Timer behaviour

Quite a few times I've run into a situation where I wished for a simple and manageable timer for objects. I've been using Fade behaviour to that effect, a PV and a few events to behave as the timer etc...

So here is the feature request:

Timer Behaviour

• start timer on create (option)
• destroy after time (option)
• get current time
• repeat (for example it would go from 0 to 1000 and then repeat)
• on timer expired > action
• start timer
• set timer

And so on. Having a dedicated timer behaviour would really be convenient for the game development!

you can just use private variables for all this.

I think a timer would be handy

It's an easy and nice behavior for someone new to the SDK to make.

Someone make it, gogogo.

Ill get on it as soon as a finish my current plugin project. Would it be an object or a behavior?

Sounds like an object to me.

The original post sounds like he wanted a behavior, so individual objects could hold a unique timer.

Tip for SDK developers: use GetLayoutClock() as the timer function (milliseconds since start of layout) since it's high-resolution and timescaling compatible.

When we discussed it on the chat, we thought it'd be best as a behavior; that way if you have a collision event involving only one instance, you can have a 'start timer: destroy, for 1000ms' and then when it goes off, only that object is destroyed.

This kind of behaviour sounds like it would be rather simple, and could be a good tutorial for writing behaviours

I've created this for the next build, the source should be on CVS very shortly for anyone interested.

Wow

Great!

I was improvising a timer too, this will be great!