Question

I’m fairly new to using Python, and I’m trying to get a hit timer so that in my game when my player is hit, it needs to wait a couple seconds before he can be hit again.

I thought I could just do something like:

while hitTimer > 0:
    hitTimer -= 1

and being hit resets the counter to 10, and requiring the counter to be > 0 to be able to be hit again, but it goes way to fast.

I tried using very small numbers like -= .00005 but that just makes my program lag bad.

How can I make it so it takes away 1 per second or something like that?

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

In order to check for exactly 10 seconds, do this:

import time
# record when person was first hit.
previousHit = time.time()

if time.time() - previousHit > 10:
    # The rest of your logic for getting hit.
    previousHit = time.time() # Reset the timer to get the hit again.