Timer never goes down

Question

So I'm trying to make a powerup that makes you have a shield around you. I managed to make it so that when it comes into contact with the powerup, the shield sprite is visible.

Now I'm struggling with making the shield sprite dissapear. I tried this with timer nodes and with what the answer of this post said: https://godotengine.org/qa/44603/using-yield-get_tree-create_timer-x.

I also followed this tutorial: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=space+shooter+tut+powerup+godot&t=ffab&iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DlafVipHPn4o but that didn't work either.

both scripts:

extends Area2D

var hp = 3

var PowerupTime = 2

var shieldT = Timer.new()

func _ready() -> void:
    shieldT.set_wait_time(2)
    shieldT.set_one_shot(true)
    self.add_child(shieldT)

func _on_Area2D_area_entered(area: Area2D) -> void:
    if area.collision_layer == 2:
        hp -= 1

func _process(delta: float) -> void:
    if hp <= 0:
        get_parent().queue_free()
        queue_free()

    if global.powerup1_active == true:
        shieldT.start()
        if !shieldT.is_stopped():
            get_parent().get_node("Shield").visible = true
            print(shieldT.time_left)
        else:
            get_parent().get_node("Shield").visible = false
            global.powerup1_active = false

        print(global.powerup1_active)

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extends Area2D

onready var shieldTimer := get_parent().get_node("ShieldTimer")

var hp = 3
var shieldTime := 1

func _ready() -> void:
    get_parent().get_node("Shield").visible = false

func _on_Area2D_area_entered(area: Area2D) -> void:
    if area.collision_layer == 2:
        hp -= 1

func _process(delta: float) -> void:
    if hp <= 0:
        get_parent().queue_free()
        queue_free()

    if global.powerup1_active == true:
        shieldTimer.start(shieldTime)
        if !shieldTimer.is_stopped():
            get_parent().get_node("Shield").visible = true
            print(shieldTimer.time_left)
        else:
            global.powerup1_active = false

P.S I'm quite new to GDscript and Godot so I probably missed out something very important. Thanks :)

Comments

Can you add just the timer part of the code?

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i added them a bit from memory, so it might not be exact

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i added them a bit from memory, so it might not be exact

It's not possible for people to look at code and make useful suggestions if it's not the code you're actually using.

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well, from what i have shown, please give me some suggestions and ideas and why my code isn't working?

Answer 1

It is You just start your timer endlessly in process(). You should have noticed that, because your print statement must always show starting time in console. Your timer is never stopped, always running, so it never reaches this part of the code, that turns shield to invisible.

You already used boolean "powerupactive" to border if statements in process. You can reposition it, so the timer is only started once, visibility set to true or false also just once. Of course You should use "timeout" signal or setget for the most ellegant sollution, but whatever works is fine

Comments

thank you so much! <3