Server restart timed announcements (script)

[strikers_blade]

I know, it is most likely a LUA newbie 101 kind of question but the more I look into it, the more confused I am getting :(

 

My task is stupidly simple; As soon as you start the mission, I want to announce every so hour that the server will reset in so many hours. I already do it with the mission editor with a series of trigger. I now want to move away from the triggers and code all of it into a LUA file (to minimize the triggers amount).

 

Unless I am wrong, I should not be using MOOSE, MIST or any other 3rd party script just for such simple coding, right?

 

If I look on HOGGIT, it gives me two options; timer.scheduleFunction or timer.getTime . First option being way more than what I actually need, I settled with the 2nd, which should be stupidly straight forward.

 

Here is just a quick example;

local countdown = timer.getTime()

 

if countdown > 10 then

trigger.action.outText("STEP 1",5)

end

if countdown > 20 then

trigger.action.outText("STEP 2",5)

end

 

Obviously, it doesn't work.

Why can't it be that simple?

 

P.S. You are more than welcome to suggest good resource material beside lua.org and tutorialspoint.com

[PravusJSB]

So timer.getTime() gets you the current mission time in seconds, as in 15:32, it's always going to be above 20, you need to reference the time first then do some maths.

local timethen

function myfunc()

 if timethen== nil then timethen= timer.getTime() end

local timenow = timer.getTime()

local countdown = timenow - timethen

if countdown > 10 then
trigger.action.outText("STEP 1",5)
end
if countdown > 20 then
trigger.action.outText("STEP 2",5)
end

timer.scheduleFunction(myfunc, {}, timer.getTime() + 2)

end