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Relay events
jes00:
What do relay events do?
keesfani:
they eat your mother.. >:)
zenloth:
Eh, the best way I can think of describing relay is as a signal almost.
If you fire a relay, you are sending a relay to whatever (direction or named brick), then on that brick you can have it do something when it receives that signal.
I hope that makes sense, I'm sure someone else can explain better, but I thought I would put a basic explanation in there.
Glider:
Example:[33] OnActivate - Self - FireRelay
[66]OnRelay - Self - PlaySound - exitWater
[3000]OnRelay - Self - FireRelay
Okay basically imagine you're spawning a music brick with music. When you click send, that's like your FireRelay it starts a sequence that repeats a loop of a sound. If it were events it would look something like this:
OnBrickSend - Self - FireRelay
[33] OnRelay - Self - Play Loop - [MusicName]
Okay so say the loop is 30 seconds long the events would carry on like this:
[30000] OnRelay - Self - FireRelay
If you are needy of more detail just ask.
The time in the square brackets is measured in MiliSeconds Thats 1000ms : 1sec.
zenloth:
--- Quote from: zenloth on February 24, 2010, 04:36:14 PM ---Eh, the best way I can think of describing relay is as a signal almost.
If you fire a relay, you are sending a signal to whatever (direction or named brick), then on that brick you can have it do something when it receives that signal.
I hope that makes sense, I'm sure someone else can explain better, but I thought I would put a basic explanation in there.
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