Help with some a timer

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DeadFall (Posted 2012) [#1]

So I'm trying to make it so when I reload the players gun it takes x time to reload. But so far everything I've done just returns the initial variable I put into the function. Here's the code [monkeycode] Function time:Int(value:Int) Local startTime:Int = Millisecs() Local currentTime:Int = value If currentTime > 0 currentTime = value - ( (Millisecs() -startTime) / 1000) End If Return currentTime End Function [/monkeycode] And I'm calling like this [monkeycode] If time(reloadtime) <= 0 Then ammo = maxAmmo canFire = True End If [/monkeycode] But like I said all it does it returns like the variable I set first.

Jesse (Posted 2012) [#2]

you are either going to have to set some variables as global or create a Class to take care of that. as it stands millisecs = startTime and millisecs - starttime = 0 and 0 / 1000 = 0 so yea that would never work.

DeadFall (Posted 2012) [#3]

Thank you. I realized I didn't even need starttime, just changed it to "1" and it works now. But now I have a problem were it's being called before I want it called. And it's not resetting after hitting 0.

Samah (Posted 2012) [#4]

Generally i keep a field that stores "next available time". [monkeycode]Field nextAvailableFireMillis:Int ..... Local currentMillis:Int = Millisecs() ' check if the gun is ready to do any action If currentMillis >= nextAvailableFireMillis Then If (pressed reload) Then ' TODO: do reload ' make the gun unavailable for the entire reloading time nextAvailableFireMillis = currentMillis + (reload time millis) ElseIf (pressed fire) Then ' TODO: fire bullet ' make the gun unavailable for the time it takes to fire a bullet nextAvailableFireMillis = currentMillis + (fire rate millis) End End[/monkeycode]