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Newcomers DBPro Corner / How to judge passage of time?

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Shadow
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Posted: 26th Feb 2003 23:25
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What is the best way to measure time (i.e. to create a delay in a real-time game). I want to judge it in actual seconds, not frames.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
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QuothTheRaven
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Posted: 26th Feb 2003 23:40
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the command wait works in seconds

wait 100 is one second. Or maybe its wait 1000. No, its wait 100.

you could grab the screen fps and use that to determine how long you need to delay...

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Posted: 26th Feb 2003 23:52
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Wait is no good as it halts the program.
I was thinking something like:



To add a "K" every 0.25 seconds (just as example - I don't actually need a program to add K's).
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PiratSS
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Posted: 27th Feb 2003 00:17
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wait 1000(each 1 is milisecond) would give u 1 second wait :0


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The Darthster
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I think timer() is your best bet.

t=timer()
while t+0.5>timer():wend

Ahhh, that takes me back.

Alternately,

do
...
time#=timer()-t#
distance = speed x time# (etc.)
t#=timer()

time2#=timer()-s#
if time2#>=0.25
print "k"
s#=timer()
endif

...
loop

Just some examples, on calculating the time passed in a frame, and also calling events every specific time interval, although you will have to check the units of timer(), 0.25 might mean 0.25s or 0.00025s, I can never remember.

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BoB Vila
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Posted: 27th Feb 2003 21:53
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The timer would definatly the a good way to go, if you wan't to calculate actual time. But if you want a timer that is relative to your other ingame calculations you can just use a float that you increment by something like .00000001 every time you game loops past the sync function. That way you can use it as a count down time.

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