Way to control the update of Individual timers

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Using Lua.
I have a few timers in my game. I would like to update some of the timers only when an event happens, like getCrankChange == 0. And have other timers be updated every frame. As pd.timer.updateTimers() will update all of them, don't know how to achieve this.

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Timers are implemented in CoreLibs/timer.lua so you could always make changes to a copy of that file included in your project (so that your changes don't get wiped out when there is an SDK update).

I might modify the playdate.timer.updateTimers() to take an optional array argument?

I'm curious about what you're trying to achieve - is it just to save processing time updating timers you're not using at the moment?

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Thanks @dan, will try this.

What I'm trying to achieve:

  1. Use a timer to spawn an enemy every 5 seconds.
  2. Only update the timer when there was a change in the crank position this frame.
  3. So if no crank change for lets say 3 seconds, the timer won't get updated.

In addition to these, I have other timers which I want to update regardless of crank position change.

Someone on Discord suggested having a manual timer where I accumulate the timer only on change and reset it on reaching the time required.