I'm doing the 'Cooldown' WRONG! (help?)

Hello All,

As I keep progressing working on my very first game on C3... I'm experimenting things.

on my actual game things are much more complex even for me to follow, so I re-create a minimalistic .capx with almost the same idea.

In my actual game-project I uses functions and animation priority so it's not exactly the same, I still want to see if I can re-create the solution on my game-project.

Cooldown:

My first attention was to make a Timer for the Cooldown, with no variables or anything but when I tried to do so I got confused and I tried a different approach which is "almost" working but not really.

I describe on the attached .capx how to create the BUG, but I'll explain it also in here in case you didn't download it yet. the Debug-Mode shows the issue as well.

The Bug:

If on the start of the level you'll press 'C' many times as fast as you can,

it will spawn more than 1 splash attack, that's the bug.

My goal is to limit attack to: only one per X time.

(probably less than a second but I will be able to change it).

Thanks ahead for any alternative stable solution.

Download .capx file HERE !

See image.

Use a cooldown timer and count down per tick (subtract the cooldown timer by `dt` -- delta time). Only when cooldown timer is <=0 can the player attack.

In the image above I did not cap the cooldown_timer to 0, so it will keep on counting down. You should put something like, if cooldown_timer < 0, then cooldown_timer=0.

See image.

Use a cooldown timer and count down per tick (subtract the cooldown timer by `dt` -- delta time). Only when cooldown timer is <=0 can the player attack.

In the image above I did not cap the cooldown_timer to 0, so it will keep on counting down. You should put something like, if cooldown_timer < 0, then cooldown_timer=0.

Thank you for the image and explanation, I will try to follow and do this.

For matter of my organization: Can I use an Instance Variable on the Player like rest of the variables?

or I must use a local variable like you did? I'm not sure if it matters or not as I'm still learning.

to be honest I don't understand everything yet but maybe after I'll try to build it following your image it will make more sense to me.

Generally speaking, you should use instance variables if it relates particularly to the instance. In the case of `cooldown_time`, this seems best to be put in an instance variable of the player since other NPCs/enemies may have a different `cooldown_time`. Or maybe the player, in future 'levels' may improve their rate of attack separate from other entities.