Timers with f:get_date()

[Moltor]

People keep asking me how I did the timing stuff in Turnabout Party. (I did a similar thing in The Realtime Turnabout also.) So I snagged some screenshots from my Turnabout Party script to explain it.

1: Define a variable to equal the expression f:get_date() at the beginning of the thing you're timing.


2: When you want to check the time, subtract that variable from the result of a later call of f:get_date() to see how many milliseconds have passed. In my case, I also turned milliseconds passed into seconds remaining.


3: Evaluate a condition to decide what to do with this time result. Like, jump to a game over section if you're out of time.


4: Use [#var:t] if you want to show this t variable in some text.

[E.D.Revolution]

I think you need to make a guide for using variables. You seem to understand that better than most of us. All we can do is the basic "press1=1" sort of thing.

[Quadratic]

Hmm... that's very useful, alright. I wonder, what other functions are there? I can see this being used in a trial, to slowly lower your health bar by 1 every second... (Judges are impatient these days...)
Anyone know the other 'f:' 's?

[Moltor]

The tips, tricks, and info thread has moar info about functions and variables and stuff.