Using a Scene Variable in a Timer

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#1

I’m making a version of the Space Shooter Tutorial and have managed to get Meteors spawning randomly using a timer.
When the game starts I have a scene variable called “Difficulty” set to 5.
I want to use this stored variable value in a Timer that spawns the meteors (Every 5 seconds to start), and therefore be able to change it to spawn more frequently.
As soon as I introduced “Variable(Difficulty)” in the timer, it just spawns hundreds of meteors. (If I simply change the value to 5, it works fine).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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#2

You have quotes in the variable name in your first event. Variables cannot include special characters. They won’t generate at all (or will error out).

#3

Thank you, I can’t believe I missed that.

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