Slider timer in a Mini-Game
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Im making a mini-game where the player has to perform a task every 5 or 6 seconds. I made the mini game work, but im having a lot of trouble with the timer. I´ve red many post about this subject, but i coudln´t made it work. Maybe because im not much experienced with AC/Unity yet.
The idea of the timer is simple, it is a countdown slider bar, and when the value reaches 0, i want the player to lose. But if the player was abel to perform the task before 0, i want the timer to star over inmediatly, and the minigame continues with a more challenging task and so on.
I don´t know much coding, is it posible to make it entirely on AC?
Thanks and cheers to all to those who will answer. And again im sorry for my broken english!
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What is it specifically you're having the player do?
The "Time" menu element type is meant for built-in timed situations such as Conversations and Quick-Time events. If your gameplay involves pressing a particular button in time, you could make use of the QTE system to set up a timer, and win/lose states automatically - see this tutorial.
Otherwise, you can create a timed win/lose situation using ActionLists. On a very simple level, you could create a background ActionList / Cutscene that waits for e.g. 5 seconds and then triggers a separate "fail state" Cutscene.
If an ActionList's When running property is set to Run In Background, it won't interfere with gameplay, and Engine: Wait Actions will simply become background timers.
So when your timed sequence begins, you trigger that ActionList - meaning if the Player does nothing, the "fail" Cutscene will run 5 seconds from then.
If the Player succeeds in this time, you then just need to call the ActionList: Kill Action at the beginning of the "win state" Cutscene to kill that background ActionList.
To have a timed display, you can create a "Slider" menu element that has its value linked to a Global Float Variable - and then update that variable's value during the background ActionList.
Replacing the single Engine: Wait Action with the following would cause it to go down by 0.1s increments:
https://imgur.com/a/NyFq337