Time Played

[Linkforce]

Hey all.  I was wondering if there was a way to put the amount of time played in the default menu screen.  Is there any way to do this that doesnt involve massive amounts of coding?

[Dominicy]

One of two ways.  Make a watch locket-watch item thing that you USE to check how long you've played, using a variable for seconds, a variable for minutes, and a variable for hours.  Another way would be to use ITEMS instead of variables.

Either way,

Make a common event, make it parallel process, no conditional switch.  Make the event increase the variable or item 'seconds' by 1, then wait 1 second.  Make a second common event (or use the same one, either way it should work) with the conditional branch 'If seconds = 60', no alternate branch.  then (inside the conditional branch) set the variable/item seconds to 0 and add 1 to the variable/item minutes.  Do the same for minutes, except with hours.

If this wasn't clear enough, tell me.

Good luck

[Linkforce]

Ok, I did all that....now how do I show it in the menu?

[aboutasoandthis]

No. It takes a custom menu like Dominicy's way.

[Linkforce]

So is there a way to do it with the default menu?

[psy_wombats]

If you don't want a custom menu it's easy enough to just have a message print it out, like:
"Played for \v

• :\v[y]:\v[z]" with the variables being the indexes of the hours/minutes/seconds. Then this would be triggered by an item, as Dominicy suggested.

[Dominicy]

Yeh, I forgot to mention that, sorry.  But, instead of variables there's always making unsellable items that work as a clock.  For example, things like, 'Clock - Seconds/Minutes/Hours'.