Scripts / Prompts disappear too fast

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tomjscott
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Posted: 5th May 2014 06:24
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I'm doing some custom storyinzone scripts and am adding text prompts, but they only appear for a fraction of a second and then disappear. Here is an example.







At first I had the prompt after the sound, but then thought it disappeared quickly because the object was getting destroyed immediately afterwards. I thought putting it before the sound playing would cause it to pause as long as the sound was playing. However, I suspect that sound playing gets done async anyway. So, is there any way to make sure the prompt stays on screen longer?
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Posted: 5th May 2014 13:45
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using a timer works pretty well for now.



would like to see an updated prompt in future with a varible time function

i.e. Prompt("text here" , 2) would display the text for 2 seconds

although i guess prompts will be ignored completely in future for real text interface?

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Posted: 5th May 2014 16:14
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I have almost no experience with scripting in Reloaded and even less in the original FPS Creator. I read somewhere else that the only functions available right now are found in the global.lua file and I don't see a timer function there. If you have details on how to use a timer then I would be grateful for that.
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Posted: 5th May 2014 21:49
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check out this from avram https://bitbucket.org/Avram/fpsc-r-toolkit/wiki/aTimer



the download is at the bottom of the main wiki page or here https://bitbucket.org/Avram/fpsc-r-toolkit/wiki/Installation



it's very simple to use if you follow his examples as guides

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Posted: 5th May 2014 22:16
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Thanks. I actually found his thread on farming this morning and saw the timer stuff. I guess I need to look at basic Lua functionality a bit more as there is obviously a lot more I can do in just pure code than I imagined.
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You don't even need a timer really. Just make the text appear within a certain distance of the trigger object. That is all I did on my farming scripts to get the info to display until you moved away or clicked.



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Posted: 24th May 2014 16:59
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Yep. My problem was that I put the prompt in a story zone script, which has a destroy call. So the story script triggers, but then just gets destroyed and goes away.

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Quote: "You don't even need a timer really. Just make the text appear within a certain distance of the trigger object. That is all I did on my farming scripts to get the info to display until you moved away or clicked."




yes and no, it's ok if you only want 1 line of text but what if you need more?

or if like tomjscott says, you wanted to destroy the entity?

it's good to learn using a timer because it can be very useful for many things

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