timer help

[furiousfox]

ok so. In my game a bomb has been set and the timer is for 2 min 30 seconds. I want the heros to get out before that time or die. I have tried many things with no success. All i want is a timer that displaces on screen and through battles and when it reaches 0 and the heros have not reached the save zone they die.
I hope you guys understood that its late here xD

[Hell Angel]

Well, you'll need pictures of numbers to get what you want, here. It'd be... sort of complicated but the way I'd go about doing this is a variable for the time (in this case the variable would start out at 150), with a 'minus 1' off the variable every second. Then, make three seperate pictures, each representing the numbers in the timer --

So you could do something like have each picture check the variable every .1 seconds and then change to the number it would correspond to... So if there's 1:59 left then the first picture would be 1:, the second would be 5, and the last would be 9. With a bit of conditional branches in each, and the know how, it should give you something close to what you want...

Oh and have one of the picture-events check when the variable is equal or less than zero, and then just have explosions and ****, along with gameover.

[Rahl]

Theres actually an extremely simple solution to this problem. The game has a built in system that displays a timer. For an example I have made a simple switch timer to help you out. Heres some screenshots:





This is the switch on the wall that turns the timer off before the bomb detonates.



This is a screenshot of the in game timer that counts down from the set time.



Just take this example and set the time you wish to have it count down from. Then make it start with display timer on screen option selected. I hope you can take somthing from this and if you need any help just ask.

[Hell Angel]

I... did not know that.

*walks away, with his tail between his legs*

[ShadowStorm]

the problem with the wait command is that the charactor is kinda...stuck in place..isn't he/she?

[Rahl]

No he isn't as long as you make it a parrallel process. The second page where the wait command is can also be made into a common event so that you can have him move from map to map without making the timer go away.

[Rahl]

This is a link to the bomb tutorial I made today for this thread, enjoy. Small download.


http://www.filefactory.com/file/aged0ef/n/Helper_rar