Castle Paradox

[a person]

Here's the deal. I made this script that works. If you press the left key, an NPC walks left, right key, the NPC walks right, but I had it set as when key is pressed script.

NOW I am trying to implement it into a forever loop so I can have other things happen (like your guy animate while not walking and such). But when I put on the while loop like so:

while (play==true) do (# this is the NPC walking stuff, which works #)

It doesn't lett me push the keys and make the NPC walk. Why does this happen?

Is there a way I can make a forever loop that'll allow the player to still push keys and such?

I tried doing a for loop like this:

for (play,10,0,0) do(# NPC stuff)

But it still didn't work, same problem. Why?

please help because it is really annoying!!!!!!

[Cube]

For loops aren't exactly what you'd want to use for something like this, so I'll just do the while loop . So, here's how it ought to work:

[T-Master]

You might want to include a break condition in that.

[Cube]

Oh, well yeah. Of course, the break doesn't nessisarily need to be in the loop itself of course... Just somewhere... Anywhere. Considering he did the condition for the loop argument correctly I'd have to assume he knew that already .

[TMC]

If you wrote

for (play,10,0,0) do(# NPC stuff)

in your script, when it is run the HS interpreter will simply skip over it, so that won't work.

Yes, you see, the reason you need a wait command is that every time game.exe comes across a wait command, it takes a break from running scripts and does everything else, for example checking what keys are pressed, moving npcs and updating. Without it, game will smply run your while loop for ever, and will never ever refresh the screen.
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[a person]

Yeah, thanks, I couldn't quite understand it. I thought that the plotscipt, when it came to a "if key is pressed" command it would the check to see if it is pressed at that time. Thanks alot.