Coding timers

[aghostcat 5]

Coding timers in VX Ace, how do they fricking work?

 

I tried using $game_timers.set_timer in my code but nothing, nada, zilch.

 

The script I am working on is in the script editor instead of the script event. After this I should be able to do much more with what I have planned, hopefully.

  def update_t7
    $game_timer.set_timer(10, [$game_switches[065] = true])
    if $game_switches[065] == false then
      @vy = 512
    end
    if $game_switches[065] == true then
      @vy = 000
    end
  end
end

Edited April 15, 2016 by aghostcat

[Aletheos 41]

Looking at the default Game_Timer script, I find no reference to a set_timer method. There is, however, a start(count) method.

I have a question about your code. Maybe it is that I don't understand Ruby well enough yet, but it looks like you're giving the

set_timer method two arguments:

 The integer value 10

and

 an array containing the value in $game_switches[65], assigned the boolean value true

every frame, I'm guessing, since this is in a method called update_t7.

 

The question is this. Do you intend for the @vy variable to always be 0?

 

There seem to be a lot going on that we don't see. Are you using some custom timer script? If so, it might be a good idea to tell

us the name of the script.

[aghostcat 5]

To be honest I'm not really using a custom timer script. I been trying to figure out how to code with timers, apparently a lot of places don't say much about how you can fiddle with them through script. The @vy variable will be stopped, and reactivated at the end of the battle for a character in a danmaku mini-game in my game.

[Aletheos 41]

Maybe I'm completely off here, but it looks as though you set the $game_switches[65] to true, then ask if it's false, which it will never be.

Edited April 15, 2016 by Aletheos

[aghostcat 5]

Ah, is there a way to properly get a timer to change variables and switches through code by the way?

[Aletheos 41]

Trying to decypher what your code means. Are you saying you want switch number 65 to be set to true(on) when the ten second timer expires?

[aghostcat 5]

Yes, I am ^^;

[Aletheos 41]

Override the on_expire method, is one way...

class Game_Timer
  def on_expire
    #Make stuff happen here
  end
end

...but I think it would be simpler to use events for this.

A simple conditional branch that asks for the timer value

being less than or equal to 0, should do the trick.