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DarkBASIC Discussion / game pause mode?

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cloud
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hi i am trying to make my game pause but i don't know how i get a sort of pause screen to come up but how do i get it to pause the character movement while it's paused and how can i get it to unpause?

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oh and i found a programm on darkbasic.com and when i go to download it it's not in english and i can't find anything that tell u to downooad it it is called 3D Map Editor in the showcase part of the db site.

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Kale
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use gosubs!

first place a label at the start of your main loop (inside) then have a label outside the loop to handle the pause screen. gosub to pause when you want to pause then when finished with gosub back to start.

NOTE: this is completely untested, but should work

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cloud
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but will that stop the caracter moving.

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John H
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You could try stop object x and play object x

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Benjamin
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dont use gosubs, coz u need to return them. use branch labels

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Dr DooMer
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Okay, here's one way you can do it:

While running, your game executes a load of commands within a loop, right? This loop keeps your program confined to within a certain piece of code. Now, you can either break from this loop, to return later, when the pause button is used, or you introduce another loop within the main loop when pause is used. This second loop would just confine your program to an even smaller piece of code, preventing it from running anything else (like player movement, enemy AI, etc) until you've broken from it. Here's psuedo-code:

Start main loop
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| If paused, start paused loop
| |
| | If not paused, break from paused loop
| |
| End of pause loop
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| Main commands go here
|
End of main loop

You would probably want to add a sync and a pause screen to the paused loop, just to make it look right.

Hope this helps!

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indi
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yup creating a mini do nothing loop is the key

u can even make that loop a function


function Paws()
do
center text screen width()/2 screen height()/2,"Paused"
if escapekey() = 1 then exit
sync
loop
endfunction

http://www.lunarpixel.com

http://www.lunarpixel.com/dt/
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( yes, I know, this post is old, but it isn't a problem ^^ )

oh and i found a programm on darkbasic.com and when i go to download it it's not in english and i can't find anything that tell u to downooad it it is called 3D Map Editor in the showcase part of the db site.
I know this programm, it's made by Freddix, and it's in french. it's a programm for making 3d maps for db v1, and it work well
ask freddix if he can translate his programm in english

and for your pause, there's an easier way than kale's :


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cloud
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thanks

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