A timer question :| - Printable Version

A timer question :| - Printable Version

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A timer question :| - [Bm]rap45 - 13.02.2010

Well I'm making a little TDM gamemode (almost finished) but the thing is that i don't know how to make a time appears when the attacker/player enters the checkpoint

so if anybody would be kind enough to explain to me how would it go, i would put him in the credits as well xD but no seriously please.

Re: A timer question :| - [HiC]TheKiller - 13.02.2010

pawn Код:

public OnPlayerEnterCheckpoint(playerid)
{
  SetTimer(....);
  return 1;
}

Is that what you mean?

Re: A timer question :| - [Bm]rap45 - 13.02.2010

Yea but you would need to put a "new timer" thingy on top right? cuz damn im bad timers

Re: A timer question :| - mansonh - 13.02.2010

You mean the id of the timer.
You only need to have the id of a timer if you plan to kill it.
(If your using a looping timer (settimer("function",time,true)), then you def need the id.)

Quite often if its player related then you can just use one per player.
ex
new mytimers[MAX_PLAYERS];

then

pawn Код:

public OnPlayerEnterCheckpoint(playerid)
{
  mytimers[playerid] = SetTimer(....);
  return 1;
}

Re: A timer question :| - [Bm]rap45 - 13.02.2010

ooooh so how would i be able to show it in-game screen? like in a textdraw or GameText? wouldn't be like

pawn Код:

public OnPlayerEnterCheckpoint(playerid)
{
  mytimers[playerid] = SetTimer(....);
  GameTextForPlayer(bla bla bla) 
  return 1;
}

Re: A timer question :| - mansonh - 13.02.2010

Oh you want to show the timer the countdown for their timer, i see.

Timers can't be directly shown, they work in the background, so you have to make a textdraw, and have another timer per second.

I don't know textdraws that well, so I would wait for thekiller to explain that, he knows textdraws better than i do.

Something like:

pawn Код:

public OnPlayerEnterCheckpoint(playerid)
{
  //your textdraw stuff
  new mytimer = SetTimerEx("updateTextDraw",1000, true, "d", textdrawid)
  mytimers[playerid] = SetTimerEX("yourfunction",30000,false,"dd", countdowntimer, countdowntextdraw );

  return 1;
}

forward updateTextDraw(textdrawid);
public updateTextDraw(textdrawid)
{
 //update textdraw stuff(aka minus one second)
}

forward yourfunction(timerid, textdrawid);
public yourfunction(timerid, textdrawid)
{
  KillTimer(timerid);
  //destroy textdraw
}

Re: A timer question :| - [Bm]rap45 - 13.02.2010

yea thats what i was looking for

well now ima search bout textdraws to see if i can find something

Re: A timer question :| - mansonh - 13.02.2010

I can tell you have scripted a lot before coming to samp

Yah whenever i use textdraws I use a textdraw creator to do the hard stuff for me.
http://forum.sa-mp.com/index.php?topic=143025.0

Then you can put that in the function and use
the set textdraw string and showfor player functions in the updatetextdraw function.

Re: A timer question :| - [HiC]TheKiller - 13.02.2010

Well, firstly, you would need to get the textdraw info using the link that Mansonh posted, it should look something like:

pawn Код:

new Text:Textdraw0;
// In OnGameModeInit prefferably, we procced to create our textdraws:
Textdraw0 = TextDrawCreate(17.000000, 429.000000, "Timeleft: 432423");
TextDrawBackgroundColor(Textdraw0, 65535);
TextDrawFont(Textdraw0, 1);
TextDrawLetterSize(Textdraw0, 0.500000, 1.000000);
TextDrawColor(Textdraw0, 16777215);
TextDrawSetOutline(Textdraw0, 1);
TextDrawSetProportional(Textdraw0, 1);

Now, what we do from here is add the timer.

pawn Код:

new Timer;
new TimeM, TimeS;
public OnPlayerEnterCheckpoint(playerid)
{
  //your textdraw stuff
  Timer = SetTimer("UpdateTD",1000, true);
  TimeM = 0/*However many minutes you want the timer to go for*/;
  TimeS = 30/*However many seconds you want the timer to go for*/;
  return 1;
}

public OnPlayerLeaveCheckpoint(playerid)
{
  KillTimer(Timer);
  TextDrawHideForAll(Textdraw0);
  //Kill the timer because the player exited the CP.
  return 1;
}

forward UpdateTD();
public UpdateTD()
{
  TimeS --;
  if(TimeS == 0 && TimeM == 0) 
  {
    //The player has been in the CP long enough, the round ends?
  }
  new Str[35];
  if(TimeS < 10) format(Str, 35, "%d:0%d", TimeM, TimeS);
  if(TimeS > 9) format(Str, 35, "%d:%d", TimeM, TimeS);
  TextDrawSetString(Textdraw0, Str);
  return 1;
}

Re: A timer question :| - [Bm]rap45 - 13.02.2010

ok ill try that thanks!