Walking when holding down key

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Two questions.

1. I'm trying to add a movement mechanic, but I want the background to move instead of the character.
For this I'm using a screen with a viewport. What do I need to add to make the background move in sync with the amount of dungSteps taken?

2. Right now I've got a BOOL that activates by pressing d on your keyboard. However instead of pressing d and then jumping to a label, is it possible to have a keydown action instead. That looks if a key (in this case the d key) is being held down. And if so, adds +1 to dungSteps every second?

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default dungWalk = False                    				   			 # False is standing still, True is walking
default dungSteps = 0

screen dungeonCave():
    #### Background ####
    viewport:
        xalign 0.0 yalign 0.0 xysize (1920, 1080)
        child_size (1920, 1080)
        
        edgescroll 0, 0
        draggable False
        arrowkeys False
        
        add "dive/pit/bg1.jpg"
        
    #### Character(s) #####
    add "gui/chars/charArtemis.png" xalign 0.35 yalign 0.5 zoom 0.5 xzoom -1
    
    #### How many steps taken #####
    text "[dungSteps]" xalign 0.5 yalign 0.1
    
    #### KEYBINDS ####
    if dungWalk:
        key "d" action SetVariable("dungWalk", False), Jump("dungWalk")
    else:
        key "d" action SetVariable("dungWalk", True), Jump("dungWalk")

label dungWalk:
    while dungWalk and dungSteps < 3000:
        $ dungSteps += 1
        pause 1.0
        
    if dungWalk == False:
        $ renpy.pause(hard='True')

[Per K Grok]

Two questions.

1. I'm trying to add a movement mechanic, but I want the background to move instead of the character.
For this I'm using a screen with a viewport. What do I need to add to make the background move in sync with the amount of dungSteps taken?

2. Right now I've got a BOOL that activates by pressing d on your keyboard. However instead of pressing d and then jumping to a label, is it possible to have a keydown action instead. That looks if a key (in this case the d key) is being held down. And if so, adds +1 to dungSteps every second?

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default dungWalk = False                    				   			 # False is standing still, True is walking
default dungSteps = 0

screen dungeonCave():
    #### Background ####
    viewport:
        xalign 0.0 yalign 0.0 xysize (1920, 1080)
        child_size (1920, 1080)
        
        edgescroll 0, 0
        draggable False
        arrowkeys False
        
        add "dive/pit/bg1.jpg"
        
    #### Character(s) #####
    add "gui/chars/charArtemis.png" xalign 0.35 yalign 0.5 zoom 0.5 xzoom -1
    
    #### How many steps taken #####
    text "[dungSteps]" xalign 0.5 yalign 0.1
    
    #### KEYBINDS ####
    if dungWalk:
        key "d" action SetVariable("dungWalk", False), Jump("dungWalk")
    else:
        key "d" action SetVariable("dungWalk", True), Jump("dungWalk")

label dungWalk:
    while dungWalk and dungSteps < 3000:
        $ dungSteps += 1
        pause 1.0
        
    if dungWalk == False:
        $ renpy.pause(hard='True')

I did a bit of experimenting with having a character walk in the game last year. I made this cookbook post that might have something in it you could find useful.

viewtopic.php?f=51&t=53333#p502719

Method 3 in the post would be the one closest to what you are doing here I think.

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Thanks! I'll check it out later tonight.