Freezing character

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Feb 16 2003, 10:24 am
Anyone know how to stop a character for a given amount of time?
Example...
A user walks into a room, takes one step forward and loses all controll of his/her character's movement and verbs if possible, for say 5 seconds. Once this has occured, the area in which he/she was froze, is deleted so he/she does not get frozen again.

Thanks to any help, if more info is needed please ask, and an example is in any one of the pokemon games, some points in the game, the user is frozen, while say garry comes and takes a pokeball. Just for reference.
Feb 16 2003, 10:35 am
 
turf/LoseMove
      Enter(mob/P)
            P.Freeze(50) //50 ticks = 5 sec

bom/var/frozen = 0

mob/proc/Freeze(t) //t as time
      src.fozen = 1 //set frozen to 1
      usr:verbs = null //i dont know if this will work
      spawn(t) //wait for specified time
            src.forzen = 0 //set it to 0 so they can move
            usr.verbs += typesof(/mob/verb) //add all the verbs under /mob/verb

mob/proc/Move()
      if(src.frozen) return //if they asre frozen stop here
      else return ..() //if not let them move


Feb 16 2003, 10:50 am
In response to Weedman
usr:verbs = null //i dont know if this will work

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!

A colon is not only wrong, but totally unneeded here! Not only that, but you're using usr in a proc!

mob/proc/Move()

NO! That will cause a compiler error, because Move() is already defined as a proc. You don't need the proc/ in there.


turf/LoseMove
Enter(mob/P)
P.Freeze(50) //50 ticks = 5 sec

NO! This will just lead to runtime errors, even if it compiles fine. Not only that, but you will be prevented from entering the turf. Use Entered(), not Enter(). Enter() is a proc that returns TRUE or FALSE and is used to determine if a mob can enter a turf. So change it to Entered(), and have an if(ismob(P)) check.

Now that I'm done pointing out various problems (Oh, and it's mob, not bom), I have one more addition: If you want it only to happen once, then set a flag on the mob (mob/var/frozenAtTurf1 = 0) to 1, and check if it's 0 before freezing it. If it is, set it to 1. That way, it will only happen once.