(Quake2) func_timer that starts immediately?

[jitspoe]

So I'm trying to figure out a way to do this in vanilla Quake2:

Timer starts playing a sound ~2 seconds after the match start, then repeats every 30 seconds.

The problem is, when start_on is set, it adds the wait time to the initial start, so if I have "delay" set to "2" and "wait" set to "30", it'll be 32 seconds before I hear any sound.

I tried doing something clever and removed the start_on flag and added another func_timer with the start_on flag that targeted the sound. When triggered, only the delay is used. Then I used a trigger_relay to shut the timer off:

func_timer -> func_timer -> target_speaker
^
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V
trigger_relay

That just caused a stack overflow.

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void func_timer_think (edict_t *self)
{
   G_UseTargets (self, self->activator);
   self->nextthink = level.time + self->wait + crandom() * self->random;
}

void func_timer_use (edict_t *self, edict_t *other, edict_t *activator)
{
   self->activator = activator;

   // if on, turn it off
   if (self->nextthink)
   {
      self->nextthink = 0;
      return;
   }

   // turn it on
   if (self->delay)
      self->nextthink = level.time + self->delay;
   else
      func_timer_think (self);
}

If only those 2 lines in func_timer_think were reversed, that would probably work.

Any idea how to get the behavior I want without code modifications?

[jitspoe]

Never mind. I figured out a way. Apparently you can have a trigger_once that has a targetname and a delay, so I was able to:

func_timer->func_timer->target_speaker
^ |
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| trigger_relay
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\ trigger_once


Edit: Actually, I think the relay is pointless. I can probably just do func_timer<->trigger_once.