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PsycoMania

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2009 16:49

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Hay.

I am making a 3D maze game and trying to get a countdown timer into it. I have the code to make the timer work on its own but i cant get it to apper whithin the game?

im using this countdown timer code:

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_countdown:
set text font "Arial"
set text size 40
for d=500 to 0 step -1
cls
center text (screen width()/2),((screen height()/2)-50),str$(d)
wait 1000
next d

If you can help plz do TY

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Virtual Nomad

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2009 21:05 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2009 21:07

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using wait like that will freeze your game for 500 seconds, as you already know

try this:

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rem screen center
centerX = screen width()/2
centerY = screen height()/2

rem initialize countdown
countstart = 500 `seconds
starttime = timer()
count = countstart-((timer() - starttime)/1000)

do

cls

if count > 0
   count = countstart-((timer() - starttime)/1000)
   center text centerX, centerY, str$(count)
else
   center text centerX, centerY, "Time's Up!"
endif

loop

if you have any questions, just ask.
good luck!

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