Played time?

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Is there a variable that you can set to see how long you’r playing the current scene? I would realy like to make like a guilabel in the left corner of my screen saying how long the player is already playing.
Ty!

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if im correct:

  • Time.Time is loaded with the app.
  • Time.timeSinceLevelLoad is loaded
    since the level is loaded.
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You just need to have a variable that increments itself each second. Here’s a very simple script. First go to GameObject>CreateOther>GUIText.

Drag this script into an empty game object and add the GUIText that you created into the timeDisplay variable in the inspector window

var playedTime : float;
var timeDisplay : GUIText;

function Start(){
    playedTime = 0.0;
}    

function Update(){

    playedTime += Time.deltaTime;
    timeDisplay.text = Mathf.RoundToInt(playedTime).ToString();

}

This script should work, tried already. I Hope this helped

-Vatsal

I would suggest using co-routines for this, in your start() method call a coroutine that yields for 1 second at a time and use Time.timeSinceLevelLoad. This will have a much lower overhead than running on each update - otherwise I would question your players need to know time to a fraction of a second. Note: this may break if you are using addative level loading (not tested this - just a hunch)

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Why not just using Time.time?

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