Timer

[GodOfYeti]

What would be the easiest way to make a simple timer I know there is Thread.sleep() but half the time it crashes the game

[Draco18s]

Thread.sleep()

 

Why does everyone think that pausing an application is the same thing as a timer?

[BuddingDev]

Draco:

Actually when newbies show up here (including me) they always search for some stuff named sleep or wait to pause the execution of some script. (Wait to spawn another stuff, for another particle...)

What they (including me) did not know is that it actually stops the whole minecraft, causing client and server to get messed up in the sync, or crashed as {Ticking Entity} etc.

 

Actually we can use onUpdate functions to count timers. (items and entities have this called every tick)

[Draco18s]

Which only works in a multithreaded application, which most applications are not.  That's what gets me.

[delpi]

Lots of other scripting languages for games have a sleep function.  Its something used very often in the Arma Engines.

 

I've seen it far more often than not.

[Draco18s]

Lots of other scripting languages for games have a sleep function.  Its something used very often in the Arma Engines.

 

I've seen it far more often than not.

 

OK, fair; I've seen it in Unity3D.  But the command actually spawns a thread and you can't call it from within certain functions (such as the update function) and will throw a compile error if you try.  I used it a few times, but I've done my best to avoid it (can't recall an instance off-hand to remember why I needed it).