How do I make a countdown

So in my game i need a countdown, from 3 to 0, and then the game begins. So i will need everything to be disabled when the countdown is going and enable everything when it hits 0.

Thanks for any help

I'd say the absolute easiest way would be to have the control groups disabled by default, then run an event on startup that goes something like this:

Text > Set Text ("3")

Wait 1 second

Text > Set Text ("2")

Wait 1 second

Text > Set Text ("1")

Wait 1 second

Text > Destroy

Set control groups enabled

Not elegant by any means, but totally functional.

Or you could take a look at timers. If it's 3 seconds or 3 min's it will still work the same, https://www.scirra.com/manual/167/timer

If you need more info post back after you check it out. Regardless both methods should work:)

Way 1 =

Use the PAUSE plugin to set your entire game to pause.

Then Create a label (text) in the middle of the screen , (1. use one text and set its visibility 2.create a text)

then just use a global variable to hold the integer. then :

On start of layout -> Create Label - Set visible TRUE

Then just -> Every 1 Second -> subscract 1 from the global variable.

The last thing you need is a event for refreshing the text when it gets 1 less.

So if the global variable == 0 -> Disable pause -> make text invisible.

Efery Tick -> Set TEXT to &globalVariable

oh and i forgot you also need

I'd say the absolute easiest way would be to have the control groups disabled by default, then run an event on startup that goes something like this:

Text > Set Text ("3")

Wait 1 second

Text > Set Text ("2")

Wait 1 second

Text > Set Text ("1")

Wait 1 second

Text > Destroy

Set control groups enabled

Not elegant by any means, but totally functional.

hmm yeah this might be a more elegant way than i posted

Thanks for the quick aswers