how do you turn seconds into minutes and seconds

Hello everyone,

I am making a timer for a game, but at the moment it can only be in seconds (i.e. 100 seconds). Does anyone know how I can turn 100 seconds into 1 min 40 secs. Is this possible using events or will I have to use a piece of python code?

Thanks in advance!

It's easily possible in events! You just need a little math. If seconds is your number in seconds, floor(seconds / 60) is the minutes (divide by 60 and round down), and seconds % 60 is the seconds counter (modulo 60, ie. remainder after dividing by 60).

I made a example for you.

http://download923.mediafire.com/qbn92m ... e/time.cap

Press the A key to start the timer.

It is ascending up to infinite or in this case all the number reach 0:00 and count up again.

thanks toralord and Ashley,

Everybody states (quite rightly) how good construct is, and for me as a newbe to gamemaking it is the only platform I would attempt to write the game i am making at the moment. But the other great thing about construct is how supportive everyone is. I have asked three questions so far and I have never had to wait more than two hours for an answer. People like me are really grateful for the help!

thanks again.

It's easily possible in events! You just need a little math. If seconds is your number in seconds, floor(seconds / 60) is the minutes (divide by 60 and round down), and seconds % 60 is the seconds counter (modulo 60, ie. remainder after dividing by 60).

what if you have above 59 minutes and you want hours too?

> It's easily possible in events! You just need a little math. If seconds is your number in seconds, floor(seconds / 60) is the minutes (divide by 60 and round down), and seconds % 60 is the seconds counter (modulo 60, ie. remainder after dividing by 60).

>

what if you have above 59 minutes and you want hours too?

hours: floor(seconds / 3600) (or: seconds / 60 / 60)

then use the result of seconds modulo 3600 for the rest of the calculations as seen above

totalseconds = 3980

hours = floor(totalseconds / 3600) = 1

totalseconds = totalseconds % 3600 = 380

minutes = floor(totalseconds / 60) = 6

seconds = totalseconds % 60 = 20

ZeroPad(hours, 2) & ":" & ZeroPad(minutes, 2) & ":" & ZeroPad(seconds, 2)

"01:06:20"

yeah, nice

EDIT: I forgot, in case someone asks for days too, just start with floor-dividing by 86400 (=3600 * 24) and use totalseconds % 86400 for the rest of the calculations.

Now try to find yourself the right value for weeks

Cheers!

Also, I'd never noticed that zeropad system expression before - that's really useful!