Attack speed

Questions & Answers
1

I have my ai setup but am confused on how to setup my timer to not keep repeating itself.

Right now it’s setup so if the enemy is within a certain distance of the player it deals damage everytime the update function is called. How would I make it so once the player is within the attack range of an enemy that it starts a timer and then when the timers up it deals damage unless the player exceeds the distance which would stop the timer.

If I made it so the timer is called constantly when the player is in range it would be a big mess of the same timer being called a ton of times.

2

Well i would use a timeout value when the next attack will happen.
Something like:

var attackDelay  = 1.0f;
private var nextDamageEvent : float;

function Update()
{
    if ($PlayerIsInRange$)
    {
        if (Time.time >= nextDamageEvent)
        {
            nextDamageEvent = Time.time + attackDelay;
            // Do damage here
        }
    }
    else
    {
        nextDamageEvent = Time.time + attackDelay;
    }
}