[Solved] Stage coding problem

[Insigniawarfare]

How do you change the timing of when you want the animation to start.
I have buildings shaking up and down like its about to collapse in my stage but i want to change the timing of when i want the building to start shaking is their a way to do that.

[Cobra Caddie]

There are a few ways to do it. But the easiest way is to give the first frame of animation(before the buildings start to shake) a long animation time. Like say if you wanted it to wait 10 seconds:

1, 0, 0, 0, 600

Then, just type "loopstart" after that if you wanna have a looped animation:

1, 0, 0, 0, 600
loopstart
1, 1, 0, 0, 10
1, 2, 0, 0, 10
1, 3, 0, 0, 10
1, 4, 0, 0, 10

In the example I gave, the animation will play the first frame for 10 seconds, then play the animation below it for the rest of the match.

[mh777]

BGControllers are your friend in this case. Cybaster's tutorial has enough to get you started.   Basically, it involves setting up a CtrlID for the element/object that you want to control, and linking it to a CtrlDef.

The CtrlDef part will look something like this, for example's sake:

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[BG object]
type = normal
spriteno = 0,0
id = number

[BGCtrlDef whatever]
CtrlID = whatever number you assigned for the object

[BGCtrl shake]
time = the number of ticks you want to start the shaking
type = enable


edit: Caddie's way works, too, and it's not as complicated.

[Insigniawarfare]

Thank you both and yes i was trying to do bg ctrl