problems pausing game

jikbar · Post by **jikbar** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:38 pm

im using a boolean variable to control whether or not to process input, movement, ai, etc. depending on if the game is paused or not

the problem is that whenever the game is paused, everything freezes (like is supposed to) except for my orbital drone guns because they use a FlyCircle animator

which function in irrlicht controls the update of animators?

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:40 pm

One way to fix this is to remove the animator when you pause then re-add it when you unpause.

jikbar · Post by **jikbar** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:17 pm

thanks anyway but i figured out a solution

instead of having the scene node control the animators, i have my CEnemy class control its animators. then, during the CEnemy.Update() call, the object calls animateNode() on each of its animators, passing the scene node as a pointer

the Update() method only gets called when the game is unpaused so it works! and if i recreated the flycircle animator every time the game was unpaused, the nodes would revert to their original position