im making a game that has a infinite timer that keeps going up, but i want to stop my timer after the player gets a certain amount of points, can somebody tell me how?

You can't stop the in-built timer. You'll have to use a variable to record the time. If you want the variable to count up like the timer, try this:

reset timer
repeat until <(points) > [10]>
set [time v] to (timer)
end

The timer will be set only until the score is reached.

okay, thanks for telling me

it didn't work, can you make a game with the code for it inside so i can use the code from that for my game?

Jackson9050 wrote:

it didn't work, can you make a game with the code for it inside so i can use the code from that for my game?

It's only a simple script. There is nothing that can go wrong. The moment it is run (trigger it with a hat block of your choice), the timer variable starts and will count until the points are reached (which would be more than 10 in my example).
I don't want to create a project because it would contain that single script and nothing else.

reset timer

That will make that the timer resets

Jackson9050 wrote:

it didn't work, can you make a game with the code for it inside so i can use the code from that for my game?

You could just do a variable. A script like this:

when green flag clicked
set [timer] to [0]
set [playing?] to [true]
if <[playing?] = [true]> then
wait (1) secs
change [timer] by (1)
end

Or maybe you want a countdown:
Same script but make the timer equal to the amount of seconds you want it to be and change it by -1

i'll just try the one SamF2010 Said Cuz awesome-llama's one is so complicated

SamF2010 wrote:

You could just do a variable. A script like this:

when green flag clicked
set [timer] to [0]
set [playing?] to [true]
if <[playing?] = [true]> then
wait (1) secs
change [timer] by (1)
end

Or maybe you want a countdown:
Same script but make the timer equal to the amount of seconds you want it to be and change it by -1

it worked! thanks for telling me, i also finished the thing i was making: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/506055405/
i credited all of you who replyed to this post in my game.

Jackson9050 wrote:

SamF2010 wrote:

You could just do a variable. A script like this:

when green flag clicked
set [timer] to [0]
set [playing?] to [true]
if <[playing?] = [true]> then
wait (1) secs
change [timer] by (1)
end

Or maybe you want a countdown:
Same script but make the timer equal to the amount of seconds you want it to be and change it by -1

it worked! thanks for telling me, i also finished the thing i was making: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/506055405/
i credited all of you who replyed to this post in my game.

scratch's repeat loops have a built-in function where it has a 0.1 second delay in a list for animating, so that means the timer you built is going a little off every second, you should change the wait 1 seconds to about wait 0.9 seconds, hope that helps

Try this: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/510359302/

when green flag clicked
forever
if <(Time Stopped) = [0]> then
change [Timer v] by (timer)
end
reset timer
end

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Jackson9050 wrote:

SamF2010 wrote:

You could just do a variable. A script like this:

when green flag clicked
set [timer] to [0]
set [playing?] to [true]
if <[playing?] = [true]> then
wait (1) secs
change [timer] by (1)
end

Or maybe you want a countdown:
Same script but make the timer equal to the amount of seconds you want it to be and change it by -1

it worked! thanks for telling me, i also finished the thing i was making: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/506055405/
i credited all of you who replyed to this post in my game.

scratch's repeat loops have a built-in function where it has a 0.1 second delay in a list for animating, so that means the timer you built is going a little off every second, you should change the wait 1 seconds to about wait 0.9 seconds, hope that helps

thanks for telling me! cuz it did kinda looked weird.

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Jackson9050 wrote:

i'll just try the one SamF2010 Said Cuz awesome-llama's one is so complicated

awesome-llama's one is only a few blocks but SamF2010's is more blocks. So I'm trying awesome-llama's one.

snapkin wrote:

Jackson9050 wrote:

i'll just try the one SamF2010 Said Cuz awesome-llama's one is so complicated

awesome-llama's one is only a few blocks but SamF2010's is more blocks. So I'm trying awesome-llama's one.

Number of blocks doesn't matter, quality and functionality matters. I personally like SamF2010's one since using a variable is more robust and gives you more control then the Scratch pre-built one.

Jackson9050 wrote:

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i'm just gonna close this cuz i got what i needed on april 1st