Gamemode HUD Timer

[HY-Periodix]

I'm trying to make a gamemode and add a timer. I got it to appear, but the thing is it isn't synced to the server. I put the timer code in shared.lua and the HUD code in cl_init.lua.

function GameTimer()
        STimer = 0
	MTimer = 0
	timer.Create("DoorTimer",1,0,function() STimer = STimer + 1 if STimer == 60 then STimer = 0 MTimer = MTimer + 1 end end)
end

function GM:HUDPaint()
	
	self:PaintWorldTips()

	-- Draw all of the default stuff
	BaseClass.HUDPaint( self )
	
	self:PaintNotes()
	
	local ply = LocalPlayer()
	
	surface.CreateFont( "MyFont", {
	font = "Arial",
	size = 28,
	weight = 500,
	blursize = 0,
	scanlines = 0,
	antialias = true,
	underline = false,
	italic = false,
	strikeout = false,
	symbol = false,
	rotary = false,
	shadow = false,
	additive = false,
	outline = false,
} )
	surface.SetTextColor(255, 255, 255, 255)
	surface.SetTextPos( 20,20 )
	surface.SetFont( "MyFont" )
	surface.DrawText(tostring(MTimer)..":"..tostring(STimer))
end

[crazyscouter]

For one, remove your surface.CreateFont code from HUDPaint. It's called every frame; you'll eventually run out of memory and crash. Not related to your particular issue, but it's still a problem.

[Acecool]

Definitely do what crazyscouter says, and adding to that: here's an example of a timer which syncs to the client.
[url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26074909/tutoring/vgui/sh_hud_countdown.lua.html[/url]

timer.TimeLeft can be used to accomplish the same thing though ( with networking it ), but knowing how to calculate time remaining vs time-elapsed is simple, but good to know.

[HY-Periodix]

[QUOTE=Acecool;45982919]Definitely do what crazyscouter says, and adding to that: here's an example of a timer which syncs to the client.
[url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26074909/tutoring/vgui/sh_hud_countdown.lua.html[/url]

timer.TimeLeft can be used to accomplish the same thing though ( with networking it ), but knowing how to calculate time remaining vs time-elapsed is simple, but good to know.[/QUOTE]

The guide was helpful and i almost got it, but my timer is supposed to count up. Any idea how to do that?

[Acecool]

Use the time elapsed calculation instead of time-remaining.

[HY-Periodix]

[QUOTE=Acecool;45992184]Use the time elapsed calculation instead of time-remaining.[/QUOTE]

I got it to work and it's well synced, but when I connect two clients their times are off by around 10-20 seconds. Not really a huge problem for me, but it would be helpful to fix it.

[Acecool]

CurTime should be synced between all clients... The time should send the starting time that was captured from server CurTime to all clients, so all clients should get a start time and the duration, then process the calculations by themselves...

I'll double check / look into it. But, what you could try is replace all CurTime with RealTime, etc...

[HY-Periodix]

Got it working thanks for the help!