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All righty, so here's the deal:

I'm putting together a quick little credits sequence, using the SetMessage function (I find that it looks nicer than gimping/photoshopping them), and it's not really turning out. There are five messages altogether.

Code:
void ToBlack(string &in asTimer)

{

    FadeOut(5);

    TeleportPlayer("PlayerStartArea_11");

    AddTimer("", 5, "CreditsRoll");

}

void CreditsRoll(string &in asTimer)

{

    for(int i = 1; i <= 5; i++) {

        FadeIn(5);    

        SetMessage("Messages", "credits_"+i, 5);

        AddLocalVarInt("Roll", 1);

        if (GetLocalVarInt("Roll") == 5)

             {

                RemoveTimer("CreditsRoll");

             }

            }

    AddTimer("", 5, "CreditsRoll");

}

Each message is named credits_1 and is sequential, but for the life of me, it's just not coming together, and I betcha it's an easy fix too. -.-

You're using the for-loop in an interesting way.

I'm not sure what you were picturing, but I would do something like

PHP Code:
void CreditsRoll(string &in asTimer)
{
AddLocalVarInt("Roll", 1) //Add 1 to a variable, so it keeps rising.

SetMessage("Messages", "credits_"+GetLocalVarInt("Roll"), 5) //Show the message, with the added variable.

if(GetLocalVarInt("Roll") < 5) //If less than 5, add another timer
{
AddTimer("", 5, "CreditsRoll");
}
} 

EDIT: Forgot a category in SetMessage

A for-loop does not have any delay to it. If you set it to loop 10 times, it will finish all those 10 times before anything else happens in the game. If it's process-heavy, it will freeze the game rather than do it delayed.

Hiphiphooray!! Thank you Flawless, that worked perfectly!

(08-22-2015, 07:07 PM)AGP Wrote: [ -> ]Hiphiphooray!! Thank you Flawless, that worked perfectly!

Aw yiss!

Great to hear!

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