Movement during pause

Hey all,

I was just wondering what you guys to do allow movement (say, motion within the pause menu) while the game is at timescale = 0?

I really have not figured out the best way to do this. Of course I can just eliminate dt from my expressions, but I feel dirty doing that ;)

What do you guys think?

i think you should make a group for pause which will stops everything , stop keys, animations , layers...

(this is the way i do it ) ^^

zsangerous

That seems like an awful lot of work when you can just pause the game effectively in one event, setting timescale to 0.

I would put all sprites into one family, and then

If something -> set "family" time scale to 0 ^^

Hmm, that might actually work!

Good idea!

You can selectively make objects move when the time scale is 0 with the "set object time scale" system action. Then you can use the Sprite.dt expression to get dt.

For example if you have a sprite with the sine behavior.

This would pause everything else besides the sprite.

     system: set time scale to 0
     system: set sprite time scale to 1.0

every tick:
     Text: set text to sprite.dt]start of layout:
     system: set time scale to 0
     system: set sprite time scale to 1.0

every tick:
     Text: set text to sprite.dt

Didn't know that sprite.dt existed! There you go. Heh.