[NGTM-1R]

My problem is very simple: send-message-list is not functioning properly. The messages are being played later then they should.

An example:

when
-time-elapsed
-0
--send-message-list
-Athens Station
High
Start Chatter 1
0
-#Alpha 1
High
Start Chatter 2
5000
-Alpha 4
High
Start Chatter 3
10000


So, the first message should show up at zero, the second at 5 seconds, and the third at 10 seconds. But it doesn't work that way. Instead...



The first shows at zero, the second at 5, and the third at 16 seconds. And then this screws everything up because I've got a pair of training messages worked in with the dialogue that are showing up at their proper times (20 and 30 seconds).

So...wtf is going on here?

[WMCoolmon]

IIRC, send-message-list starts counting down after a message is "finished".

[Singh]

yup. Its a delay from the previous message, not from zero.

[NGTM-1R]

But it hasn't always been that way, correct? Because there have been other times I have worked it to coordinate properly with other events, without this kind of problem.

[Singh]

As far as I can remember its been like this........

[Akalabeth Angel]

It's always been the delay between messages as far as I know.

[TrashMan]

So it's basicly

--send-message-list
-Athens Station
High
Start Chatter 1
0     <-------- sent 0 sec after event is ture

-#Alpha 1
High
Start Chatter 2
5000   <------- sent 5 seconds after message Start Chatter1 begins


-Alpha 4
High
Start Chatter 3
10000    <----- start 10 seconds after  start chatter 2 begins



So what you have to do it figre how long a message lasts

If Start Cahtter 1 is  "Listen up guys..." then 2 seconds is more then enough to put under Start Chatter 2, as reading that text out loud doesn't take more then that.

[DarthWang]

Change the 10,000 to 5,000.