Question about Time / timer / timing games

[slash000]

Question. I know how to time a single frame, that's easy.

Is there any way to start a "global timer" at frame 2, and then output the "total time" expended across frames 2, 3, 4, and 5, and output the time on Frame 6?

Thanks guys

[DavidN]

Yes - I tend to do it by counting the number of gameplay frames that have been drawn by having events in each frame that Always -> Add 1 to [a global value], and then calculating the time elapsed from that at the end.

But if you're just after a simple timer, you could also do it by having "Every 1 second -> Add 1 to [a global value]" on each frame that you want to time, to get the total number of seconds at the end. The number stored in the global value will be carried over between frames, so each frame will add to it further.

[slash000]

That's absolutely brilliant, David! Thank you so very much! You're the best!