On screen count down?

[Khlowd]

Hi there,

I’m quite new to lua and C# and I am only capable of writing some simple scripts. I am wondering if anyone knows how to make a countdown that can be displayed on screen (Basically, like the countdown in GTA: Online death matches). I would like to be able to trigger this countdown through a chat command. I know how to trigger code from a chat command. However, I am not sure how to code a count down nor do I know how to display it on screen.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Reference image of the timer in GTA: Online

Thank-you for your time.

[Virsenas]

https://forum.cfx.re/t/timer-in-lua-need-help/18162

[Vespura]

Best way to recreate GTA Online looking countdowns would probably be using scaleforms, for that checkout this page:

How to use scaleforms!

As there seems to be a lack of much info to do with scaleforms, I felt like this are too useful to not show how to use a few of them to create simple, but nice looking displays, such as this one: [image] Right, so lets say we wanted to create something like this but says “Wasted”. We would begin with requesting the scaleform by using: RequestScaleformMovie(scaleform) and replacing scaleform with the desired scaleform (I will leave a link to a file full of all the scaleforms, and I will also sh…

It also provides a few examples (some are also posted in the replies)
As far as the countdown something like this would work fine:

Citizen.CreateThread(function()
    local seconds = 5
    for i = 1,seconds do
        -- your scaleform display function call should be made here.
        Citizen.Wait(1000)
    end
end)

[Khlowd]

Thanks for the advice, I’ll take a look.