[General] Generic Expiration Timers on items?!

[Dimitri]

Yeah, I want to add a 60 sec expiration timer on items, if an item is droped from a monster, and the player doesnt pickup that item, it will disappear in 60 secs, or if a player drops an item, it disappears after 60 secs.

 

[rulerofiron99]

Simple way: set each item's hit points to 60, and make a trigger that deals 1 damage to every item in the map every second. (won't affect carried items)

 

[Dimitri]

Does this leaks?

• Item - Pick every item in (Playable map area) and do (Actions)
  • Loop - Actions
    • Item - Set life of (Picked item) to ((Current life of (Picked item)) - 1.25)

 

[rulerofiron99]

AFAIK it shouldn't... but if you want to be safe you could do -10 hp every 10 seconds.

 

[Dimitri]

AFAIK it shouldn't... but if you want to be safe you could do -10 hp every 10 seconds.

But this way some items could a lifetime between 51-60 secs

 

[Chaosy]

No it will give exactly 60

 

[Dimitri]

No it will give exactly 60

Nope, cause if an item is dropped after the 10 sec are running, it may be caught in the middle of the process, losing the 10hp in 1-10 secs

 

[gorillabull]

yes thats why you have to make a separate trigger which sets the item's life to 60 if its picked up

 

[Dimitri]

I did, this is solved.

 

[Adiktuz]

@gorillabull - I think he means this...

after 15 seconds of game time I drop an item... at 20 seconds, the trigger will run and lower the item's HP... so in turn, it got reduced in just 5 seconds so ultimately, the item will be gone in just 55 seconds instead of 60...