Help creating simple animation

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Thanks for letting me know, it’s very helpful.

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Although you could change frameCount at will, it‘s still advised to refrain from doing so. You never know what those internal values might be used for behind the scenes :sweat_smile:

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Using global variables may be better, as then you can make a Timer class, and I don’t believe each class has an individual frameCount(multiple timers running at the same time, but not all starting at the same time)

class Timer {
    float w;
    float TimerSize;
    float TimerMaxValue;
    color TimerColor;
    float Timerx,Timery;
    Timer(tempTimerSize,tempTimerColor,tempTimerx,tempTimery,tempTimerMaxValue) {
    TimerSize=tempTimerSize;
    TimerColor=tempTimerColor;
    TimerMaxValue=tempTimerMaxValue;
    Timerx=tempTimerx;
    Timery=tempTimery;
    w=0;}
    
    void display() {
    fill(TimerColor);
    textSize(TimerSize);
    text(w,Timerx,Timery);}
    
    void update() {
    w+=0.0152;
    if(tempTimerMaxValue!=null) {
        if(w>=TimerMaxValue) {    //greater than or equal to because may be 0.01 over/below max value
        w=0;}
        }
    }
}
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