Hello I have been having this timer firing problem for a few days now that I cant seem to figure out. I am trying to get the timer to only activate a certain amount of times or infinite but infinite gives it even more weird results. That code should get the monster to attack 50 times but usually it stops like around 17 or 20 and starts to get weird results earlier, I tried several different methods and lots of times it will double fire doing it through different ways… I also tried to move to different timers and cancel old ones but that still gave weird effects.
What the code does is create a seperate square physics body around the monster that is after deleted milliseconds after the attack and recontinues till monster is dead, was my of thinking on how to do battle, not too sure if this is the right approach. I just want the timer to fire properly and not do double fire or perform weird.
[lua]local function cleanMonsterAttack1 ( event, monster )
if event.isBodyActive == true and monster ~= nil then
monster:setSequence(“passive”)
monster:play()
physics.removeBody( event)
mte.removeSprite(event, false)
event = nil
monsterAttackUsed = false
return true
elseif event.isBodyActive == true and monster == nil then
physics.removeBody( event)
mte.removeSprite(event, false)
event = nil
return true
end
end
–Monster attack
local function monsterAttack1 ( event )
if event ~= nil then
event:setSequence(“alert”)
event:play()
downSwordSetup.layer = player.layer - 1
downSwordSetup.locX = event.locX
downSwordSetup.locY = event.locY
monsterAttack.isVisible = false
mte.addSprite(monsterAttack, downSwordSetup)
if (player.level <= 2) then
physics.addBody( monsterAttack, “static”, { density=0, friction=0, bounce=0, isSensor = true, filter = { categoryBits = player.level, maskBits = player.level }, shape = monsterAttackShape} )
end
monsterAttack.type = “monsterAttack”
if timer2 == nil then
timer2 = timer.performWithDelay( 500, function() cleanMonsterAttack1(monsterAttack, event); end, 50 )
end
return true
else
return false
end
end
– Player Collision
local function onCollision(event)
if event.phase == “began” then
local agro = event.object1
local hit = event.object2
if (agro.type == “player” and hit.type == “NPC_2”) or
(agro.type == “NPC_2” and hit.type == “player”)then
if NPC_2 ~= nil then
if timer1 == nil then
timer1 = timer.performWithDelay( 1500, function() monsterAttack1(NPC_2); end, 50 )
end
–monsterAttackUsed = true
end
end
[/lua]
just would like the timers to work properly