making a blinking effect

digitalzero

I have a game that you will be invincible for a minute when u first start the stage.... When you are invincible you blink on and off.... I have a lot of actors that I have to do this for... I have made a game boolean attribute labeled invincible... And I have a index attribute labeled blinking... Now what lol I'm just trying to find the easiest way to do this and make sure the actors alpha color is 1 at the end cause sometimes it does not show up because the alpha color is 0

jigglybean

you could do a small 2 frame animation with a rule 'if blinking = true then animate'

AlchimiaStudios

Like after the blinking logic ends? What about

When blinking true> do blinking stuff
Otherwise> change alpha to 1

KillerPenguinStudios

hey @digitalzero,

what I have done in the past is use a timer and say when blinking is false, every 0.01 seconds change alpha to 1

or create a rule that says:

when blinking is false & when self alpha is 0;

change self.alpha to 1

just a couple ideas!

Socks

@digitalzero said:
I have a game that you will be invincible for a minute when u first start the stage.... When you are invincible you blink on and off.... I have a lot of actors that I have to do this for... I have made a game boolean attribute labeled invincible... And I have a index attribute labeled blinking... Now what lol I'm just trying to find the easiest way to do this and make sure the actors alpha color is 1 at the end cause sometimes it does not show up because the alpha color is 0

When invincible is true:
Constrain alpha to 1000*sin( self.Time *2000)
Otherwise: Change alpha to 1

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Adding or subtracting from the constrain equation changes the ratio of blink on to blink off, leaving like it is means 50:50 blink on blink off, adding increases the amount of on, subtracting increases the amount of off . . . so . . .

Constrain alpha to 1000*sin( self.Time *2000)-900

. . . will give you short pulses of visibility, whereas . . .

Constrain alpha to 1000*sin( self.Time *2000)+900

. . . will give you short pulses of invisibility.

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Random blinking: (like a broken neon light) . . .

400 * sin( self.Time * 2000)+ 576 * cos( self.Time * 768)

digitalzero

Thanks so much for the suggestions you all... I will give them a shot when I get off of work... Thanks you guys