Values in For Loop endlessly increase

killbent

So I've been learning gdscript for a while and finally started actually practicing in the engine 3 days ago. And I've run into an issue with a for loop, except it may not be the loop itself that's the issue?

I'm trying to make it so that once this plant has been watered, every 5 seconds it'll grow into it's next stage. However once those 5 seconds are over, instead of going into the first stage it jumps straight into the final stage. And when I used print to keep track of the thing's values I saw it wasn't stopping...

(Also I just realized I wasn't printing my sprite's frames there, whoops.) I can tell this isn't the loop's fault, because if it was then it'd be increasing every 5 seconds instead of every frame.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? Is += not what I thought it was? Am I just completely missing something?

DaveTheCoder

Putting a five-second delay in _process(), which can run every few milliseconds, isn't a good idea.

A couple of alternatives:

Get rid of the yield(). Instead, check the elapsed time using OS.get_ticks_msec(), and perform action based on that.
Create a Timer with a five-second timeout, and move the logic out of _process() and into the Timer's timeout signal handler function.

killbent

@DaveTheCoder said: Putting a five-second delay in _process(), which can run every few milliseconds, isn't a good idea.

A couple of alternatives:

Get rid of the yield(). Instead, check the elapsed time using OS.get_ticks_msec(), and perform action based on that.

Create a Timer with a five-second timeout, and move the logic out of _process() and into the Timer's timeout signal handler function.

I used a timer like you said and made it start whenever I watered or planted the seed instead of having it in process() and it worked! Thank you so much!