Need help understanding timers and counters.

[sevenbirds]

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to chime in and say that this worked wonderfully. I implemented this in a maze full of ogres and had a friends test it out. It really got him sweating! Thanks for creating awesome posts guys.

[Komag]

sounds great - it's always good news to hear something works the right way!

[davehca]

Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply. Somehow I missed the getValue hook when reading the reference.

I had to make one change to your script to get it to work, as hudPrint was expecting a string.

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function printTime()
  hudPrint(tostring(time_01:getValue()))
end

I couldn't get this to work. I created a timer; timer_1 is it's ID in the Inspector. Reading the above, I tried

hudPrint(tostring(timer_1:getValue()))

but it returns "attempt to call method 'getValue' (a nil value)"

So what I am doing wrong?

[Montis]

What you're doing wrong is that timers don't have a getValue() method. Grimwold was referring to "time", which was a counter.

http://www.grimrock.net/modding/scripting-reference/

[davehca]

[quote="Montis"]What you're doing wrong is that timers don't have a getValue() method. Grimwold was referring to "time", which was a counter.

d'oh!

Thanks.