Player timer/score

vlaso

I'm trying to calculate the time a player survives as the score. I currently have 2 attributes, StartTime and EndTime in which consult game.Time. However, when the game finishes, the timer continues and I am having troubles stopping it and reseting it.

Do you know a way of stopping it?
Do you know how to reset it?
If not, do you know another way of achieving a score system like this?
Thank you, sorry for all the questions.

tatiang

Change attribute game.StartTime to game.Time
When [game over condition]
Change attribute game.EndTime to game.Time
Change attribute game.Score to game.EndTime-game.StartTime
Otherwise
Constrain attribute game.Score to game.Time-game.StartTime

You'll want to use round() or roundTo() to round those expressions to some number of digits.

vlaso

This is just for displaying the score, right? This doesnt stop or reset the time?

vlaso

Is it possible maybe to get a demo of this? just to help me understand it more. Thankyou.

tatiang

No, it stops and resets the time, too. Just put that code into an actor and then use another actor on your game over scene to display game.Score.

tatiang

Posting your image here:

tatiang

You'll notice that your second Change Attribute behavior has a blank expression instead of:

Change attribute game.EndTime to game.Time

vlaso

I have added that to a pause button, but it stops the timer for a split second before continuing when unpaused. When unpaused it jumps to the time it would have been, like it was never paused...
Eg. Paused at 1.0sec, Unpause and the timer is 10.0sec.

How can I have it so the timer stops completely, and then starts from the exact time paused (1.0sec)

tatiang

For that you'd have to use a custom timer, something like Timer every 0.1 seconds change attribute game.customTime (real) to game.customTime + 0.1. You would use that attribute in place of game.Time in your rules. To reset the timer, you would change attribute game.customTime to 0.