Tomas Westerlund

Tomas Westerlund

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Creating a delay for my board piece?

Dec 26 2011 12:18 AM
Hi,
I am creating a board game and I want the board piece to jump to the next "box"/"slot" with a delay. For example I roll a 6 then I want the character to go to slot 1, slot 2, slot 3 etc. until slot 6 with a small delay as it was a real game.

However I can't get it to work. Right now I have this code in Draw:
[code]  protected override void Draw(GameTime gameTime)        {
            GraphicsDevice.Clear(Color.CornflowerBlue);


            // TODO: Add your drawing code here
            spriteBatch.Begin();
            spriteBatch.Draw(background, new Rectangle(0,0, 800, 800), Color.White);
            spriteBatch.End();


           


          /*  for (int x = 0; x < 40; x++)
            {
                spriteBatch.Begin();
                spriteBatch.Draw(background, gameBoard.board[x], Color.Red);
                spriteBatch.End();    
            }
          */
            spriteBatch.Begin();
            spriteBatch.Draw(benderPiece, new Rectangle((int)benderPos.X, (int)benderPos.Y, 50, 50), Color.White);
            spriteBatch.End();


            spriteBatch.Begin();
            spriteBatch.DrawString(spriteFont, dice.ToString(), new Vector2(125, 125), Color.Black);
            spriteBatch.End();


            spriteBatch.Begin();
            if (playerMoved == false && dice != 0)
            {
               
                for (int i = 0; i <= dice; i++)
                {
                                       
                    benderPos.X = gameBoard.board[benderSquarePos].X;
                    benderPos.Y = gameBoard.board[benderSquarePos].Y;
                    benderSquarePos += 1;


                   
                    spriteBatch.Draw(benderPiece, new Rectangle((int)benderPos.X, (int)benderPos.Y, 50, 50), Color.White);
                    Thread.Sleep(1250);
                   
       
                }
               
               
                dice = 0;
            }
            spriteBatch.End();


            base.Draw(gameTime);
        }
    }[/code]

However what happens is that it delays and then it the number of the dice but very fast.

How can I make so that the delay is between every movement?

I have tried to have it in the Update as well but I can't get it to work.

Best regards,
Tomas

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