How to make a timer in LUA?

[H2O Delirious]

I read about it on different forms but didn’t understand anything, maybe something is different in the game?

[Ra-Ra-Rasputin]

Does it have to be specifically in LUA?

You can do this by the following workaround:

ADD A: 1/60 B: Memory out
ADD output: Memory input

Since the microcontroller runs in 60 ticks / second (or close enough, it seems accurate with my real life stopwatch) this should work as a timer.

Does the fluffypony site mentioned in the guide have any clock or timer feature within it?

[tribalart]

its old but i was searching today and finally found a simple solution :


A = 0

function onTick()
if FirstCondition == 1 then
A = A + 1


if A > 350 then
-- do something after the first Condition and 350 tick (?)
A = 0
end
end
end

[shadouv]

if i put a=a+1 i get error ... im trying all time but cant get it to work

[ShizNator]

This would run a timer and execute it's code every 5 seconds if a toggle input is on

a=0
ticks=300

function onTick()
    btn=input.getBool(1)

    if btn then 
        a=a+1
        if a>=ticks then
            --You Would Put Your code for whatever you wanna do here.
            a=0
        end
    end
end

if a=a+1 causes an error it's because you're not declaring it and calling a nil value or you made a typo and calling a nil value.

Lua is case sensative so a and A are not the same.

Post your code here and you can post it inbetween [code] [/code] tags to keep it's spaces etc..

[Haven <3]

Late, but what if I wanna do something every second? I'm trying to make a countdown timer, so I would need something to delay it every second (the amount it counts down is a property slider from 1-9), here is my code;

while count >= 0 and start == true do
	-- Whichever way you can delay by one second
	screen.drawText(w/2,h/2,count)
	count = count - 1
end

[Sharp777]

why not use the micro controller timer blocks

[ShizNator]

Originally posted by Sharp777:

why not use the micro controller timer blocks

How to make a timer in LUA?

[Sharp777]

Timer block --- numerical counter value into lua script

[Sharp777]

Use valves from clock . You need a measure of time cant use tick as basis for timer not consistant

[ShizNator]

Yeah and my timer code can be changed for whatever time your want.

Just change ticks=300 which is 5 seconds in ticks to what you want. (desired timer seconds * 60)

So to run it's code every 1 second you would put ticks=60. Because 60 ticks = 1 second

[Haven <3]

Originally posted by ShizNator:

Yeah and my timer code can be changed for whatever time your want.

Just change ticks=300 which is 5 seconds in ticks to what you want. (desired timer seconds * 60)

So to run it's code every 1 second you would put ticks=60. Because 60 ticks = 1 second

The only issue is that'll require it to run in onTick, but I need it to run in onDraw or else screen.drawText wouldn't work (but I could be wrong).

[ShizNator]

Originally posted by JustHaven!:

Originally posted by ShizNator:

Yeah and my timer code can be changed for whatever time your want.

Just change ticks=300 which is 5 seconds in ticks to what you want. (desired timer seconds * 60)

So to run it's code every 1 second you would put ticks=60. Because 60 ticks = 1 second

The only issue is that'll require it to run in onTick, but I need it to run in onDraw or else screen.drawText wouldn't work (but I could be wrong).

Well simply...

a=0
ticks=60

function onTick()

    btn=input.getBool(1)

end

function onDraw()
    if btn then 
        a=a+1
        if a>=ticks then
            --You Would Put Your code for whatever you wanna do here.
            a=0
        end
    end
end

[Ra-Ra-Rasputin]

Originally posted by ShizNator:

Yeah and my timer code can be changed for whatever time your want.

Just change ticks=300 which is 5 seconds in ticks to what you want. (desired timer seconds * 60)

So to run it's code every 1 second you would put ticks=60. Because 60 ticks = 1 second

*62 ticks.
Why? Because fúck you that's why.
No, i have no idea why it's that figure either.

[ShizNator]

Because just like their DLC their heads where up in Space.

[Ra-Ra-Rasputin]

Actually, there is an arguable reason on mathematics on why 62 is better, as opposed to 60, but if they wished to bank on that, 64 is a number that's a successive power of 2, meaning it's a geometric sequence. If you go for 62 instead of 60, there's no real reason to not go for 64.