A Waiting Script

[cyber-menace]

I have a question. What would I have to type in order for one part of my script to wait until the previous action stops before it starts

Example: Action 1
Next Action Delay
Action 2 (Begins when Action 1 is finished)

How would I do this?

[Fredrik]

What scripting language?

[cyber-menace]

Zdoom

[Fredrik]

<do action 1>
delay(35 * <time in seconds>);
<do action 2>

Is one way.

[Epyo]

delay(how many tics);

There are 35 tics in a second. So delay(35); would be one second. Delay(70); would be 2 seconds, and so on.


I have been DEFEATORD!!!

[boris]

If your actions affect sectors, you could use tagwait. tagwait takes one argument: the tag of the sector; so if you want to wait until sector with tag 1 in inactive, you'd use tagwait(1);.
Or you could split your actions into severl scripts and use scriptwait. I never used it myself, but something like this should work:

script 1 (void)
{
 ACS_Execute(2, 0, 0, 0, 0); // call script 2
 scriptwait(2); // wait until script 2 is finished
 // do some other fancy stuff here
}

script 2 (void)
{
 // do some fancy stuff here
}

[Ichor]

I could never get scriptwait to work right for some reason. I always use tagwait and polywait (wait for a certain polyobject to stop moving).

[boris]

I just made a little example wad. It uses both tagwait and scriptwait: d00m.info/scriptwait.wad]download here.

[cyber-menace]

Well with all this info that I'm recieving I'm finally almost done my map! I'm on the last area! Now I just need to add a few more sectors and one more script and vola I'm done. I should finish it sometime today.