Timer not counting down in seconds

Questions & Answers
1

I have a counter that did work but now counts down from 100 in around 3 seconds. I need it to count down one very second.

var score = 0;
var timer = 100;
var scoreText = "Score: 0";
var levelToLoad : String;
 
function Start()
{

}
 
 
function Update()
{
	
   timer = timer - Time.deltaTime;
   
   Debug.Log(timer);
   
   if (score < 1)
   {
  		 Application.LoadLevel(levelToLoad);
   }
 
}

function OnGUI () 
{
     GUI.Label (Rect (10, 10, 100, 20), scoreText + score);
}
 
function addsometoscore()
{
	score += 20;
}
2

Just tested it out, declare your timer variable explicitly as float and it should work:

var timer : float = 100;
void Update()
{
   timer -= Time.deltaTime;
   print (timer);
}

If you don’t explicitly declare your variable as a float, it will default to System.Int32 which seems to be causing this fast countdown - To prove it:

var timer = 100;
void Start()
{
   print (typeof(timer));
}

If you were on C# you’d get an error right away telling you Cannot convert float to int - because:

timer = timer - Time.deltaTime
int   = int   - float
int   = float?

There has to be a match when you assign a value to varible. Not sure how JS even allow this to happen.