How to add a countdown timer in C++?

Development Programming & Scripting
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So basically I’m working on pickups and I don’t want the player collecting them right away… I’m looking to add a timer that counts down about 3 seconds before they can be collected. What is the basic function for a timer countdown in UE4?

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you can do that, or count down in tick, if you want something like, player need to stand 2 seconds near the power up to collect it, then you got to do it in tick

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/API/Runtime/Engine/GameFramework/AActor/Tick/1/index.html

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thanks for that, and yeah, basically once the pickup spawns a timer would countdown like 3 seconds and when those seconds are over, the player would be able to pick it up (this is where i’ll flip some bools) thanks for the references

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then you are better of with timers then with doing it in tick,
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