[solved] This was supposed to be a door-opening sequence

[the.Axolotl]

Edit: Solved, leaving this here as a record of my brief descent into timer psychosis.

So... I just discovered Bribe’s precise Lua wait system … and I was today years old when I realized it solves exactly the problem I’ve been wrestling with for eons.

Unfortunately, my map is fully JASS, so switching to Lua now would basically nuke everything.

Which brings me to my actual problem: I’m trying to convert a simple entrance sequence , but doing it with step-based timers quickly turns into a too much for 10 secs of gameplay.

I do already have a cinematic engine (step + delay + loop system), but I’m not sure if it's suitable( but I feel this is my safest option for now) for gameplay sequences like this.

So my question is:

? Is reusing a cinematic step system the correct approach for co-op-safe sequencing, or is there a cleaner pattern I’m missing here in JASS.

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Also, I considered something like this:

function DelayedAction takes nothing returns nothing
    // delayed logic here
endfunction

function DoSomething takes nothing returns nothing
    local timer t = CreateTimer()

    // do A
    call BJDebugMsg("Doing A")

    // schedule B after 1.00 sec
    call TimerStart(t, 1.00, false, function DelayedAction)
endfunction

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But yet again, this still isn’t really a “true wait” replacement — it just splits the logic into callbacks, which gets messy pretty fast for longer sequences.

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.. Was thinking about options, so better ask.. :

1. Cinematic Engine - step based

2. Single Trigger State machine - if-else-if chain keyed

3. JASS (f) - but this is tricky since ExecuteFunc and global variables to simulate coroutines; I could call exmpl. PreciseWaitCoop ; but I believe this is not a standard pattern and is hard to implement and debug.

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