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AFRLme: Created page with "{| class="ts" style="width:100%" |- ! style="text-align:left" | Name !! style="text-align:left;width:10%" | By {{lee_PP}} |- | Playtime Counter (action part, value & lua) || A..."

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Created page with "{| class="ts" style="width:100%" |- ! style="text-align:left" | Name !! style="text-align:left;width:10%" | By {{lee_PP}} |- | Playtime Counter (action part, value & lua) || A..."

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{| class="ts" style="width:100%"
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Name !! style="text-align:left;width:10%" | By {{lee_PP}}
|-
| Playtime Counter (action part, value & lua) || AFRLme
|}

This tutorial shows you how to create a playtime counter using a single value, some action parts & a few lines of Lua script.

== Tutorial ==
1. Create a new script, inside of the script section of the editor & add the script inside of the code block below into it.
<syntaxhighlight>
local d, h, m, s -- empty variables which will be used to store converted time values

--* function which converts seconds to days, hours, minutes & seconds * --
function secondsToTime(v)
d = math.floor(v / 86400)
h = math.floor(v % 86400 / 3600)
m = math.floor(v % 3600 / 60)
s = math.floor(v % 3600 % 60)
-- + --
if d < 10 then d = tostring("0" .. d) end
if h < 10 then h = tostring("0" .. h) end
if m < 10 then m = tostring("0" .. m) end
if s < 10 then s = tostring("0" .. s) end
-- + --
return tostring( d .. ":" .. h .. ":" .. m .. ":" .. s )
end

-- * function which converts seconds to days * --
function secondsToDays(v)
v = math.floor(v / 86400)
-- + --
if v < 10 then v = tostring("0" .. v) end
-- + --
return tostring( v )
end

-- * function which converts seconds to hours * --
function secondsToHours(v, b)
if b then v = math.floor(v % 86400 / 3600) else v = math.floor(v / 3600) end
-- + --
if v < 10 then v = tostring("0" .. v) end
-- + --
return tostring( v )
end

-- * function which converts seconds to minutes * --
function secondsToMinutes(v)
v = math.floor(v % 3600 / 60)
-- + --
if v < 10 then v = tostring("0" .. v) end
-- + --
return tostring( v )
end

-- * function which converts seconds to seconds (remainder) * --
function secondsToSeconds(v)
v = math.floor(v % 3600 % 60)
-- + --
if v < 10 then v = tostring("0" .. v) end
-- + --
return tostring( v )
end
</syntaxhighlight>

[[File:playtime_counter2_0.png|800px]]

2. First off you are going to want to create an object in your scene that you will be assigning the lighting image to.

[[File:Dyn_light_001.png|800px]]

== Resources ==
{| class="ts"
|-
! style="text-align:left" | Name !! style="text-align:left" | Description
|-
| [[media:playtime_counter-2.zip|playtime_counter-2.zip]] || A working .ved file, complete with resources. Check out the readme.txt file for instructions.
|}{{toc}}

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 . Inside of the '''update_playtime_text''' action: add these action parts...
 <pre>
-display background narration text > '<vs=playtime><p150ms>' or display object text '<vs=playtime>'
+display background narration text: '<vs=playtime><p150ms>' or display object text: '<vs=playtime>'
 pause for 140 milliseconds
 jump to action part #1

@@ Line 82: / Line 82: @@
 . Inside of the '''update_playtime_text''' action: add these action parts...
 <pre>
-display background narration text > '<vs=playtime><p150ms>'
+display background narration text > '<vs=playtime><p150ms>' or display object text '<vs=playtime>'
 pause for 140 milliseconds
 jump to action part #1

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 {| class="ts"
 |-
-| ''d = day, h = hour, m = minute, s = seconds.''
+| ''d = days, h = hours, m = minutes, s = seconds.''
 |-
 | ''There are 86400 seconds in a day, 3600 seconds in an hour & 60 seconds in a minute.''

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−	8. You should call the '''update_playtime''' action at the beginning of each scene & you should ~~quite~~ the '''update_playtime''' action at the end of each scene. This will make sure that the timer is enabled at the beginning of each scene & paused until the next scene is loaded.	+	8. You should call the '''update_playtime''' action at the beginning of each scene & you should quit the '''update_playtime''' action at the end of each scene. This will make sure that the timer is enabled at the beginning of each scene & paused until the next scene is loaded.

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 This tutorial shows you how to create a playtime counter using a single value, some action parts & a few lines of Lua script.
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 . You should call the '''update_playtime''' action at the beginning of each scene & you should quite the '''update_playtime''' action at the end of each scene. This will make sure that the timer is enabled at the beginning of each scene & paused until the next scene is loaded.
 == Resources ==

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 {| class="ts" style="width:100%"
 |-
-! style="text-align:left" | Name !! style="text-align:left;width:10%" | By {{lee_PP}}
+! style="text-align:left" | Name !! style="text-align:left;width:10%" | By
 |-
 | Playtime Counter (action part, value & lua) || AFRLme
-|}
+|}{{AFRLme_Patreon}}
 This tutorial shows you how to create a playtime counter using a single value, some action parts & a few lines of Lua script.

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 local d, h, m, s -- empty variables which will be used to store converted time values
---* function which converts seconds to days, hours, minutes & seconds * --
+--* function which converts seconds to dd:hh:mm:ss time format * --
 function secondsToTime(v)
   d = math.floor(v / 86400)
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 [[File:playtime_counter2_003.png|800px]]
 == Resources ==

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 == Tutorial ==
-. Create a new script, inside of the script section of the editor & add the script inside of the code block below into it.
+. Create a new script inside of the script section of the editor & add the script inside of the code block below into it.
 <syntaxhighlight>
 local d, h, m, s -- empty variables which will be used to store converted time values
@@ Line 29: / Line 29: @@
   return tostring( d .. ":" .. h .. ":" .. m .. ":" .. s )
 end
--- * function which converts seconds to days * --
+. Next you are going to want to create a value somewhere. Name it '''playtime''' & set the default value to '''0'''.
-function secondsToDays(v)
- v = math.floor(v / 86400)
+[[File:playtime_counter2_001.png|800px]]
--- * function which converts seconds to hours * --
+. Now go to the actions tab of the scene that you are wanting to display the timer on. Create an '''at begin of scene''' action, an '''at end of scene''' action & 2 '''called by other actions'''. Name the called by other actions: '''update_playtime''' & '''update_playtime_text'''.
--- * function which converts seconds to minutes * --
+[[File:playtime_counter2_002.png|800px]]
--- * function which converts seconds to seconds (remainder) * --
+. Inside of the '''at begin of scene''' action: add these action parts...
-function secondsToSeconds(v)
+<pre>
- v = math.floor(v % 3600 % 60)
+execute a script > (see code block below)
- -- + --
+call action 'update_playtime_text'
- if v < 10 then v = tostring("0" .. v) end
+call action 'update_playtime'
- -- + --
+</pre>
- return tostring( v )
+<syntaxhighlight>
-end
+Values["playtime"].String = secondsToTime( Values["playtime"].ValueInt )
 </syntaxhighlight>
-. Next you are going to want to create a value somewhere. Name it '''playtime''' & set the default value to '''0'''.
+[[File:playtime_counter2_003.png|800px]]