How to orchesrate a series of effects?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi,

In my game, an item’s effect is to pause the game, fade-in a a white screen, show an animation, move that object to several locations on the screen, fade-out the white screen, un-pause the music and un-pause the physic but my problem is how to do chain them.

I wanted to do all of them with timer.performWithDelay and it’s what I’ve done so far:

physics.pause() sfxManager.pauseMusic() timer.performWithDelay(10, function() whiteScreen.alpha = whiteScreen.alpha + 0.1 end, 20) timer.performWithDelay(10, function() whiteScreen.alpha = whiteScreen.alpha - 0.1 end, 20) timer.performWithDelay(3000, function() sfxManager.playMusic() end) timer.performWithDelay(3000, function() physics.start() end)

But since I’m using timer for fade-in, I can’t chain other effects to it since they will start at once.

Thanks.

#2

Why not use transition.to() and use its onComplete to chain another effect and use timers when necessary to run things that have to happen outside the transition.

#3

That’s good, only if I could chain timers, instead of starting them all at once and offset them.

#4

Why not use transition.to() and use its onComplete to chain another effect and use timers when necessary to run things that have to happen outside the transition.

#5

That’s good, only if I could chain timers, instead of starting them all at once and offset them.