How do i make a Host Timer like in talent show?

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#1

Hello, i am trying to make a Host Timer system, like in talent show.

I already have a script that shows username when joined the host team. How do i make a 30 Minutes timer that shows on text label time 00:00? Seconds:Minutes

-- Server Script
game.ReplicatedStorage.JoinHostTeam.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player)
	for i,plr in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers())do
		plr.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("HostTimerGui").Frame.Playername.Text = "" ..Player.Name
		plr.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("HostTimerGui").Frame.ImageLabel.Image = "https://www.roblox.com/headshot-thumbnail/image?userId="..Player.UserId.."&width=420&height=420&format=png"
	end
end)

help

#2

You can break this up into the following steps:

  • Counting the time (Create timer)
  • Display time left (User feedback)

To create a timer you could do:

function updateUI(timeLeft)
	... -- Code to display this information to the users, maybe remote events?
end

local hostTimeLeft = 1800 -- 30 minutes (?)
repeat
	hostTimeLeft -= task.wait(1)
	updateUI(hostTimeLeft)
until hostTimeLeft <= 0
print("Times up!")
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#3

Thanks, and how do i display the time in Seconds**:**Minutes?

#4

You have the total amount of seconds, extract the minutes by doing minutes = timeLeft / 60 and round it up down (as we are only interested in whole minutes remaining). Subtract minutes * 60 from timeLeft and you will get the remaining seconds.

function updateUI(timeLeft)
	local minutes = math.floor(timeLeft / 60)
	if minutes < 10 then
		minutes = "0" .. tostring(minutes) -- Add a 0 before the number (prevent display such as '3:30'
	end
	local seconds = math.round(timeLeft - minutes * 60)
	if seconds < 10 then
		seconds = "0" .. tostring(seconds) -- Same as above, prevent things such as '30:0'
	end
	local text = string.format("%s:%s", tostring(minutes), tostring(seconds))
	print(text)
end


updateUI(80) -- Prints '01:20'
updateUI(1800) -- Prints '30:00'
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#5 
local function Timer(Time)
	local Minutes = math.floor(Time / 60)
	local Seconds = Time - (Minutes * 60)
	return string.format("%02d:%02d", Minutes, Seconds)
end

print(Timer(80)) --01:20
print(Timer(1800)) --30:00

ā€˜%dā€™ is the specifier (used to format integers), ā€˜0ā€™ is the flag (fills unused space with zeros instead of whitespaces) and ā€˜2ā€™ is the width (the width of the output value).

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