Timers

Some small snippets about timers, You can just copy/paste them in your script, results will be displayed in the maratis console window

Basic Timer

   t = 0
   function onSceneUpdate()
       t = t + 1 -- count + 1 every frames
       print(t)
   end

Basic Timer + Action

   t = 0
   function onSceneUpdate()
       t = t + 1
       if t == 120 then
           print("2 seconds")
           t = 0 -- reset timer to 0, so it will loop forever
           -- do something else here
       end
   end

Count Seconds

   ms = 0
   seconds = 0
   function onSceneUpdate()
       ms = ms + 1
       if ms == 60 then 
           seconds = seconds + 1
           ms = 0
           print(seconds, "<- Seconds")
       end
   end

Start/Stop timer on key press

   timestart = false
   t = 0
   function onSceneUpdate()
       if onKeyDown("SPACE") and timestart == false then
           timestart = true 
           print("START")
       elseif onKeyDown("SPACE") and timestart == true then
           timestart = false 
           print("STOP")
       end
       if timestart == true then 
           t = t + 1 
           print(t, "<- time")
       end
   end