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Mind
Joined: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:54 pm
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 Timer Alright, i can't seem to get this no matter what i do. I want to create a timer in a script that lasts for a certain amount of time. Basically, i want an effect that lasts for a certain amount of time then goes away. I've tried a couple things with daman's help, but havent been able to get it to work. Any help? Thanks 
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| Sat May 23, 2009 4:18 am |
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mail2345
Joined: Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:58 am
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Re: Timer Have a timer set the Lifetime to 2?
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| Sat May 23, 2009 4:47 am |
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Mind
Joined: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:54 pm
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Re: Timer mail2345 wrote: Have a timer set the Lifetime to 2? So put timer.lifetime = 2?
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| Sat May 23, 2009 5:04 am |
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Grif
REAL AMERICAN HERO
Joined: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:25 pm
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Re: Timer Timers don't have lifetime holy ♥♥♥♥.
You can't destroy a timer to the best of my knowledge (admittedly lacking) but you can just ignore it if it's past a certain time. The CPU load from a single timer is going to be virtually nil.
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| Sat May 23, 2009 6:11 am |
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mail2345
Joined: Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:58 am
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Re: Timer No, set the effect's lifetime to 2.
You don't need to destroy the timer.
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TheLastBanana
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Re: Timer Why has everybody decided that 2 is the magic number?
The Lifetime is how many frames until the object should be removed. If you set it to 2, it's likely to cause a delay.
Setting it to 1 is effectively saying "remove next frame".
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| Sat May 23, 2009 7:42 am |
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mail2345
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Re: Timer I thought that there was a glitch where lifetime = 1 didn't kill the particle.
That might not be this build.
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| Sat May 23, 2009 8:09 am |
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Geti
Joined: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:57 am
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Re: Timer Code: function Create(self)
self.sometimer = Timer()
end
function Update(self)
if self.sometimer:IsPastSimMS(ANUMBERHERETHATYOUWANTTOUSE) then
♥♥♥♥ TO DO HERE, PROBABLY MovableMan:RemoveMO(self) OR self:GibThis()
end
end
function Destroy(self)
end what is hard about this?
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| Sat May 23, 2009 9:34 am |
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numgun
Joined: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:04 pm
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Re: Timer mail2345 wrote: I thought that there was a glitch where lifetime = 1 didn't kill the particle.
That might not be this build. I'm kinda being paranoid here and I always try to set my particles to 2.
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| Sat May 23, 2009 10:32 am |
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TheLastBanana
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Re: Timer Lifetime = 0 won't kill the particle, as the game sees it as no Lifetime. Setting it to 1 is the way to go, usually.
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| Sat May 23, 2009 7:14 pm |
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Grif
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Re: Timer Lifetime = 0 is purposefully infinite lifetime.
Look in ancient .inis, the ones where there's comments rather than variable names.
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| Sun May 24, 2009 3:26 am |
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Mind
Joined: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:54 pm
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Location: USA
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Re: Timer Geti wrote: Code: function Create(self)
self.sometimer = Timer()
end
function Update(self)
if self.sometimer:IsPastSimMS(ANUMBERHERETHATYOUWANTTOUSE) then
crap TO DO HERE, PROBABLY MovableMan:RemoveMO(self) OR self:GibThis()
end
end
function Destroy(self)
end what is hard about this? Wow, thanks geti. The only thing i didnt have that you have is the destroy self function...thats why it didn't work. Appreciate it!
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| Sun May 24, 2009 9:32 pm |
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Grif
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Re: Timer What?
function destroy self
end
will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. It's empty! Useless! Entirely unecessary and actually bad syntax. Guaranteed that wasn't your problem.
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| Mon May 25, 2009 6:12 am |
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Lord Tim
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:55 pm
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Re: Timer I haven't tried, but leaving out the Destory(self) could infact break it. These aren't real lua scripts. They're parsed by Data's C++ code, and the functions are added to the C++ objects. If it doesn't find one of the functions that it is expecting, that could break it.
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| Mon May 25, 2009 7:29 am |
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mail2345
Joined: Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:58 am
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Re: Timer It will just use the default function.
I would leave it out.
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