Need help with time measurement during landscenes

[CouchcaptainCharles]

How can I measure the time that has elapsed DURING a landscene?

What I would like to do is make a weapon that stuns characters for a certain time, so i need to measure the time when the character was knocked out in order to reanimate him some time later.

The time attributes that i have found - environment.time and worldmap.time - always have the same value during the whole landscene. Only if you load another location does the time "jump" on.

Can anyone help ?

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

In quests_reaction.c there are `time-elapse` indicators between events - thus:

<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->LAi_ActorGoToLocator(PChar, "goto", "goto7", "", 4.0);<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->

Where 4.0 measures time in some way to create a delay.

In quests.c there are several references to time - delay and PostWait.

I don't know much about these commands (NK should know more!), but I hope this helps! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />

 

[NathanKell]

loctmptime is a float that tracks the number of something (ticks? seconds? I _think_ it's seconds but it behaves kinda weird...) elapsed since loading the location.

I've modified its handling and added a switch (so that you can have time update automatically, i.e. once/sec it increases environment.time by a second, or en masse (like in normal POTC, update on change locations).

Just do a global search for all files with locTmpTime in them.

The place you want to look at mostly is locations_loader.c, and especially the last function (which is called every once a--well, it's not exact. Somewhere between 0.`2-1`.0 or so seconds).

Note that this will not work in locations that have time disabled (if any do).

 

[CouchcaptainCharles]

Hey, thanks you two <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

That loctmptime is just what I need for the knockouts (seems to count seconds), and that "run with timedelay" will be great for a tool or function that scares enemies away.

 

[NathanKell]

You could create your own event handler to do that.
at the top of some file:
<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->#event_handler("scareaway","ScareAway_Event");<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->

later, in some file:
<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->void ScareAway_Event()

{

    int chridx = GetEventData();

    aref chr = GetCharacter(chridx);

    string group = GetEventData();

    string locator = GetEventData();

    LAi_ActorRunToLocator(chr, group, locator, "", 10.0); //tweak last value to taste

}<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->

and lastly, when you want to create the event:
(in wherever your code is that generates the runaway need)
<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->int chridx = Character_index_you_want_to_run;

string locator = locator_to_run_to;

string group = that_locator_group;

float delay = milliseconds_to_wait_before_running;

PostEvent("scareaway", delay, "lss", chridx, group, locator);<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->