Timer in Leadwerks 3.3

[Pyditn]

Can someone please tell me a good way to do a timer that starts when the game starts and ends if a object is touched? I tryed many things but it doesnt worked. Thanks for your Answeres!

[f13rce]

You will need Time::GetCurrent() for this. This returns the time the application has been running for in milliseconds.

 

You basically keep a variable with the time of when it's started, and constantly check if the Current time minus the start time (so the elapsed time) is bigger or equal than the requirement.

 

Code would look like this:

float fStartTime = 0;
float fRequiredTime = 5000; // in milliseconds
bool bStartChecking = false;
void OnCollision(){
fStartTime = (float)Leadwerks::Time::GetCurrent(); // Have to convert from long long to float
bStartChecking = true;
}
void Update(){
if (bStartChecking){
 if ((float)Leadwerks::Time::GetCurrent() - fStartTime >= fRequiredTime){
	 // Do stuff when time has ended
 }
}
}

[thehankinator]

In the code below self.time_elapsed will contain the time in milliseconds from application start to when the item touched:

 

Script.time_elapsed = -1

function Script:Collision(entity, position, normal, speed)
 if self.time_elapsed == -1 then
   self.time_elapsed = Time:GetCurrent()
 end
end

[Rick]

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/files/file/502-timer/

 

In the collision just call the Stop function on the timer.