Create an hour glass

[foxmindedguy]

Is there an extension out there for purchase or is there an elegant way to code an hour glass?

Essentially I would like the hourglass to deplete from the top-end in 20 seconds (or 10 seconds) depending on the time I define in another variable.

I was going to do a 20 frame animation but I think maybe there is a way to use height and make the hourglass be a liquid rather than pebble of sand. Issue is that my background is not a single color - so I can’t really mask part of a rectangle (water/liquid) by another object that looks like it is the background.

Thoughts?

[ZeroX4]

Sometimes best way to do it is just to do it

And imagine drawing that hourglass took most of the time

If this is for you chess game i would suggest normal digital timer
Or analog or both

But if you want hourglass so bad

I am using real time for analog
And time from start looped to 60 sec
But in both cases i would assume you would use timer and/or variable

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[foxmindedguy]

Hi ZeroX4,

I was trying this a different way but looks like my logic is flawed. I have not randomized the angle yet of the drops.

[MrMen]

You could make the hourglass and sand grains out of a number of sprites with Physics2 behaviour.

You could also make use of the Marching Squares demo, though it’d make the hourglass internals look like a liquid.

[ZeroX4]

Randomization in my case is there only as visual effect
It serves NO other purpose

@MrMen i suck with physics since i was never using them
BUT i did try them
And well i bet i did something wrong but
If sand is box there is like gap between grins like of a size of whole grin or bigger
If sand is circle it was working cool but VERY fast it started to lag my whole game
If you could provide some example i would be thankful
Cause that would help not only fox but also me
Since i would start to understand how to use physics

[MrMen]

@ZeroX4

If sand is circle it was working cool but VERY fast it started to lag my whole game
If you could provide some example i would be thankful

That’s pretty much how I’d do it. A few years ago I had a physics based game that had 100-150 dynamic circles, and there was a distinct slow down of the game. So it may be something unavoidable for now.