The Timer Object Suggestion / Request

[joewski]

The timer object has some great features and is pretty simple.

There is a feature that I would dearly like to be added though and that is an ability to offset the every condition by some amount of time.

For example if I what one condition to test every 30sec but offset it by 15 seconds then do actions say turn light on.
Then I have a second condition test every 30 seconds, then do actions say turn light off.

This would allow to make simple oscillations and other effects which can be out of phase with each other.

I know there are alternative ways to do this but they tend to be convoluted and the idea of clicking is to make things easy as possible.

[DanielRehn]

Ever tried Function Eggtimer??
[obj_eggtimer]
If I understand you correctly this should be able to help ya...

[joewski]

Not really but as I said its a bit convoluted in its approach, having to set up funtions etc.

To my mind I would like to see a condition that read something like ;-

[Events]
* [obj_thetimer] Every 1-00"-00 offset 15"
[/Events]

[thewreck]

If you do this:

* Timer is greater than 02"-00
+ Every 05"-0

Then the first action will start at 7 seconds. However, this wont help you if you want to delay by something smaller than the every conditions.

A better way to do things is this:

Name a counter/globalvalue/alterablevalue to "GameTime" somewhere.
Add a condition:

*Always
-Add 1 to game time

Then, instead of checking "every bla bla", do this:

*Compare two general values:
"value( "GameTime" ) mod 50" IS EQUAL TO : 0

mod 50 means 1 second.

"(value( "GameTime" ) -25) mod 50"

This will mean delay by 0.5 seconds, and then do it every second after that.

[joewski]

Sorry to post to an old post but I finally found an easy way to do this. I posted an example here