logic_timer Class Reference

About this class

Server-Entity: Timer Trigger.

QUAKED logic_timer (1 0 0) (-8 -8 -8) (8 8 8) OSCILLATOR

OVERVIEW

Will trigger its outputs at fixed/random intervals, much like the entity random_trigger.

KEYS

• "targetname" : Name
• "UseRandomTime" : Boolean value that determines whether it's random, or fixed.
• "LowerRandomBound" : The lower limit of a random trigger timer.
• "UpperRandomBound" : The upper limit of a random trigger timer.
• "RefireTime" : Fixed time in seconds. Only when UseRandomTime is set to 0.
• "StartDisabled" : Boolean value that determines whether we should not start triggering at level start.

INPUTS

• "Enable" - Enable the timer logic.
• "Disable" - Disable the timer logic.
• "Toggle" - Toggle between Enable/Disable.
• "ResetTimer" - Resets the timer, and starts it.
• "FireTimer" - Forcefully triggers the OnTimer outputs.
• "RefireTime" - Sets a new firing time from the data field.
• "LowerRandomBound" - Sets the lower limit of a random trigger timer from the data field.
• "UpperRandomBound" - Sets the upper limit of a random trigger timer from the data field.
• "AddToTimer" - Adds the number of seconds from the data field to the current timer.
• "SubtractFromTimer" - Removes the number of seconds from the data field to the current timer.

OUTPUTS

• "OnTimer" : Triggered when the map is loaded for any reason.
  
• "OnTimerHigh" : Triggered only when a new game starts on this level.
  
• "OnTimerLow" : Triggered when the map is loaded via save game.
  

SPAWNFLAGS

• OSCILLATOR (1) : Instead of triggering the OnTimer output, will flip-flip between OnTimerHigh and OnTimerLow.

TRIVIA

This entity was introduced in Half-Life 2 (2004).

Inheritance diagram for logic_timer:

Public Member Functions
void	logic_timer (void)
virtual void	Spawned (void)
	Called when the entity is fulled initialized. More...
virtual void	Save (float)
	Handles saving a copy of this entity to a given filehandle. More...
virtual void	Restore (string, string)
	Similar to NSIO::SpawnKey but for save-game fields. More...
virtual void	Respawn (void)
	Server: Called when the entity first spawns or when game-logic requests the entity to return to its original spawn state. More...
virtual void	SpawnKey (string, string)
	This method handles entity key/value pairs on map load. More...
virtual void	Input (entity, string, string)
	Called when we are being prompted by another object/function with an input message. More...
nonvirtual void	TimerEvent (void)
nonvirtual void	TimerSetup (void)

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

logic_timer()

void logic_timer::logic_timer

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void

)

Member Function Documentation

Input()

void logic_timer::Input ( entity  eAct, string  strInput, string  strData  )

virtual

Called when we are being prompted by another object/function with an input message.

Reimplemented from NSEntity.

Respawn()

void logic_timer::Respawn ( void  )

virtual

Server: Called when the entity first spawns or when game-logic requests the entity to return to its original spawn state.

Reimplemented from NSPointTrigger.

Restore()

void logic_timer::Restore ( string  strKey, string  strValue  )

virtual

Similar to NSIO::SpawnKey but for save-game fields.

Whatever you write into file handles within your NSIO::Save() method needs to be read back in here.

Reimplemented from NSPointTrigger.

Save()

void logic_timer::Save ( float  handle )

virtual

Handles saving a copy of this entity to a given filehandle.

Within you want to use the NSIO::SaveFloat() etc. methods to write the internal member attributes to the specified file handle.

Reimplemented from NSPointTrigger.

Spawned()

void logic_timer::Spawned ( void  )

virtual

Called when the entity is fulled initialized.

Any spawn key/value info pairs have already been dealt with. So now we can make full decisions on the entity. Always make sure to call super::Spawned(); inside your method when overriding.

Reimplemented from NSEntity.

SpawnKey()

void logic_timer::SpawnKey ( string  strKey, string  strValue  )

virtual

This method handles entity key/value pairs on map load.

You can easily convert the strValue parameter using the ReadFloat etc. methods that are part of NSIO.

Reimplemented from NSPointTrigger.

TimerEvent()

void logic_timer::TimerEvent

(

void

)

TimerSetup()

void logic_timer::TimerSetup

(

void

)

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• src/gs-entbase/server/logic_timer.qc