Playtime Counter (h2)

Name	By
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.

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

2. Next you are going to want to create a value somewhere. Name it playtime & set the default value to 0.

Resources

Name	Description
playtime_counter-2.zip	A working .ved file, complete with resources. Check out the readme.txt file for instructions.