Global timer

[cromcrom]

Is there a way to set up a global timer, that will carry on at the same "speed" over different areas ?

[Ixnatifual]

Perhaps you could teleport the timer to the new area when the party changes location. Or attach it to the party.

[NutJob]

I found the timer slows down, too, if the party leaves the level it's on.

[cromcrom]

Exactly.

[Batty]

I'm doing a timer test, I'll have a thread on it. If you want a global timer, you probably need it to "follow" the party wherever they go.

[Komag]

You create a separate timer for every level, and just have the timer on the party level be the next that updates your ticker

[cromcrom]

Thanks for the ideas, I will give it a try once I have some more script definitions

[cromcrom]

Something I could try is to have a "party_detect" timer that runs all the time on each level. If it detects the party on his level, then it starts the "global_timer" that is also on this level. If it doesn't detect the party, it turns the "global_timer" off.

I really don't like that. At all.

[Diarmuid]

The onGui / onUpdate timer solution will be the easiest to implement once we get the reference.

[JKos]

I suddenly got this crazy idea that I have to try to attach a TimerComponent to the Party-object. And you know what? It works

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defineObject{
   name = "party",
   baseObject = "party",
   components = {
		{
			class = "Timer"
		}
   }
}

then in script:

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party.timer:addConnector("onActivate", "t", "onPartyTimer")

Now you have a timer which follows the party. But I haven't tested this much, so it's possible that it causes some problems.