How to code an enemy's damage when the player is in their collision shape?

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How to code an enemy's damage when the player is in their collision shape?

jenkem_enoshima

When the player is in the hitbox of an enemy and they stay there, I want the player to take damage every 1.5 seconds or so. When I run a bool thru _process and connect it to on_enter and on_exit signals, the player immediately dies (A timer between hits doesn't seem to work, _process is too fast). When I just make an on_enter to take damage, the player only takes one chunk of damage and nothing else. How should I go by making this?

DaveTheCoder

jenkem_enoshima When I run a bool thru _process and connect it to on_enter and on_exit signals, the player immediately dies

Explain that in more detail.

An alternative to using a Timer is to keep track of the elapsed time (in _process or _physics_process).

const TIME_INTERVAL: int = 1500 # msec
...
var saved_time: int = OS.get_ticks_msec()
...
if OS.get_ticks_msec() - saved_time > TIME_INTERVAL:
    # do something
    ...
    saved_time = OS.get_ticks_msec()

jenkem_enoshima

DaveTheCoder i want to make a damage system where if the player enters a hitbox that damages them, they are hit but after they're hit, are invincible for a second to get their bearings. If that second is up and they are still in the hitbox, they will take another hit.

Megalomaniak

I'd probably just try using a timer and enter/exit signals to toggle a boolean value(lets call it do_damage). Then on timer timeout check if do_damage is true.

DaveTheCoder

Did you understand the above replies by me and Megalomaniak?