Timer pause/resume

[Doctor Hobo]

I am still fairly new to the world editor. what i am working on is wave based. I am trying to make a repeatable timer and when it expires it will pause and then resume when all enemy's are dead. Then it will repeat that till i turn it off. This is what i have so far...

Now my problem is The timer is created and runs how it suppose to, but it will not resume. The timer stays pause. I know "enemycounterRed" is not the problem because i have it displayed on a multi-board in game so i know when it reaches 0. Any way to help me?

 

[WereElf]

Why do you do this with "Repeating timer", when you pause it upon expiration anyways? Just make it a 1 shot timer.
Also having the same condition 2-ce in a row in the trigger is quite pointless. You can remove the "if" inside the function.
And for the reason why it is not working:
Add a "Set enemycounterRed = (enemycounterRed - 1)" before the "if" check.
Also remove the "Do nothing" as it's beyond useless.

 

[Wietlol]

First of all, I can tell you that enemycounterRed IS the problem.

Secondly, yes, it is really useless to make it a repeating timer.
Just make it a one shot timer and remove the pause timer action and you should be fine.

 

[Doctor Hobo]

Why do you do this with "Repeating timer", when you pause it upon expiration anyways? Just make it a 1 shot timer.
Also having the same condition 2-ce in a row in the trigger is quite pointless. You can remove the "if" inside the function.
And for the reason why it is not working:
Add a "Set enemycounterRed = (enemycounterRed - 1)" before the "if" check.
Also remove the "Do nothing" as it's beyond useless.

I did test it your fix did work. Why do i have to add "Set enemycounterRed = (enemycounterRed - 1)"in my 002 trigger. i already have that done in another trigger.

 

[LordDz]

" Why do i have to add "Set enemycounterRed = (enemycounterRed - 1)"in my 002 trigger. i already have that done in another trigger."

We only know what you post. If you have triggers that affect the triggers you posted but doesn't show them, it's kinda hard knowing that you have triggers that affect the triggers you've posted.

 

[Wietlol]

My bet?
Wrong order of execution.
I think that your multiboard thing works fine and the value was 0 at the moment that the unit died, but this trigger probably ran the moment before that variable was set to 0.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Resuming a paused periodic timer results in it turning into one-shot. Same applies if a periodic timer is loaded from a save game. It is a WC3 bug, pause/resume timer does not conserve the periodic state of the timer.

The work around it is constantly restart the timer as one-shot in response to it expiring.

 

[Doctor Hobo]

Thank you everyone. I got it sorted out.