[Target]

A countdown timer similar to the supernova one. Just without the expanding sun and likely death.
Did a search and found that this was talked about at one time. Has it been forgotten or is it not possible?

[karajorma]

I believe I mentioned this once.

I haven't been looking at the HUD changes WMCoolmon made but if you can now display a variable on-screen this can be done already.

[Target]

K, thanks. I'll check that out.

[WMCoolmon]

It should be possible if there are SEXPs that deal with time, or a way to decrement a variable depending on how much time has passed.

[karajorma]

just simply use

every time
-true
-modify variable
--Counter
-- -
---counter
---1

With a high repeat count and a 1 second interval

(ie subtract one off of a variable called counter every second)

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by karajorma
just simply use

every time
-true
-modify variable
--Counter
-- -
---counter
---1

With a high repeat count and a 1 second interval

(ie subtract one off of a variable called counter every second)

NB - Attempting a similar sexp setup to this (I was adding, but it shouldn't matter) was one of the first times I encountered the variable destroying bug. If you get it, please report it to Goober so he doesn't think I'm crazy