Real time vs gameplay time - on screen counters help

Unity Engine
1

Hi guys.

I’m new to Unity and looking for a simple way to convert 30 realtime seconds into 1 DAY of gameplay time and display that on screen as GUI text.

E.g. I have a game where the your character is in prison and I want a counter to tick over from ‘DAY 1’ to ‘DAY 2’ (and so on) every 30 seconds.

Can anyone please suggest a script for that? I’d prefer JS (since it’s what I’m learning), but C# is fine too.

Thanks.

2

I would do something like this.

var nextDay : float = 30;
var day : int = 1;

function Update () {

	if(nextDay > 0) {
		nextDay -= Time.deltaTime;
	}
	else {
		nextDay = 30;
		day += 1;
	}	
}
3

Thanks for the quick response jessee03.

I’ll try this out shortly.

4

Invokerepeating works nicely in that situation also… especially if you don’t currently have an update function in play

5

Hi novashot. How would you use that function exactly in the scenario I described? Thanks.

6

Hey jessee03

That worked great. Thanks.

To make it show up in the game I added this line: guiText.text = “Day” + " " + day;

and attached the script to a GUI Text Game Object.

How would you pause the timer for an event and then have the timer continue once that event has finished?

I want the player to make some decisions at the end of each day. Once that decision has been made the timer continues.

Thanks.

7

You should be able to use Time.timeScale = 0; which will stop time. If that doesn’t work and you just want to stop the timer itself and not the entire game just do this.

    var nextDay : float = 30;
    var day : int = 1;
    var pauseTime : boolean;
    function Update () {
     
	if(pauseTime == false) {
        	if(nextDay > 0) {
            		nextDay -= Time.deltaTime;
        	}
        	else {
            		nextDay = 30;
            		day += 1;
        	}
	}   
    }