Using a Timer for Shoot Delay | QA - Godot Engine

Demonstrating how you can create and use a Timer to make a forced delay between shooting a cannon ball.
Extra Timer Notes:
You can also add the Timer Node directly on your scene. If you do, you would use timer = get_node("path/to/timer_node") instead of using Timer.new() and add_child(timer). You can set the properties directly on the node.
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[@ClintGameDev]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, i have searched for a long time for videos to understand godot timer but understood none.. but this video really helped me a lot to understand both custom and built in timers.. thanks

[@Larington]

I struggled with this in all honesty, but I think that's purely due to working on something at 2 AM. This was really helpful, thank you.

[@archimax08]

Exactly what I was looking for, worked for 3D too. Thanks!

[@Warionator]

I'm a bit late, but if you are more comfortable using nodes vs code, try this instead (same result) 1.) make a timer node a child to your object that's shooting the thing (this case the canon) 2.) enable One Shot on the timer and set your time to whatever you want 3.) Create a signal for timeout() and connect it to the parent (in this case, the canon) 4.) On your script, create a variable can_shoot = true 5.) On the newly created function, make can_shoot = true 6.) In your shoot part of the script, add an && can_shoot to your if statement 7.) at the end of the shoot section, make can_shoot = false 8.) now instead of timer.start(), we need to reference the timer node, so it would be something very similar, put $Timer.start() at the end of the shoot section 9.) If you named your timer, say shootTimer, you would put $shootTimer.start(). And that's it. The same thing just using more nodes vs script!

[@Karce963]

Thanks for the extra tips, I'm a node-minded person too. In-case anyone was looking for a simple timer for the quit function (so a button sound can play).... Set a signal for the quit button and the timer that links them to the script of your choice. Same as above, but only 4 lines of code to quit with a button click (0.8 seconds is enough): func _on_quit_button_pressed(): $Timer.start() (*click and drag the timer from the node tree into the code to get the exact path) func _on_timer_timeout(): get_tree().quit()

[@tunefulsoulonaroll7669]

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks for the tip.

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Please do more tutorials! This really helps build the community and get new users to stick with it. Would be so great to link to these from the documentation in fact.

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Thanks with this tutorial I figure out why my timer caused bug in my game. Also damn, your documentation is top notch, I just started cleaning my "close enought" documentation because your code.

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Thanks so much man! It seems so simple yet I was struggling for hours xd

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[@c4r4dd1ct6]

If the connect method doesn't work for you, try replacing it with this line: timer.connect("timeout", Callable(self, "on_timeout_complete")) The connect method seems to have been changed to require a Callable for the second parameter, which would make the original timer.connect() line not work. Fortunately we have ChatGPT to help us now. It could also be the context I used this tutorial in (creating an Invoke method similar to the one used in Unity allowing for the user to hold down the jump button to jump repeatedly and consistently).

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This video rly made things a lot clearer! Thank you! P.S. perhaps in future videos you could made 2 attachments, one with finished code and one with a code that you got ready for the video (and yet didnt add the tutorial code) so people could maybe follow the video as it goes.. Thats just a though, even without it, great help! :)

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[@Antares2]

I did this in a different way, though I don't know which method is "best": --------------------------------- var gun_cooldown = 2.0 ## Seconds between each shot var can_shoot = -1.0 ## any negative float will do func _process(delta): if can_shoot > 0: can_shoot = can_shoot - delta ## cool down weapon by fraction since last loop (delta) if Input.is_action_pressed("fireweapon") and can_shoot < 0: can_shoot = gun_cooldown [spawn bullets or do attack or whatever...] ---------------------------------- Works great for me at least.

[@iRaqi1]

Nice idea 👍 I have q i went when press key can shot after 2 sconds Have any idea?

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It Worked Great for me, Thank You

[@MartyJames23]

Thanks, I did one with a TImer node for my 3d character's punch and the game froze. After work, I will try this version for my character.

[@SamFX]

Would it be possible to use some command like 'wait' or 'delay'? In other engines you have commands like this to create a delay for the next operation, I heard something about 'yield' on Godot but still seems overkill for such a simple feature. Any suggestions?

[@IvanSkodje]

I am sure it would be possible. You dont even need to use a timer to create a delay. You can also create a time_current and time_max, and increase time_current using delta while checking if time_current has passed time_max before being able to shoot.

[@SamFX]

Hi, thanks for the tip. I will try that but I was expecting to have just a command to do this, in many other engines it's a mater of using 'delay' or 'wait' as a command and that's it. It seems like in Godot you need to create your own timer somehow which adds more steps than what it should be necessary in other engines. It's not as streamlined as others and I was hoping for a single command solution instead of a 'do-it-yourself'.

[@ActionGamerAaron]

Often these commands will pause everything in the main loop and code in general, which is not advised for individual objects. You can make code that is passed over with a conditional that subtracts from the timer. # pass through here once to activate a timer for 90 frames or 1 & half seconds in a 60fps game action_timer = 90 enable_action = true [elsewhere in code...] if enable_action == true: if action_timer > 0: action_timer = action_timer - 1 # Subtract 1 for each frame that passes through this code else: # timer has reached it's end do_that_action_we_wanted_to_do() enable_action = false

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Cool! Thanks

[@samuelevander9823]

Can someone explain to me this whole timer = Timer.new() -business? I have trouble understanding that syntax. What is it & what does it do? What part of Python fundamentals does it cover?

[@IvanSkodje]

GDScript is Python. Essentially Object.new() in GDScript means you are creating and initiating a new object. The new() function also runs the object's "_init()" function. So if you create a custom object, you could use the same MyObject.new() to initiate it.

[@brianayate6312]

Question if you want to have yo make another timer is there a way to make a timer with out making it again like for shooting and throwing grenade

[@stevesteak3209]

i got the error in the cannon ball script that get_pops isnt declared in the current class

[@IvanSkodje]

Thank you for letting me know! get_pops? If you mean get_pos(), I believe it changed to "position" in Godot 3.0. So instead of "var.get_pos()" you would use "var.position". I also believe "var.get_position()" work. Try it out and see :)

[@AlexVoxel]

Nice voice xD

[@ActionGamerAaron]

Hm, not sure it beats out a classic "if cooldown, decrement cooldown, else allow shoot" loop. Adding a node for it has little advantage if you're able to count frames and in fact seems to convolute it slightly more.

[@IvanSkodje]

Agreed - although this was a suggested solution for a specific question. :) (Especially if you already have a process going. If you don't, you might be better off using a timer for simple tasks such as this)

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[@bob64]

lol i'm embarrassed to say that the issue was that i hadn't connected my timer node to anything.

[@fabiantjandra8763]

hi ! great video, is there any newest method to use timer? or still use this method?

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