Help with Sprites (Duration & Interval)

[f00fighter]

I am trying to tweak the PREF_SPRITE_DURATION and PREF_SPRITE_INTERVAL settings in the BOOT.TXT file but I'm not getting the results that I am looking for...please help!

I want to see a new sprite every 20 seconds (is this PREF_SPRITE_INTERVAL??), with each one lasting 10 seconds (is this PREF_SPRITE_DURATION??) which should create a 10 second gap where no sprite displayed between each sprite. How can I accomplish this???

Example:
- Sprite A is displayed for 10 seconds
- No sprite is displayed for 10 seconds
- Sprite B is displayed for 10 seconds
and so on...

I tried these settings, but no luck...

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SetPref( PREF_SPRITE_DURATION, 		"10" );
SetPref( PREF_SPRITE_INTERVAL, 		"20" );	

Can someone help me out here? Thanks!

[JayPro]

First of all, are you using the standalone or a media player?
If the latter, then based on the information you provide (which makes sense to me BTW), I'm not sure why you don't get your desired results.
If you use the standalone, I believe the best way to edit is thru the Prefs file. I haven't had much chance to edit anything thru either document recently, and especially I'm not sure how confident I am in explaining the slightly differently-worded language of the Prefs file to you.
I hope this is of help.....I'm *far* from a scripting maven, as you can prolly figure out.

[f00fighter]

Oops...double post!

[f00fighter]

Hey JayPro - Thanks for the tip!

I backed out my changes in BOOT.TXT and changed the appropriate PREFS file instead like you suggested (and as shown below):

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SDur="10"
SInt="20"

This is giving me much better results...although the timing still seems to be off a bit...so perhaps there's yet another random timing value that I am not aware of that has some impact on the display of background sprites??

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks! I am now seeing my collection of background images much more frequently!