Time.time doesn't reset - help!

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Hey, so I am making a energyBar. And I until now I can fill and and unfill the bar over time using Time.time.

This works perfectly for the first try (when I press the key that executes energy draining).
But on the second time when I press the key it all screws up.

To clear things up: (barDisplay)value 1f is 100% of the bar. Meaning 0.1f is 10% of the bar.
So I subtract 0.25f over time to decrease the percentage over time. And add 0.1f to the bar to fill it up over time.
So it goes from 1f to 0f over time, and fills up from 0f to 1f over time just fine.

What does not work: When I press the key the second time, the “barDisplay” starts on -1f (meaning -100% of the bar)… It seems that it doesn’t reset it to 1f for the second time i press the key. Meaning I can’t go from 100% to 0% over time the second time the button is pressed.

Could you please help me out?

I’m new to coding and unity and i’m making my first game ever, so help is VERY much appreciated.(maybe theres another way to do it as well?)

Code (written in C#):

void Update () {
		Debug.Log(barDisplay); //Log barDisplay in console
		if(!timeBool && !CDbool){ //This is what I've tried... but doesn't reset it to 1.
			barDisplay = 1f;
		}
		if(timeBool){
                	barDisplay =   1f - Time.time * 0.25f; //decreases from 1 to 0 over X seconds
		}

		if(CDbool)
            	{
                	barDisplay = Time.time * 0.1f; //fills up the bar again
		}
	}
2

Read the documentation on Time.time. Time.time is the time in seconds since the start of the game.

So after a while, Time.time will be really large, and you will get a negative value when you calculate 1f - Time.time * 0.25f. I do not know how you get -1 for the barDisplay, but I can tell you that using Time.time will not work for emptying/refilling a bar.

You should use your own float to keep track of the time for the emptying and refilling. Something like this:

private float _barTime;

void Start() {
   _barTime = 0f;
}

void Update() {
   _barTime += Time.deltaTime;


   ...


   //Reset the time whenever you are done with it
   _barTime = 0f;
}