Pause actor's movement

Dooki

Hey all,

I have a free moving actor. Where I click the actor moves. He's a thief who travels from lock to lock and opens them. I want him to pause when collides with a lock before moving on to the next. I have it set up so that when he comes to a lock a progress bar animation plays (7 sec). So, I want him to pause, or not be able to leave, for 7 sec. I've played with putting a 7 sec timer into the mix but it does nothing. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Dooki

..Oh, I also have a walking animation for this spy. Is there a way to spawn a different image (say crouching) while is in paused mode, then kick back in the walking animation when he's on the move again? Thanks!

quantumsheep

You need a variable to distinguish between between normal walking and colliding with a lock.

Let's call it 'lockpause'.

In a controller actor, put in the rule:
If actor collides with lock,
Then for 7 seconds let lockpause = true
Otherwise lockpause = false

On your main character, have the rule:

If lockpause = true
Play 7 second crouching animation.

In the 'otherwise' section put all your rules for normal movement and animation.

That should do it.

Hope it helps,

QS

scitunes

QS, I'm impressed with your restraint on this one!

quantumsheep

Heh - it's not really the issue at hand though, mate

QS

scitunes

When I see "pause" in the thread title and your name as the latest response I made an assumption. I should have known you are more complex than that! My bad!

quantumsheep

I think the term 'fiddly' is more appropriate

Dooki

Wow, thanks QS! Gotta put the kids to bed but will this out. Thanks again!

Dooki

OK, I tried to set this up but got a black screen. Here is what i did:

Controller-
Rule
When actor collides with lock
-Timer 7 sec
--Change Attribute: game.lockpause=true
--Otherwise
---Change Attribute: game.lockpause=false

Main actor-
Rule
Attribute: game.lockpause= true
-Timer 7 sec
--Animate (add images)
--Otherwise
---Animate (Original walking animation)

Note: Prior to this I had my animation attribute by itself. I found that if I included it within my movement rule the animation did not play.

Thanks again!

Dooki

Can anyone help me on this one? I am not sure if I understood GS's suggestion correctly. As is, I get a black screen when previewing. Thanks!

scitunes

Black screen usually means you have a syntax error. Check your parentheses, make sure you got all of you non-numerical stuff from pull down menus (you should never type in attribute names or "random" or "max" etc. Did you have an attribute that you deleted but left a rule in that calls for it?

Dooki

Hey Thanks!
Yup, I typed in "true,false." I did not have any attributes that used parentheses. Should I have? Can you tell me if what I set up (above) is indeed what QS recommended? Thanks!