Control the timer ticking

[Fedaykin]

Hi,

I'm trying to achieve the same effect as in Elite : when the timer first approaches 0 it doesn't tick.

But if my EndTime is in 45 seconds, it starts ticking at 15 seconds left. Is there anyway to mute this ticking ? Or choose from which seconds remaining it starts ticking ? Or to have an EndTime different from the time displayed ?

Thanks

[Eole]

You can use two different timers in ManiaScript

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// Countdown turn red under 15 seconds
// For all players
EndTime = 60000;

// For one specific player
Player.EndTime = 60000;

// Countdown turn green under 5 seconds
// For all players
UIManager.UIAll.CountdownEndTime = 60000;

// For one specific player
declare UI <=> UIManager.GetUI(Player);
if (UI != Null) UI.CountdownEndTime = 60000;

[Fedaykin]

Indeed I can set the EndTime to 60000. But in this case players won't see the timer approaching 0.

The behaviour I'm trying to achieve is the following, exactly the same as in Elite :

45 => 0 (with no ticking sound) then 15 => 0 (with ticking)

Edit : My bad I never paid attention that the 45 => 0 timer was the one turning green

[Eole]

The 60000 value was just here as an example, I didn't thought it would be confusing with Elite. ^^'

And indeed, in Elite the first timer use CountdownEndTime with a value of 45000, then the second timer use EndTime with a value of 15000 milliseconds.

[steeffeen]

i know it's a quite old thread but my question fits to the topic

when using UI.CountdownEndTime instead of EndTime the end of the countdown isn't announced really well
with EndTime the tick sound will become much louder so that everybody notices the end of the countdown but with CountdownEndTime the end is most likely to be not noticed

it would be great if CountdownEndTime would announce the end of the countdown just like EndTime

[Eole]

The two timers don't serve the same purpose. One is more for announcing the end of something and must be heard. The other is used for a transition to another phase, and should be less intrusive. That's why they sound so different. But maybe the volume of CountdownEndTime can be tweak a little.

[steeffeen]

Thanks for your response.
I totally get your point but my problem is that the players won't recognize that the phase is about to change because there is no proper announcement =/ EndTime can't be used for that as the players get invincible at EndTime >= Now and i need that the timer counts up after reaching its end, that would need StartTime to be set to Now but then the players are invincible again..
in Elite it's no problem that the end isn't announced that much as the round only lasts 45 seconds and you kind of feel when it's about to end, but in other modes the round lasts usually longer, like 4 minutes in mine

do you have any suggestions for a workaround? i tried to announce the end of the countdown by myself but the usual tick sounds can't be accessed and there is no proper sound available if you ask me, maybe if EUISound::Warning would have more variants..

[Eole]

You can try to combine several feedbacks. If the players don't pay attention to the timer, you can display a BigMessage 15 seconds before the end of the timer for a few seconds. Something like: "Phase change in 15 seconds" with UI.BigMessageSound = CUIConfig::EUISound::Warning or something like that. Then the players will pay attention to the timer and see it's close to 0.

[steeffeen]

I will try something like that, thanks for the input!