How to timers work? I'm very confused

mike7077 · February 1, 2024, 4:34pm

Godot Version

v4.2.1.stable.official [b09f793f5]

Question

I’m trying to make a countdown timer from 90 seconds and I’ve watched may tutorials online but I can’t get them to work right.

Here is the code I have so far from a tutorial I found:

extends Label3D

func _process(delta):
$Time_left.text = “%s” % $Timer.time_left

and I’m getting these errors

here are the nodes I’m working with

nodes

What am I doing wrong?

zdrmlpzdrmlp · February 1, 2024, 5:16pm

change to this

extends Label3D

func _process(delta):
	text = "%s" %$"../Timer".time_left

the quick reference with $ sign is routed from the script node where it belongs, or use an absolute path of /root/

you can also assign as a unique name first like this

then click,drag and drop the node with unique name into the script code to reference it from script

mike7077 · February 1, 2024, 5:33pm

It seems that no matter what I do I keep getting the “Node not found” Error and crashes on run.

zdrmlpzdrmlp · February 1, 2024, 5:35pm

may i see your current label3d’s script code? (Time_left)

mike7077 · February 1, 2024, 5:35pm

extends Label3D

func _process(delta):
text = “%s” %%“…/Timer”.time_left

zdrmlpzdrmlp · February 1, 2024, 5:37pm

extends Label3D

func _process(delta):
	text = "%s" % %Timer.time_left

mike7077 · February 1, 2024, 5:40pm

I have no idea why this is not working when it should.

zdrmlpzdrmlp · February 1, 2024, 5:41pm

what the error said? because reference like this usually doesnt work most of the time, would be better to put the %Timer to @onready first with a variable name, then reference like that

the time_left property also is a float, so you want to convert it first by str()