Backwards running clock?

[Baker]

CRMOD and a few other deathmatch mods run the clock backwards.

For instance, at the beginning of a match the clock might show 20:00 and runs down to 0.

How is it possible to have the time on a server be reversed?

[Urre]

The time isn't reversed. They have a separate timer, which starts with a value, and gets decreased each frame with frametime, or perhaps a think function every second which subtracts a second from it.

Don't mess with the server time

[frag.machine]

Or maybe a simple arithmetic: sv_timelimit - current time ?

[ceriux]

float gtime;

if (time == time +1);
{
gtime = gtime -1;
};

i havnt messed with .qc in a while but i think it would be something similar to this?

[metlslime]

if (time == time +1);

[frag.machine]

if (time == time +1);

Damn I LOL'd so loud my boss just stared at me

[r00k]

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void (entity e, float m, float s) pqc_match_time =
{   
   local float msg_type;

   if (e == world)
      msg_type = MSG_ALL;
   else
   {
      msg_entity = e;
      msg_type = MSG_ONE;
   }

   WriteByte (msg_type, SVC_STUFFCMD);
   WriteByte (msg_type, 1);
   WriteByte (msg_type, PQC_MATCH_TIME);
   WriteBytePQ (msg_type, m);
   WriteBytePQ (msg_type, s);
   WriteString (msg_type, string_null);
};


this is what the quakeC side of pq_timer 1 looks like.