How to pause a timer?

thomasrichardgames

I have a timer that counts down, but i want the timer to pause when the pause button is pressed. (when the pause button is pressed, it spawns an actor). I don't want anything else to pause, just the timer? How would i go around doing this. Thanks.

Braydon_SFX

Create a boolean attribute called Paused.

In your timer:

Wrap your timer rules etc in a rule that says:
When attribute game. Paused is false.


In your pause actor:
When touched is pressed:
Change attribute game.Paused to true.


Hope this helps.

MarcoCol

Hi,

I have just the same problem. I do a timer as in the example of the TShirtBooth-Video.
So then I wrap in my timer all in the rule and put it "When attribute game. Paused is false".
On my pause-button I put then when it will be pressed, that the change attribute game.paused to true.
In my pause-scene (I have no pause-actor but a pause-scene) I put then in the button to go back to the game the change attribute game.paused to false.

So the result is that the timer starts, when the game starts.
If I put the pause-button, then the timer will not be seen through the 50% transparent-pause-Scene, but ok. When getting then back to the game by pressing the back-to-game button, then the Timer start again at 60 seconds (my timer counts all the time in the level from 60 back to 0).

What must I change there?

GLGAMES

That will only mean the 'counter' that you have is resetted everytime. By the way how are you making that counter? Integer attribute counter = counter - 1 every 1 sec?

MarcoCol

I use the method, descibed in this video:


How can I pause the timer, when I change my game-status in the pause-mode (clicking the pause button, change the scene, pause game)?

GLGAMES

To my knowledge i think the pause game function doesn't pause the internal clock.
Maybe some expert can verify that.

MarcoCol

Ah, that sounds logical! So then I can't use the internal clock...
I'll try your suggestion:
Integer attribute counter = counter - 1 every 1 sec

MarcoCol

I've change it that change attribute as "REAL" every second = attribute -1 and it works.
Is there a problem using REAL instead of INTEGER?

GLGAMES

no unless you have decimals value. but i doubt there will be.

MarcoCol

My counter simple counts from 90 to 0 and then it ends. So no decimals?!

GLGAMES

no problem.