pausing timers?

slev

how can i pause a timer that spawns an actors every 2 seconds ?

slev

bump?

old_kipper

Perhaps have the timer in rule that references an boolean attribute so you can make it true or false and then stop or start the spawning?

hope that helps

kipper

bluebyu25

If you are really desperate you can spawn and destroy it but what old kipper said should work just fine

slev

ahh forgot to mension, the spawner times get quicker (to increase difficulty) so simply destorying the the spawned items wouldnt work as the timer would keep ticking. Im not sure but would a bolean attribute reset the timer each time it was turned on/off ?

youngster9

you can make a rule when the boolean was made true it will set the timer back to the original settings. Make the timer only work if the boolean is true. That should work.

tenrdrmer

slev said:
ahh forgot to mension, the spawner times get quicker (to increase difficulty) so simply destorying the the spawned items wouldnt work as the timer would keep ticking. Im not sure but would a bolean attribute reset the timer each time it was turned on/off ?

If you have your timer duration setup to use whatever a game attribute is set to then as long as that attribute doesn't reset when you have a boolean disable your timer it will use the duration it stopped at when it starts again. Of course you will have to stop the game attribute from continuing to get smaller when ever you pause the timer.