Chaosgamer
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A

wait for no speech

command, think about all the stuff this can do and all the things and trouble it would save us. Any comments?

I think this will be a VERY, VERY, VERY useful command in terms of cutscenes.

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Chaosgamer wrote:
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wait for no speech

command, think about all the stuff this can do and all the things and trouble it would save us. Any comments?

I think this will be a VERY, VERY, VERY useful command in terms of cutscenes.

It'd have to be strictly limited to cutscenes, 'cause otherwise we'd have timed DROD...

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Mike replied in >here< why this is not going to happen.

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hartleyhair wrote:
It'd have to be strictly limited to cutscenes, 'cause otherwise we'd have timed DROD...

Exactly--and in cutscenes, as I've been learning in the cutscene-heavy hold I'm writing, you simply time how long the speech takes and put a "wait N" in there (where N = [length of speech in milliseconds]/[milliseconds per move in the cutscene]).

But yes, as Mike says in the post Tim links to, the speech feature is designed to be something that runs independently from the move-by-move engine, so a "wait until no speech" wouldn't really work.

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I just came up with a system that might make this feature feasible. Every time a Speech command is executed during a cut scene, it adds the number of milliseconds in the speech delay to to an invisible countdown variable. On every turn of the cut scene, this countdown will decrease by the current time-per-turn. Executing a Flush Speech command, or ending the cut scene will immediately set it to zero. The wait for no speech command will basically be a command to wait until this countdown is finished.

Normally, I just add all the millisecond numbers together with a calculator, divide by the time-per-turn, and round up. But I do think this feature could be handy in case the cut scene contains conditional dialogue that might alter the length of the speech.

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I agree that might be a good workaround, but that still doesn't necessarily address one of the points of the original rejection, which was that there should be no real time DROD elements whatsoever (as the game is a turn-based puzzle and not a reflex tester).

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azb wrote:
I agree that might be a good workaround, but that still doesn't necessarily address one of the points of the original rejection, which was that there should be no real time DROD elements whatsoever (as the game is a turn-based puzzle and not a reflex tester).

And my suggestion doesn't involve anything real time. It's just a way of using pre-set time values to formulate how many turns to wait.

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Okay, I saw the part involving milliseconds and thought you were requesting a real-time feature. I'm sorry for causing confusion/misinterpreting.

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