20 Second Timer

[OhioianOG2]

How would you make a 20 second countdown displaying it on a Game overlay.

[SilverCat11]

That’s what I am wondering too! I was just about to post the same question.

[Kosm0-o]

More Efficient Overlay Timer

Credit to JoeTheChicken (https://forum.creative.gimkit.com/u/JoeTheChicken) for inspiration. Here is the link to the original timer How to make a colon-separated timer (Difficulty: ). To create an overlay timer, you only need 3 properties, 1 game overlay device, 1 repeater, and 1 button/lifecycle. This saves slightly more memory than the original clock. Name one of each the properties “hours”, “minutes”, or “seconds” for organization. The properties should all have a starting value of 0 and…

[OhioianOG2]

This counts up, not down.

[SilverCat11]

Yeah, you know that tag game mode? I think you want the timer like that?

[OhioianOG2]

Yep, But counting down from 20.

[Kosm0-o]

then set the properties to have the default value of x. x is the starting value of the timer. then in the block code make everything that says plus into a minus.

[SilverCat11]

exactly! I’m trying to do it too

[Kosm0-o]

then this also works.

@Kosm0-o

If you want an overlay timer then you just need a lifecycle, repeater, property(name: timer, default value 900) and overlay.
Wires: Lifecycle(game start) [event occurs → start repeater] repeater (1.0 sec).
Channels: Repeater task run, broadcast on channel “sec” .
Blocks (for overlay when receiving on channel “sec”):
set variable “t” to get property “timer”
change variable “t” by -1
set text | Create Text with "Timer: "
---------------------------------------- variable “t”
--------------------------------------- “seconds”
set property “timer”
value variable “t”

[SilverCat11]

HOLLY COW! Um…that’s kinda complicated

[Kosm0-o]

no. no it’s not. not at all…
right?

[OhioianOG2]

To a person with 0 knowledge of block code it is lmao

(aka me lol)

[Kosm0-o]

but I ut all the instructions in there.

[OhioianOG2]

It still very confusion

[OhioianOG2]

Ima try the stuff you sent @Kosm0-o out rq

[OhioianOG2]

Yep it works, Thank you!

[Kosm0-o]

np, happy to help!