Coalition in Zone Timer

[Invisibull]

Hi -

 

I'm making a dogfight scenario where the side who can stay within a zone for X amount of time wins. I'd like it to be cumulative so either side can enter and leave the zone numerous times but their total time within the zone is always being calculated. It would also be a plus if i can show players updates for time in zone in a useful way. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

Regards,

Bull

[Grimes]

Scripting!

 

Use the following:

Once>Time More than 1> Do Script

Type this into the do script box:

redscore = 0

bluescore = 0

 

With the remaining triggers use:

Continuous>Part of Red Coalition in Zone>Do Script( redscore = redscore + 1)

Continuous>Part of BlueCoalition in Zone>Do Script( bluescore = bluescore + 1)

Continuous>Time More than 1>Do Script

display = {}
display[#display + 1] = 'Red team time in zone: '
display[#display + 1] = redscore
display[#display + 1] = '\n'
display[#display + 1] = 'Blue team time in zone: '
display[#display + 1] = bluescore

trigger.action.outText(table.concat(display), 2) 

 

The time will be displayed in seconds only. If you want it to display minutes also you will have to do a little extra work to convert it to minutes, but its not that bad.

[Invisibull]

Hi Grimes, thanks for your reply. I've never worked with scripting before and so I have no idea where that code goes, and would love to display in minutes/seconds but i have no idea what i'd change to do so.

[Grimes]

Trigger action "Do Script" has a little text box and that is where you copy and paste the scripts to. I'll whip up a little mission real fast as a demo. Will post it later.

[Grimes]

See attached file. I've set it up pretty much exactly as described above. The only difference is I added a function that converts the time in seconds to display in m:ss format.

Zone_Time_count_demo.miz

[Invisibull]

Grimes, thanks a bunch. I'll check this out soon. +1