Well I stayed up last night reading through the Online Manual and I have sorted a lot of stuff out, the pragma_path still wont work but oh well.

I have improved the control system a lot! its much smoother than it was the only thing I have to do now is animate the model but it doesn't have a bone structure and I tried to use the manual but mine never turns out like that so could someone be kind and create a skeleton structure for the model if I upload it?

Also I have a .wmv file I want to play on startup, it plays but I would also like it so when you press enter it stops the movie and returns to the game I have in function main()

I have a seperate script for my player controls so what would I have to do in order to make ENTER stop the video? I tried



but that didnt work.

Well, I thnik you forgot to loop movie_control. It only checks 1 frame if i is pressed and then stops. Put a while(!key_i) around it.

Okay since then I have changed it a little bit, here is the new code:



so basically a movie plays that says like created by and such then a movie of clouds and the game name loops with a flashing "press enter" so I am guessing in the main.c above function main I write:


sorry for the stupid questions I am just starting to pick things up.

or as TheLiam says:
while (!key_i)
Read the code exactly, don`t forget the "!", it means it doing the loop while i is NOT pressed (key_i = 0).
But with this code the function stops if you press i once, my example works all the time....

Your code:
while (key_i)
checks the first frame if you call this function if key i is pressed and if not the function is finishing...

Hmm I put it above function main() and I get error undeclared identifier?

Maybe try this...
It's a little messy but it works and it allows the user to skip the intro movie if they want...
And, after playing the game a few times the user will want to skip the intro...
Good luck...

Put this function above the main...

var avihandle;
function play_movie()
{
avihandle = media_play ("Movies/Your_Movie.wmv", NULL, 80);
while (media_playing (avihandle) != 0)
{
if (key_any != 0) // enable interrupting the intro by any key (recommend!)
{
media_stop (avihandle);
}
wait(1);
}

}

then put this in the main...

wait(1);
avihandle = media_play ("Your_Movie.wmv", NULL, 80);
wait(1);

while(mouse_left) { wait(1); } // check to see if mouse was not being held (so you cant skip the intro movie on accident)

enable_key = OFF;
enable_mouse = OFF;
enable_joystick = OFF;
while (media_playing (avihandle) != 0)
{
if (key_any != 0) // enable interrupting the intro by any key (recommend!)
{
media_stop (avihandle);
}
wait(1);
}
enable_key = ON;
enable_mouse = ON;
enable_joystick = ON;