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Setting timers with tgb

by webster07tgb · in Torque Game Builder · 03/23/2007 (11:41 am) · 2 replies

Just wondering if anybody knows how to create script for a timer, for example, to get give the user 15 seconds to answer a question.

also how to keep a running score throughout different levels.

any feedback is greatly appreciated, thanks.
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Torque 3D Owner Eric Armstrong
Bloody Tongue Games
#1
03/23/2007 (11:51 am) 
function countDown(%time)
{
   %time = %time - 1;
   if(%time == 0)
   {
      timeRanOut();
   }
   else
   {
      schedule(1000, "countDown", %time);
   }
}

The above is not checked for syntax, but should give you the idea... To start the timer, you would just call countDown passing in the starting value in seconds...

Associate David Higgins
DPHCoders.com
#2
03/23/2007 (12:00 pm)
@Ryan, there are various ways to create a timer -- schedules are one, and at an object-level you can call %obj.setTimerOn(300) and this will generate an onTimer() callback for that object --

%obj = new t2dSceneObject() { class = "myClass"; };
%obj.setTimerOn(300);

function myClass::onTimer(%this)
{
  warn("Timer Ticked ...");
}

The 'timer' will continue to run, until you call SetTimerOff, if I remember correctly -- where as schedules, I believe have to be explicitly re-generated in the 'timer' callback

Both have there uses -- and they are more or less, the same thing ... they use the same 'code' internally to pull it off, the only difference really is that one generates an object-level callback, and the other calls the function passed in ...