Pausing the game without using Time:Pause()

[wardtf]

So I want the game to pause (and specifically FPSplayer.pfb) when

 

self.currentState == "menu" or "splash"

 

So I want the moving gun animation to stop, I want it to ignore key presses and mouse movement, I want it to ignore mouse clicks. Basically, I want it to freeze up when app.currentState is not "game"

 

Any ideas?

[Rick]

In App.lua try only calling the following when not paused.

 

if self.paused == false then

--Update the world

self.world:Update()

end

 

Now you can pause and unpause with the self.paused variable and setting it to true. Define that variable as false in App:Start(). Note that this would stop ALL entity scripts so your paused code can't be inside entity scripts but would need to be in App.lua.

[wardtf]

Note that this would stop ALL entity scripts so your paused code can't be inside entity scripts but would need to be in App.lua.

 

So would this prevent a 'menu chamber' with moving lights from rendering?

[Rick]

Yes, most likely as you probably have that in an entity script in that 1 world and that would no longer be getting called.