How to display the cooldown of a custom ability?

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Hey there. I can’t crack this one, and it’s killing me.
I made a custom ability, and it’s working fine, but I don’t know how to make it so the cooldown is displayed (as a hud text).

Does anyone know how I can display a cooldown or countdown? Thanks

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If you have the cooldown already tied to a player/global variable you can just insert this variable as the header value in the HUD text creation.

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A Shrew’s Berry has a good tutorial on YouTube you can follow.

Create a text hud that tracks a variable that is the cooldown of the ability (personally I set this as a conditionless action near the top of my rules, so the player can always see the available cooldown).

It essentially boils down to setting your cooldown as a variable, then you have to chase variable over time equal to how long the cooldown is. Add a wait condition equal to the variable that’s chasing down over time so you can’t keep activating the ability.