Help with timers in GECK

[tacomarine]

So I've been chugging away at a mod I've been meaning to release for almost two years now, and I've been becoming familiar with more advanced scripting in GECK. The thing I haven't been able to do, however, is create a working timer. I've tried the methods that were recommended by the GECK page, but none have worked for me for some reason.

This is the one I tried to use:

 

 

begin gamemode   if timer < 5      set timer to timer + GetSecondsPassed   else      ;5 seconds have passed, do something special      set timer to 0   endifend

 

 

This doesn't work for me (unless I have to actually call my float timer, which would be monumentally lame) and even if it did it would react really clunky for some of the stuff I want to do over weeks.

 

My question is this: Does anyone know of a reliable way to time something to happen and use that as a timer for a script effect? Like, for instance, an NPC randomly speaking lines?

Thank you in advance

 

EDIT: This isn't regarding companion dialogues, the example I gave was for timing unrelated dialogue blurbs. Another example would be telling someone to build something and having a timer for them to build it

[DoctaSax]

Well, that should work, so let's have a look at your actual script maybe?

[tacomarine]

Well, that should work, so let's have a look at your actual script maybe?

 

Sorry about the delay! Must've missed the notification.

 

heres the actual code that I was testing.

 

begin GameMode

    if MirandaDeltWith != 1

        if    MirandaTalk < 30

            set MirandaTalk to MirandaTalk + getSecondsPassed

        elseif    MirandaTalk >= 30

                MirandaREF.SayTo MirandaREF, 0n0MirandaStoreConvo

                set MirandaTalk to 0

        endif

    endif

end

 

 

 

This is a companion before she joins; she is supposed to be talking to herself with those lines, and there are multiple lines used at random continuing until the player recruits her.

 

Like I said, I also want something that will work for multiple days as well. IIRC getdayspassed references the total time that's elapsed and runs into problems somewhere- I've redone the code a couple times, too. If i can find any of my old ones I'll edit them in. Thank you in advance for looking at this for me. Normally I'd look at other peoples work, but my GECK crashes when I load up most anyone elses mods

 

EDIT: I do dumb stuff sometimes... when I put it to the backburner I set the code up to never fire and didn't fix it before posting it in a troubleshooting forum... That's the actual code now.

 

The problem I had with this was that it fired all the lines instantly and wouldn't stop; and I figured it was a bad timer because I could fix it by setting mirandatalk to getseconds passed, so it never fired.

 

[DoctaSax]

Still not seeing the problem. Can you confirm that MirandaTalk is a float?

[tacomarine]

Still not seeing the problem. Can you confirm that MirandaTalk is a float?

 

I have it as an int variable. Please don't tell me that was my problem...

[Guest]

set MirandaTalk to MirandaTalk + getSecondsPassed

 

That's better be a float, yes.

GetSecondsPassed is supposed to get a value more or less similar to the time passed since the previous execution of the script, which in most cases for object scripts is 1/fps, about 0.02-0.03.

When a Int == float, it'll be rounded to the lower value, so probably MirandaTalk will always remain to its original value, without increasing, due to the small value of GetSecondsPassed.

[tacomarine]

set MirandaTalk to MirandaTalk + getSecondsPassed

 

That's better be a float, yes.

GetSecondsPassed is supposed to get a value more or less similar to the time passed since the previous execution of the script, which in most cases for object scripts is 1/fps, about 0.02-0.03.

When a Int == float, it'll be rounded to the lower value, so probably MirandaTalk will always remain to its original value, without increasing, due to the small value of GetSecondsPassed.

 

I figured it'd be something simple. Thanks, I'll test that out when I get back home

[tacomarine]

*deep sigh* well, I read the part that said they were both stored as floats. Holy shit I can't believe I missed that.