Help make this timer work?

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1

Hey guys,

Trying to get a timer working on my game.
The point of the timer is, that when it runs out the player will lose.

Here is the script where I am trying to initiate the timer

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Mouth : MonoBehaviour {
GameObject other;
public AudioClip MouthReaction;
float timeout = 1.65f;
private float timer = 0.0f;


void  Start (){
other = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Commands");
	
	}

void  OnMouseDown (){
   if(Commands.Command == 1)
   {
    other.GetComponent<Commands>().Respawn();
	audio.PlayOneShot(MouthReaction);
    Score.GameScore += 50;
    }
    else
	Application.LoadLevel ("Lose");
    print("You Lose");
		
	}
	

void Update()
{  timer += Time.deltaTime;
	
     { if (Commands.Command == 1)
 			   if (timer > timeout)
				Application.LoadLevel ("Lose"); 	
    }
	
   
		}


    
}

And here is the other script it is calling to

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Commands : MonoBehaviour {
public float Speed = 0.5f;
public static int Command = 0;
public static int LastCommand = 0;
public float TimeLeft = 0;
public Texture2D mouth;
public Texture2D eye;
public Texture2D nose;
public Texture2D ear;
private Texture2D myimage;
public  AudioClip MouthCommand;
public  AudioClip EyeCommand;
public  AudioClip EarCommand;
public  AudioClip NoseCommand;


void OnGUI (){
       GUI.DrawTexture(new Rect(Screen.width / 2, Screen.height -120, 200,100), myimage);
    }

void  Start (){
Command = Random.Range(0,5);
}


void  Update (){

TimeLeft += Time.deltaTime;

if(TimeLeft >2)
{
Respawn();
}


transform.Translate(Vector3.up * Time.deltaTime * Speed); // Translate it up

    if(transform.position.y >= 1.65f)            // Respawn it
    {
    Respawn();
    }

    if(LastCommand != Command)
    {
        LastCommand = Command;
        switch(Command)
        {
           case 1:
                 myimage = mouth;
                 audio.PlayOneShot(MouthCommand);
                 break;
           case 2:
                 myimage = eye;
                 audio.PlayOneShot(EyeCommand);
                 break;
           case 3:
                 myimage = nose;
                 audio.PlayOneShot(NoseCommand);
                 break;
           case 4:
                 myimage = ear;
                 audio.PlayOneShot(EarCommand);
                 break;
        }
    }



}



public void  Respawn (){

    TimeLeft = 0;
    transform.position = new Vector3(Random.Range(0.2f,0.9f), 0.4f, transform.position.z);
    Command = Random.Range(1,5);

}



}

The problem with this scripting is that it straight away goes to the “Lose” scene. I want the timer to be the same amount of time before the next command would spawn.

2

I am not sure of what you are trying to do, your code is a bit messy, BUT:

You seem to be assuming that Command is an integer, when it is actually a random float, so it will hardly ever have the exact values of 1, 2, 3 or 4.

For that reason, whenever you click on a Mouth object, it will load the Lose scene, because Command will hardly ever be 1.

You should round the result of Random.Range if you want it to be an integer:

Mathf.Round(Random.Range(0,4));

PS: By the way, I think you have a curly bracket mess in the Update method of the Mouth class.

3

Apparently, your timeout variable is set to low in the Mouth script, just 1.65 seconds. If Commands.Command is 1, the Mouth script loads the Lose level directly after just 1.65 seconds!