Random Timer

[Oblivion_123]

I want to make a timer so that every minute or so it could do something else. What is it that I want it to do is irrelevant however, I would like to know if it is possible to make a timer that could do something when the timer ends.

Any help is much appreciated,
Thanks!

[pgimeno]

Sure! You can have a function like this:

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local function timer_end()
  local rand = love.math.random(1, 5) -- 5 possible things to do in this example
  if rand == 1 then
    -- do thing #1
  elseif rand == 2 then
    -- do thing #2
  elseif rand == 3 then
    -- do thing #3
  elseif rand == 4 then
    -- do thing #4
  else
    -- do thing #5
  end
end

If you use a timer library which accepts a callback function, you would pass it timer_end as the callback.

If you don't, you can make your own timer using a variable, with something like this:

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local timer_period = 60 -- time in seconds of each timer tick, 60 means 1 minute
local timer = timer_period

function love.update(dt)
  timer = timer - dt
  if timer <= 0 then
    timer_end() -- call the callback
    timer = timer + timer_period
  end
end

[Oblivion_123]

Cheers dude, thanks a lot for the help!