Using custom timers

Hello, I'm new to the mission editor and have gone through all the help documents
I'm still struggling with the timers though

I've created my own timer which sets of once the player is spotted by enemies (it's a stealth mission). It lasts for 600000 (which should be 10 minutes right?)

After ten minutes, the mission is failed but I don't know how to write the function.
The timer is called "USAlerted"

Could someone tell me how I should write it so that when the USAlerted timer reaches 10 minutes, the mission fails

Thank you!

Do you mean after player is spotted by enemies 10 minutes later the mission failed? If it is, write some code like this:

Code:


function onIdentified( identifiedID, identifierID)
    --judge if player is spootted, if true
    OFP: addTimer( "USAlerted", 600000)
end

function onTimer_USAlerted()
    --the timer triggered
    OFP:missionFailed()
end


BTW, if you are using EDX, there are some better way to write codes.

Thanks for the help runerback, that was exactly what I was looking for - the "function onTimer_USAlerted()" part particularly!




I'm not sure what EDX means, sorry. I'm using the default mission editor editing the leve.lua file. Could you explain what you mean please?

You can check it here:
Mission Editor Expansion

Thaks runerback, completely missed this!

Okay so I had a look through all the EDX stuff and decided to just stick with the main editor. I know it talks about making mission making easier and more efficient, but I'm happier doing it the old fashioned way!