Solved - How do I shake a die 10 times?

Here is what I want to have happen:

- I press the number 5.

- the Die (a sprite object with 2 behaviors on it: Sine and Timer) shakes for half a second and then changes value.

- The step above repeats 10 times.

- After 10 repetitions (5 total seconds) it stops shaking and displays the final value.

Below is my code, but it's not working (I think it's all happening in an instant before I can even see it).

BTW, I'm trying to use Timer because when I looked up examples with "wait" or "every x seconds", I kept seeing advice that said to use the Timer instead.

What am I doing wrong (am I even close)?

Yes, using wait can be tricky and you have to be a little bit careful, but it's fine depending on the case. You're using the timer wrong, the timer doesn't behave like a wait. You're just starting a timer on the dice, that's why this is happening in an instant. I personally wouldn't bother with a timer in this case actually.

wackytoaster.at/parachute/10dicerolls.c3p

WackyToaster, This is awesome - thank you so much!

One question, I see you're using a custom action instead of a function. I've used functions, but not custom actions. What is the benefit/difference from a function?

WackyToasterThanks again for all the help and explanations.

One last question, in your version wait shows (use time scale: True), but that doesn't appear on my screen.

Is that important, how do I get that and what is it doing?

Oh that's probably just because I'm on the latest beta version. It will come to the stable version eventually, you don't really have to worry about it. It just means that the wait action takes the timescale of the project into account when waiting. Timescale of 2 would mean everything in the game runs twice as fast, so a wait of 1 second would instead be 0.5 seconds long. It's simply an option to say you don't want timescale to change the duration of the wait.