Transitions

There are some other small miscellaneous visual elements that Arcade provides.

In minigames, it's common to want a countdown. Arcade provides an interface for easily creating these. There is a generic Transitions interface, as well as a TitledCountdown interface.

To create a titled countdown we can simply call TitledCountdown#titled, you can optionally pass in your title if you wish it to be different from the default:

kotlin

val countdown = TitledCountdown.titled()

Then to initiate the countdown you call Transition#transition which is a suspending function which takes a duration and interval between transition updates (counts in this case), and suspends until the transition is fully complete. By default, the duration will be 10 seconds, the interval will be 1 second.

kotlin

val server: MinecraftServer = // ...
server.launch {
    countdown.transition(5.Seconds, 1.Seconds) { server.players }
    println("Countdown finished!")
}

If you want more control over the formatting and display of the TitledCountdown you can create your own implementation and override the respective methods.

Transitions ​

Transitions