Timer syncing in seconds

[magele]

Godot Version

4.3

Question

Hello! I made a timer for a speedrun mode in my game, but i found out on some phones the timer is FASTER than on other phones. (i think) in Unity there is something called delta time, does this also exist in godot?

[gertkeno]

Can you show your script? Godot does have delta time for functions like _process and _physics_process

Though a better way may be to get how many milliseconds since the start of the program using Time.get_ticks_msec(), capturing this “tick” when the game starts and reading the value as a difference since then.

var game_time_tick: int
func game_start() -> void:
    game_time_tick = Time.get_ticks_msec()

func _process(_delta: float) -> void:
    var elapsed := Time.get_ticks_msec() - game_time_tick
    # a good idea to do a little bit of math to get minutes
    # and seconds instead of just milliseconds like this
    $TimeLabel.text = str(elapsed) + "ms"

[magele]

I used for now theawait get_tree().create_timer(4.0).timeout code, and heres all of the timer:

extends Label
var timer
var milisec = 0
var sec = 0
var min = 0
@onready var end_time_det = $"/root/EndTimeDetector"

func _ready() -> void:
	set_process(false)
	await get_tree().create_timer(4.0).timeout
	set_process(true)
func _process(delta: float) -> void:
	await get_tree().create_timer(0.01).timeout
	milisec += 1
	if milisec == 60:
		sec +=1
		milisec = 0
		if sec == 60:
			min += 1
			sec=0
	timer = str(min)+":"+str(sec)+":"+str(ceil(milisec*1.3))
	end_time_det.get_time(min, sec, milisec)
	$".".text = timer

[gertkeno]

Notice your _process does have delta too, that counts seconds per-frame so you could use sec += delta.

Don’t await anything every frame, in addition the create_timer ends up adding more frame dependency since it’s run every frame but doesn’t carry over time like a Timer does.

To reduce this you could try this, key difference being only adding up by delta then determining minutes and miliseconds from seconds.

var sec: float = 0

func _process(delta: float) -> void:
	sec += delta

	var milisec: float = fmod(sec * 1000, 1000)
	var minutes: float = sec / 60
	var seconds: float = fmod(sec, 60)
	var timer: String = "%d:%d:%d" % [minutes, seconds, milisec]
	text = timer

	end_time_det.get_time(minutes, seconds, milisec)

But I would still recommend Time.get_ticks_msec() over this.

[magele]

Thanks, im gonna try it out now.

[magele]

It Works! Thank you so much!