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Geeky Technical Blog - Shit Malfunctioning

  • Daria
  • 01/21/2013 09:22 PM
  • 1067 views
ARGH!

Okay, so I set up a day and night cycle that adjusts the lighting/fog effects accordding to the time of day. No big deal, wasn't difficult and quite frankly - I followed a tutorial. I figure why reinvent the wheel if I can save myself some time?

Strangely enough the timer function didn't play well with my on screen enemies. If the timer happened to roll over during a battle it would cause the battle to exit and restart. Since I set the time to restart every 10 seconds for testing purposes this happened CONSTANTLY.

So again no big deal I figured I would simply pause the timer whenever a battle was initiated. This worked like a charm with one small caveat: the timer could only resume after the player either defeated the monster, or escaped the encounter. I had no way to flip the timer switch back on if the player simply outran the enemy on the map.

So again I figured I would just set a failsafe switch to turn the timer back on whenever the player exited the map. For the life of me I couldn't get this to fucking work! Because switches all execute at the same time I couldn't turn off the enemy encounter switch and have the timer switch "see" it before the player teleported to another map - without a functioning timer. AND if I tried to set a wait command to buffer inbetween the two it cause ANOTHER bug with my variable map teleportion that sent to player hurdling through space to a totally random coordinate!

UGH!

Couple hours of trial and error later I finally sorted things out though. Had to change a parallel triggering common event to one that called from within a map event. So instead of constantly triggering, it only happened exactly when I needed it to.

Only issue now is that the timer restarts after battles and when you leave the map. Not a big deal when it's only 10 seconds long, but when I set it to a more realistic 20 minutes or so it's going to be constantly prolonging my game days. So now I have to figure out if a. If that's a big deal gameplaywise and b. if there's a way to pause the timer or record it's setting and resume from a variable? Oh well at least the game breaking shit's been handled.

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LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
01/23/2013 10:17 PM
I made a present for you. 

# Non-combat timer.  

# If switch #50 is on, timers work normally, but if 
# switch #50 is off, timers will only count down when
# the player is not in combat.  After battle it will
# pick up where it left off.

# To use a different switch instead of switch #50, change the 50 to a different number in the script below.

class Game_System
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Frame Update
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def update
    # reduce timer by 1
    if @timer_working and @timer > 0 and ($scene.is_a?(Scene_Battle) or $game_switches[50] == true)
      @timer -= 1
    end
  end
end


No credit needed; I just added an extra conditional branch to the default timer script.
Daria
71
01/24/2013 04:20 AM
Aww... That's sweet. I actually solved this issue by just coding an ingame clock using incrementing variables. But I'll store this away for future use if I ever want to use the prebuilt timer again.

But really, thank you.

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