Making events run WHILE scrolling text is running

Hi All,

I am trying to get events to run while scrolling text is being displayed but the events wait to the text to finish. There is no "wait for completion" tick box lick other things have and I was wondering if anyone has any ideas?

It depends mostly on the specifics of what you're accomplishing - when I want events to move while text is going, I use parallel process events to move the events and a separate event to show the text.

it's for my intro, I am displaying a picture at 50% transparency with scrolling text above the picture and moving events below but the events only start once the text has finished.

I am trying to make the events do things using variables. Every time the variable increases by 1 I want the event to do something different.

So why not do what I mentioned above, make a parallel process (or multiple parallel processes) and have them control the event movement while a separate event controls your picture display and text scroll?

It seems to only half work. If I change the variable before the text starts, the event does what I want but if I change the variable during the text it waits for the text to finish before it does anything.

Right, like I said above, it would be much easier if we have the specifics of what you're trying to accomplish. The good news is whatever you want to achieve, we can figure it out, just post some pics and explain it to us and we can help.

Done it!! It took a lot of thinking, I had to swap events rather than increase the variable but this is what I was able to do:

Nice work!

So I saw the video - looks nice.


And I was wondering - you used events to scroll the text right?


Did you ever consider a second image with a multiple parallax thing going on?


But what did you actually do again?


Clearly it worked. [=

I have a series of events running on a small map.

A picture is 50% opacity on the top,

Then, I have scrolling text on top of that.

It was a tad confusing to set up but I really like the outcome.

And the scrolling text is another event with a show text command?


And yes, the outcome is super. [=

yep, they are all parallel process events. I have an event that first calls the picture and then shows scrolling text.