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Help making my countdown timer GUI more efficeint?
Theres gotta be a way to make it less complicated.
Also I cant figure out how to make the timer reset after the time runs out.
local seconds = 0
local minutes = 5
script.Parent.Text = tostring(seconds)
script.Parent.Minutes.Text = tostring(minutes)
while seconds <= 60 do
script.Parent.Text = tostring(seconds)
seconds = seconds - 1
wait(1)
if seconds == -1 then
print('1 MINUTE PASSED')
if minutes > 0 then
minutes = minutes - 1
seconds = seconds + 60
end
script.Parent.Minutes.Text = tostring(minutes)
end
if seconds == -1 and minutes == 0 then
seconds = seconds + 63 -- Abitrary number to stop the loop
script.Parent.Visible = false
script.Parent.Minutes.Visible = false
script.Parent.Parent.TIMESUP.Visible = true
end
end
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http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Loops#For TheeDeathCaster 2368 — 6y
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minutes = 2 -- Sets initial timer
seconds = 0
while minutes > 0 or seconds > 0 do -- If timer has time, loop
seconds = seconds - 1
if seconds < 0 then -- once seconds have run out, reset seconds and lower minutes by 1
seconds = 59
minutes = minutes - 1
print("1 minute passed")
end
wait(1)
print(minutes, seconds) -- sorry, I couldn't make it fancier
end
print("Achievement get: 2 minutes and 0 seconds wasted") -- Run code when timer runs out
This creates a pretty easy minutes, seconds timer. Optionally, you could only input seconds and divide to get the minutes, seconds.
seconds = 120 -- Sets initial timer
while seconds > 0 do -- If timer has time, loop
seconds = seconds - 1
print(math.floor(seconds / 60), math.fmod(seconds, 60)) -- math.floor() returns the minutes. It divides the current amount of seconds by 60 and cuts off the decimal. math.fmod() returns the seconds. It returns the remainder of seconds divided by 60.
if math.fmod(seconds, 60) == 0 then -- if seconds divided by 60 = 0, print the message. In other words, there are 0 seconds, a new minute started.
print("60 seconds passed")
end
wait(1)
end
print("Achievement get: 120 seconds wasted")
To make the timer reset, you could put the entire thing in a while true do end loop. Whenever the timer is done, it will reset automatically
Also, as TheeDeathCaster mentioned, you could easily just use a for loop for casual purposes.
for seconds = 120, 0, -1 do
print(seconds)
wait(1)
end -- Wow! So compact!