I am trying to make a mechanic where the player needs to rapidly press a key on the keyboard to continue the game, if they fail then it's game over. Anyone know how to do this?
Rapid Button Press?
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Basically a series of conditional branches with waits, switches and variables for controlling.
The conditional branch checks if a key is pressed, but then you'll have to check if it is released again before counting - that is where you need to use switches and different nested conditional branches. -
Basically a series of conditional branches with waits, switches and variables for controlling.
The conditional branch checks if a key is pressed, but then you'll have to check if it is released again before counting - that is where you need to use switches and different nested conditional branches.
Is there a way to check specifically if a key has been released? Or would you just use a conditional branch to check if it's been pressed and then do stuff in the "Else" part of it? -
No, that is why you need switches and a series of conditional branches.
A key has been released if it it not pressed now but was pressed previously (as stored in the switch) -
To elaborate...something like this:
Adding a timer to it just requires another variable (and branches) to count & check how many times the loop has run. ^_^SpoilerCode:◆Control Switches：#0001 ButtonDown = OFF ◆Control Variables：#0004 Input = 0 ◆Loop ◆If：ButtonDown is ON ◆If：Button [OK] is pressed down ◆Comment：Nothing. ◆ ：Else ◆Comment：Button was pressed and released! ◆Control Switches：#0001 ButtonDown = OFF ◆Control Variables：#0004 Input += 1 ◆ ：End ◆ ：Else ◆If：Button [OK] is pressed down ◆Comment：Button is now pressed down! ◆Control Switches：#0001 ButtonDown = ON ◆ ：End ◆ ：End ◆If：Input = 10 ◆Break Loop ◆ ：Else ◆Wait：1 frame ◆ ：End ◆ ：Repeat Above ◆Text：None, Window, Bottom ： ：You escaped! \.Congratulations!
I happen to have a worked example, timed and with picture prompts, over on the Steam Workshop if you're interested. It's for battle skill input, but a couple of them use a "button mash" approach (the actual events don't require any plugins, don't worry). It may be a bit over-complicated for this purpose but here's a link if you're interested: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1287577261 -
@caethyril The link doesn't work anymore, can we find the example somewhere else?
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@Dumango - ah, I took it down after the YEP terms of use changed.
I just put it back up, with a slight change: it no longer includes the Yanfly plugins. If you just want to check out the events, no problem! If you want to playtest, you can follow the instructions on the workshop page. :kaohi:
Since the OP of this thread doesn't seem to have logged in for over 5 years...
Closing this.