Castle Paradox

[alphawolf]

I have an idea for a speed bar- a bar that will appear on the top left side
of the screen, that increases every second or so, when a button is held
down it will decrease and the player will dash (but when the bar is empty
the player cannot dash)

Any ideas of how to implement this? I'm assuming it will get deep into
plotscripting, timers, conditionals, etc, but I'm okay with all that
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[Bob the Hamster]

You can use the scripts from Escape the Wolf if you want. they do something very similar to what you are trying to do.

Making a button that lets you dash is pretty simple. There is an example script here: http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Scripts:Dash

You just need to add a meter, and make the meter shrink when you are dashing, and disable dashing when the meter is empty.

Really this is just a global variable. Maybe you start it off at 50, and subtract 1 each time you take a step while dashing.

The meter is just a few slices that visually display the value of the variable.

I suggest you start off without a meter, and just use the "show value" command to display the variable. That way you can get the dashing part working correctly before you worry about the meter display.

For the meter, I would suggest two slices, one for the outside border of the meter. it's size and position never need to change. The second slice is a child of the first one, and it represents the colored part of the meter.

You can use "set timer" to make a meter display script update once every tick. The meter display script simply checks the global variable, and adjusts the size of the meter slice.

[alphawolf]

Thanks a bunch
I will certianly get on that! And I already had the original dash script (but not being able to find an inbetween for speeds 5 and 10, I wanted to still give the player a challenge while dashing)
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