Timer as score

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  • Just finished the beginning tut and wanted to see how I could create a timer that starts when the game launches and will end (when player dies etc)

    When I changed it to every tick update timer by 1 it changed 60 per second which I can understand why.

    My problem is how do I tell it every 60 ticks to ++ then get that into a "time" format.

    I'm guessing I'd have to format it somehow with a / then display the results? like 120 seconds/60 = 2 Minutes? Am I over thinking this?

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  • global variable Timer
System: Every ticks
    -> add dt to Timer
    local variable min
    local variable sec
        -> System: set min to floor(Timer/60)
        -> System: set sec to int(Timer)%60
        -> Text: set Text to right("00"&min,2)&":"&right("00"&sec,2)

    dt is a special word in c2 that return the time spent between two ticks. so after 60 ticks if you run at 60fps, so 1 second later, Timer will equal 1 (what a coincidence!)

    also the right(string,length) function return the right part of a string, so the expression will zero fill the number.

    % is the modulo operator:

       0%60 = 0

    20%60 = 20

    60%60 = 0

    80%60 = 20

    value tends to cycle when you use modulo. (officially a%b gives the remainder of the euclidian division of a by b... unofficially... easy cycling)

  • Awesome! Thank you both!

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