Better cooldown in Action RPG Framework

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Jun 2 2012, 8:01 am
Action RPG Framework by Forum_account
A framework for developing action RPGs.
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It's not exactly like this code you linked to, but now it will be based off of world.time so there aren't any spawns or sleeps associated with using cooldowns.
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This should give you the idea of what I'm thinking of.

The current cooldown system uses spawn() to clear a cooldown state. What Jtgibson's ActionLock system does is set the value of cooldowns to (world.time + duration). Whenever you check if the cooldown is finished, you compare it with the current world.time, so you don't need to spawn() anything off.

I think you could also allow for setting a cooldown's duration to -1 to make it permanent instead of relying on time.
#1 Jun 2 2012, 9:01 am
I had gone back and forth on that. Since you'll use procs to check and clear cooldowns it doesn't matter how they work. I didn't like using spawn since it could cause problems if you cleared a cooldown early.

I'll probably make this change in the next update since I'm using cooldowns for more things, like limiting how often enemies check for a target.
#2 Jun 5 2012, 8:26 am
Forum_account resolved issue with message:
It's not exactly like this code you linked to, but now it will be based off of world.time so there aren't any spawns or sleeps associated with using cooldowns.