[Solved] Elapsed Game Timer

[dude30003001]

I was wondering if there was a GUI Trigger that has a timer that counts the time passed in game?

 

[Vladadamm]

Where do you want the time show ? In the Lumber/Food case ? in a Leaderboard ? in a Multiboard ?

 

[SA Dashie]

I think that he was asking if there is a way to detect the real elapse game time although to do this you will need to start a timer with an event of elapse time of zero as there is no function in GUI to detect the current elapse game time:/.

 

[Vladadamm]

Every 1seconds of game time :
Set ElapsedGameTime (Variable) to ElapsedGameTime + 1

And if this trigger is activated at the map init, ElapsedGameTime should be the current elapsed game time in seconds.

With some adaptations, it's possible to count in Minutes and Seconds (for exemple : 3Minutes and 26seconds)

 

[SA Dashie]

My bad I forgot for a second how timers work and they only work by counting down xD.
Here's how to do it.

• Elapse time
  • Events
    • Time - Every 1.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Second = (Second + 1)
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • Second Equal to 60
      • Then - Actions
        • Set Second = 0
        • Set Minute = (Minute + 1)
      • Else - Actions

 

[HuanAk]

This is best way I seen :

1, make a timer variable call "Time".
2, after game start, created a timer that expired in 9999 seconds (this timer is "Time".)
3, you can read elapsed time on "Time" variable at any time, and use it as "time passed" in your game.

 

[dude30003001]

My bad I forgot for a second how timers work and they only work by counting down xD.
Here's how to do it.

• Elapse time
  • Events
    • Time - Every 1.00 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Second = (Second + 1)
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • Second Equal to 60
      • Then - Actions
        • Set Second = 0
        • Set Minute = (Minute + 1)
      • Else - Actions

Ok, I need to know how the part: (Second +1) is put into the variables? From what i can see from this is that: Set Second = (Second +1), can i use two different variables for this? Example: make Set Second to Seconds?

 

[ronojales]

the (Second + 1) part is an Arithmetic function. look for it in the scroll down when setting the variable. and why do you want to use 2 variables for it? if you want it to be Seconds then just use the variable Seconds instead of setting Second to Seconds (Set Seconds = Seconds + 1)

 

[dude30003001]

Alright I got it thanks for the help, i really apreciated it

 

[SA Dashie]

This is best way I seen :

1, make a timer variable call "Time".
2, after game start, created a timer that expired in 9999 seconds (this timer is "Time".)
3, you can read elapsed time on "Time" variable at any time, and use it as "time passed" in your game.

Actualy that is less efficient as it is triggering every .01 seconds instead of every 1 second.