Need help to make a simple timer, sort of a countdown

I have searched up so many sites on google to try and get this to work but NO ONE seems to have this anywhere , and if they do... It's just NOT working with my program... What I am trying to achieve is to have a player recoil that when the player gets hit, he has a "x" amount of time between getting hit the first time and the second time...

So I have a boolean variable "hit" set to false and when he gets hit, it changes to true... Which means he can't get hit again until it's changed to false again...

So I'm trying to set up a function in my program to set a "timer" for "x" amount of seconds IF hit = true and once that timer hits "x" amount of seconds, hit will get switched back to false...

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!!

Replies(3)

PhiLho

Re: Need help to make a simple timer, sort of a countdown

1 year ago

Idea: make a very simple sketch illustrating what you are trying to do, with a simple circle for your player.
Thus, we have something to run and to play with to try and solve your problem.

v.k.

Re: Need help to make a simple timer, sort of a countdown

1 year ago

something like this?

PFont font;
boolean hit = false;
int hitAt;
int holdTime = 4000; // 4 seconds invulnerable
int timesHit = 0;
void setup ()
{
size (300, 300);
background(0);
font = createFont("Helvetica-Bold", 48);
hitAt = millis() - 4001;
}
void draw()
{
background(0);
fill(255);
textFont(font, 16);
text("I was hit "+nf(timesHit,1)+" times", 30, height- 30);
int elapsed = millis() - hitAt;
if (elapsed < holdTime)
{
if (hit)
{
fill(240, 20, 20);
textFont(font);
text("wasHIT", width/2 - textWidth("wasHIT")/2, height/2);
fill(255);
textFont(font, 16);
text(nf(elapsed, 4), width/2 - textWidth("trying to hit")/2, height/2+25);
}
}
else
{
hit = false;
fill(255);
textFont(font, 16);
text("Click to hit me", width/2 - textWidth("Click to hit me")/2, height/2+50);
}
if (mousePressed && hit) //test for hitting condition, here just mousePressed
{ // and if time has passed
fill(255);
textFont(font, 16);
text("CAN'T HIT!!!", width/2 - textWidth("CAN'T HIT!!!")/2, height/2+50);
}
else if (mousePressed && !hit)
{
hit = true;
hitAt = millis();
timesHit++;
}
}

d34thst4l..

Re: Re: Need help to make a simple timer, sort of a countdown

1 year ago

Thanks for your help guys, no, im not using mouse presses for this and I actually found a way to do it with someone else's Timer Class. Thanks!!