How can I use a collision box to both pause a timer and increase a progress bar when the progress bar is slowly decreasing everywhere else?

[Briedo_Womter]

Description -
I am trying to create a health system where the player’s health will slowly decrease unless they are in specified areas that will increase their health. (I am using this as a hypothermia system, so if the player is away from a heater, they will get cold, when they are close, they will get warm.)

How would I be able to pause the health timer, and slowly increase the players health, when they enter this collision space?

Problem - I have a timer set up so that I will slowly be decreasing the player’s health at at Event Begin Play and when I walk into a Trigger Box, I get a boost of health. The timer does not pause when the player overlaps with the collision and just gives them a boost of health.

Health Timer Blueprints

Health Depletion -
I have set up a few functions to work through the system so far, On event begin play I call the Set Health Timer that holds the Deplete Health function in Health Timer Name.

Adding Health -
Here I have a check to see if the timer is active and set to add health to the player if that’s the case. I have tried different methods of pausing it but I can’t seem to figure out what I would need to do. I then call the Add Health function in the Level Blueprints from an OnActorBeginOverlap

[Everynone]

Timers have handles, once promoted to a variable they can be accessed freely and support pausing:

Perhaps that’s what you need.

[Briedo_Womter]

I think this will work, but I’m having some trouble with calling it. I was able to get the timer function to pause but I’m having some trouble setting it to happening only when I am inside the collision box. I have it set, so far, to that when I step in it heals the character but it doesn’t unpause when I leave the box.

Would I need to make a new function for it to hook up to OnActorEndOverlap? At the moment, I have it hooked up to the “Add Health” function that gets called on actor overlap in the level blueprints.

Would I be able to handle both the pause and unpause actions in the single function?

[anonymous_user_be08fe41]

Yes you should ‘SetTimer’ during ‘OnActorBeginOverlap’, and ‘ClearAndInvalidateTimer’ during ‘OnActorEndOverlap’.

After SetTimer, hook the return value and click “promote to variable”. Then use this variable when you ClearAndInvalidateTimer