Topic: How to make a short button mashing event in RPG Maker 2003? (Read 544 times)

Nokoi

#1 January 31, 2010, 02:18:12 am
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I have an event where I want the player to mash the enter button a certain amount of times in a time limit of 15 seconds. How can I do this? It sounds simple and must be possible, can someone give me a quick tutorial? My game is in desperate need of variety.
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#2 January 31, 2010, 02:26:36 am
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Make a parallel event with a "wait for key press" delay on your input processing. Have it add to a variable every time you press the button. Either use the built in counter, or make your own. Check the value of the variable at the end of the timer.

EDIT - Or, just use labels and the "go to label" function to take the place of the parallel.


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Nokoi

#3 January 31, 2010, 03:42:42 am
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Yeah, I'm actually kinda confused here, what exactly does a Parallel Process do? How exactly does it work?
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#4 January 31, 2010, 04:25:36 am
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Basically, they allow you run events in the background while other things are going on.
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#5 February 01, 2010, 02:55:52 am
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Quote from: Nokoi on January 31, 2010, 03:42:42 am
Yeah, I'm actually kinda confused here, what exactly does a Parallel Process do? How exactly does it work?

tip: if you don't know that, you shouldn't be doing this stuff for a while yet...
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Nokoi

#6 March 01, 2010, 11:50:19 pm
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Thanks for the help =.=

I just never used Parallel Process before... I know a bunch of the other stuff... The help file barely helps me at all anyway...

And there were many situations in the past where I would have wanted a parallel process >.>
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#7 March 04, 2010, 02:42:47 am
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Quote from: Chipotle on February 01, 2010, 02:55:52 am
tip: if you don't know that, you shouldn't be doing this stuff for a while yet...

never follow advice of this form if you ever want to move forward :)
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