[Solved] Simple Counter

[RedHairedHero]

Hello,

It's always these easy things that I struggle with. So what I'm looking to do is to create a counter.

While the player is moving the counter will increase by 1 each second.

Once the counter has reached 800, perform a function.

If the player is not moving, the counter will not increase.

I think the main issue I'm running into is figuring out how to pass the count variable into the counter.

Example

local function counter(inst)
	if inst.sg:HasStateTag("moving") then
		count = count + 1
	end
end

local master_postinit = function(inst)
	local count = 0
	return inst
end

Any help out would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Nathan

Edited May 22, 2018 by RedHairedHero

[. . .]

maybe something like this work?

local function counter(inst)
	if inst.sg:HasStateTag("moving") then
		inst.count = inst.count + 1
	end
end

local master_postinit = function(inst)
      inst.count = 0
end

 

[RedHairedHero]

15 minutes ago, SuperDavid said:

maybe something like this work?

local function counter(inst)
	if inst.sg:HasStateTag("moving") then
		inst.count = inst.count + 1
	end
end

local master_postinit = function(inst)
      inst.count = 0
end

 

This will work, had to move some things so here's the end result.

local function counter(inst)
	inst = ThePlayer
	inst.count = inst.count + 1
	return inst.count
end

local function moving(inst)
	if inst.sg:HasStateTag("moving") then
		counter()
	end
end

local master_postinit = function(inst)
      inst.count = 0
end

 

[Kronas]

On 5/22/2018 at 4:25 AM, RedHairedHero said:

This will work, had to move some things so here's the end result.

local function counter(inst)
	inst = ThePlayer
	inst.count = inst.count + 1
	return inst.count
end

local function moving(inst)
	if inst.sg:HasStateTag("moving") then
		counter()
	end
end

local master_postinit = function(inst)
      inst.count = 0
end

 

i'm curious about this 
what is it about ?
what does the count defines