Figure out amount of time till an event is finished

[ForgeableSum]

Suppose I create an event using game.time.event.add. That Phaser.TimerEvent is stored in game.time.event.event, great. But how do I calculate how long it will take for that event to fire based on the current game time?

I'm sure it has something to do with tick:

https://phaser.io/docs/2.6.2/Phaser.TimerEvent.html#tick

But what exactly is tick anyway? The docs say "the next game clock time that this event will fire at," but looking in the value stored in there, it is a huge value. Like:

20983490329048

compared to the game clock (game.time.now) which, at the same time is something like:

17002

Are the docs referencing some other clock, and not game.time.now?

 

[samme]

Phaser.TimerEvent.html#tick refers to Phaser.Time.html#time, so it's a near-future date (measured in ms).

It's odd but Timer doesn't tell you the event interval, you have to calculate

timerEvent.tick - timer._now

 

[ForgeableSum]

2 hours ago, samme said:

Phaser.TimerEvent.html#tick refers to Phaser.Time.html#time, so it's a near-future date (measured in ms).

It's odd but Timer doesn't tell you the event interval, you have to calculate

timerEvent.tick - timer._now

 

ah, so it's a date. i suppose that's what the docs meant by real world time.

 

[rroylance]

There is also

game.time.events.duration

(https://phaser.io/docs/2.6.2/Phaser.Timer.html#duration), if the event you want to know is the next in line this property will tell you in milliseconds how long until that event fires (https://phaser.io/examples/v2/time/basic-timed-event).