Time

[Semeon]

Hey,
Is it possible to perform a certain thing (function) for a specific time for example 2 seconds.
After some research I think it has to do something with frames but not quite sure please explain me how it is done thank you!

[steven777]

update variable every revolution

tick = tick +1 -- updated every 1 cycle. 1/100 apx a second

adds time to tick..

tick = tick+dt -- updated every second

[steven777]

this is basic and probably a really poor example but yea it works lol

function keeptime()
tick = tick +1
if tick > 9 and tick < 10
-- call a function
end

if tick > 10 then
tick = 0
end

end

remember that this is based on revolutions ( how many times the script is called )

change tick = tick +1 to tick = tick +dt if you want per second...

[Inny]

You can use cron.lua. It's a very simple library, all you need to do is on the love.update function, call update with the clock.

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myEvent = cron.after(5, function() print("This happens after 5 seconds") end)

function love.update(dt)
  myEvent:update(dt)
end

There are plenty of other timer libraries you can use, but the idea is the same for most of them, keep adding up the dt values that come from love.update.

[Tanner]

HUMP's Timer lib has the function you want: http://hump.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ti ... mer.during