[SOLVED] How to make my character blink?

[Monsieur OUXX]

I usually hate having to create the characters in the Editor, because I realize views never end up being used like I thought they would.
And that's what's happening again, to my great distress
How do you use the blinking view?
At the moment I have :
- a normal view, which is only one single loop with one single sprite( it's for a completely static character)
- a blinking view, which is only one loop with one sprite (the sprite with the eyes closed)

I thought the blinking view would be called once in a while, but I'm probably mistaken on how it works.
I've read somewhere it's only for Sierra-style speech. Is that still true?
Maybe I should use the idle view instead? In that case, could you tell me how I can increase how often it's triggered? At the moment it happens very rarely.

[Khris]

The blinking view is supposed to show just the eyes blink. It is drawn on top of the current view (only) when Sierra-style speech is used.
So basically the portrait will keep talking, and in addition the eyes are animating.

[NickyNyce]

If you did use the idle view, you could place this anywhere you want, game start, room load...

Code: AGS

cMoss.SetIdleView(26, 250);

 
26 is the view, 250 is the time that it's executed.

If you had more then one frame in the view, you could increase the speed of the animation by using -5 for the delay in each frame to make the animation faster.

[Monsieur OUXX]

you could place this anywhere

Code: AGS

cMoss.SetIdleView(26, 250);

 

Thanks! I never noticed the second parameter to that function. Solved!