Hello, my enemy comes out of cover after random seconds wait(-integer(random(10))). But wait stops the whole function animation etc for that amount of time. How to make him perform athor things like animation etc while wait for the some amount of time before coming out of cover? Thankyou

wait(-integer(random(9)) + 1);
maby should fix that
sorry for my english

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Congratulations, you just discovered what wait does.
How should it know that the only thing you want is to preserve the current state but nothing else?
The solution: Wait only one frame but check every time if the 10 seconds have already passed, then trigger the state change of the ENTITY

To accomplish that increase an arbitrary skill, f.i. skill10 by time_step.
my.skill10 += time_step;
Every second my.skill10 will increase by 16 (because the engine time scale is "ticks"). That means if your skill is above 160, 10 seconds have passed:
if(my.skill10 > 160) { get out of cover }

Alternatively, you could increase by 1/16*time_step per frame and my.skill10 will equal to the seconds that have passed (it could be better to use time_frame instead).

Or, move the other behaviors you want to keep going to other functions. I.e.:

You probably have:


Try moving your animation code and your other code to other functions, and the engine's multitasking should kick in.



Give it a try?

Thank you superku very much you have always better solutions and very helpful.
But i got another problem. how to ignore a key once it is pressed. I mean once you pressed the key_space it should continue the function ignoring if u kept space key pressed? While(key_space)wait(1); will simply not run the func till u release it. Thanl you

Any one?

var key_space_released = 0;

...
if(key_space) {
if(key_space_released) {
key_space_released = 0;
do something
}
}
else { key_space_released = 1; }

It's not as hard as you think, but takes too long to explain, create a variable/skill to handle it, use like wait(-time) in a function that changes the variable/skill.

Bad example, I know. Hard to explain.