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• Dev_Martas

  May 3 edited May 3

  I found the cause. It happens when I enter the Main menu and exit back to the game again. The animation reacts differently than the timer (animation is back on the same frame it was before entering the menu, but the timer moves to the next value), and that is when the disharmony happens.

  But I don't know what to do with it.
• ChrisIceBox

  May 3

  You're better off syncing the Animator to the normalised time of the QTE, which you can get with:

  AC.KickStarter.playerQTE.GetRemainingTimeFactor ();
  

  This can be placed in a script attached to the Animator to set the value of a float parameter named e.g. "Time":

  using UnityEngine;
  public class SyncQTETime : MonoBehaviour
  {
      void Update ()
      {
          float time = AC.KickStarter.playerQTE.GetRemainingTimeFactor ();
          GetComponent<Animator> ().SetFloat ("Time", time);
      }
  }
  

  This parameter can then be used to drive the playback of your animation.
• Dev_Martas

  May 7

  AC.KickStarter.playerQTE.GetRemainingTimeFactor ();

  Thank you. I will also be using this in other events, not necessarily QT as described in the manual. They will depend on a custom timer created in the Timer Editor.

  How can I get the remaining time of such a custom timer?
• ChrisIceBox

  May 7

  Getting a Timer in script is done with:

  AC.KickStarter.variablesManager.GetTimer (2);
  

  Where "2" is replaced with the Timer's ID.

  The available properties can be found in the Scripting Guide.
• Dev_Martas

  May 8

  I am having several issues implementing this.

  First, i am getting an error with the script: Cannot implicitly convert type 'AC.Timer' to 'float'

  using UnityEngine;
  public class SyncQTETime : MonoBehaviour
  {
      void Update()
      {
          float time = AC.KickStarter.variablesManager.GetTimer(2);
          GetComponent<Animator>().SetFloat("Time", time);
      }
  }
  

  I tried ChatGPT to help fix it:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class SyncQTETime : MonoBehaviour
  {
      void Update()
      {
          Timer timer = KickStarter.variablesManager.GetTimer(2);
          float time = timer.Value;
          GetComponent<Animator>().SetFloat("Time", time);
      }
  }
  

  I attached this script to the Image object containing the animator. But it does not work. I don't know if the problem is the script, me attaching it incorrectly, or both. The timer ID was actually 2 in the Timer Editor, so i left it like that :-)
• ChrisIceBox

  May 8

  In what way does it not work, exactly? The code looks fine.

  What are the properties of the Timer, and are you looking to use the absolute time value, or a normalised one (ie from 0 to 1)? If the latter, you can use timer.Progress instead of timer.Value.
• Dev_Martas

  May 9

  It did not sync with the timer animation. In the end, I modified your script with the help of AI to this, and it seems to work. The timer is an absolute value, the movement of the clock in the animation is supposed to be smooth (not a step per second), and if there is a dissynchronization with the timer, then the hand just speeds up to the right position.

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class SyncStopkySTimerem : MonoBehaviour
  {
      [Header("Animation Settings")]
      public string animationStateName = "Stopwatch";
      public float timerDuration = 30f;
  
      [Header("Sync Behavior")]
      public float maxDesyncSeconds = 1f;     // Start catch-up if this is exceeded
      public float normalSpeed = 1f;          // Normal playback rate
      public float catchUpSpeedMultiplier = 3f; // How much faster to catch up
  
      private Animator animator;
      private float currentNormalizedTime = 0f;
      private bool hasStarted = false;
  
      void Start()
      {
          animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
          if (animator == null)
          {
              Debug.LogError("Animator component not found on " + gameObject.name);
              enabled = false;
          }
  
          animator.speed = 0f; // We control animation manually
      }
  
      void Update()
      {
          Timer timer = KickStarter.variablesManager.GetTimer(2);
          if (timer == null || !timer.IsRunning)
          {
              hasStarted = false;
              animator.speed = 0f;
              return;
          }
  
          float targetNormalizedTime = Mathf.Clamp01(timer.Value / timerDuration);
  
          if (!hasStarted)
          {
              currentNormalizedTime = targetNormalizedTime;
              animator.Play(animationStateName, 0, currentNormalizedTime);
              hasStarted = true;
              return;
          }
  
          // Calculate desync in seconds
          float desyncSeconds = (targetNormalizedTime - currentNormalizedTime) * timerDuration;
  
          // Determine speed multiplier
          float deltaSpeed = normalSpeed;
          if (desyncSeconds > maxDesyncSeconds)
          {
              // We're behind, speed up
              deltaSpeed *= catchUpSpeedMultiplier;
          }
  
          // Advance current time forward only
          currentNormalizedTime += (Time.deltaTime / timerDuration) * deltaSpeed;
          currentNormalizedTime = Mathf.Min(currentNormalizedTime, targetNormalizedTime); // Never overshoot
  
          // Apply new position to animator
          animator.Play(animationStateName, 0, currentNormalizedTime);
      }
  }