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Dark Physics & Dark A.I. & Dark Dynamix / How to pause the physics-simulation (=the whole game)?

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Hoozer
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Posted: 26th Sep 2006 17:05
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Hello everyone,

I wondered, if someone maybe knows a way to pause the game or application, when using "DB-Pro" with "Dark-Pysics"?

I just want something like the standard-thing in every game! Pressing "P" (or what key you like) to pause the game and pressing "P" again to continue the game!

I tried some things, but it was more try and error (more error) without a useful result.


If someone has an example or an idea, I would realy like to try it out!

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dark coder
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Posted: 26th Sep 2006 20:17
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Bmad6
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Is there any way to accomplish this while doing the wierd method? (ie, calling phy update 0 and phy update 1 to speed up your program)

Windows XP Home Edition SP2, Intel Celeron 1.4 GHz Processor, 768 MB of RAM, 1024x768 Srceen Resolution, NVidia 256MB FX5200 GPU
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BatVink
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Posted: 1st Oct 2006 23:22
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@Dark COder: The problem you have is that if you pause for 60 seconds, for example, the Physics dll will simply account for a 60 second delay.

It would actually be worse, the system would be very inaccurate because it doesn't have enough information about the intermediate steps. At 30 FPS, there are 1,800 step calculations in a minute, which are broken down further in the DLL to average around 15,000 steps. When you pause it, it has to try and work out what happened in the 60 second gap, based on just 8 steps or so



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dark coder
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Well i just tried it, and unless you use the auto fixed timing my method works fine, as by default dp doesnt use timer based movement,

alternatively you could change the scene to one which has no physics objects.

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BatVink
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2006 10:11 Edited at: 2nd Oct 2006 10:12
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That's good to know. I wonder if you can switch auto-timing on and off on-the-fly? Must try it later. This could be the answer to the elusive Matrix style effect Dark Physics



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