CodeBase - REAL Timer based movement

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Uploaded: 15th Dec 2003 20:18

Modified: 15th Dec 2003 20:23

Author:  Jaze

Summary

REAL Timer based Movement Loop

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This simple little demo is the ground work I'm using for making timer() based movement in my games or whatever. Run the Snip, turn right a little - and see the white square slowly<br /> move away from the other squares. (Even when your framerate...like mine...was 300fps!!!)<br /> <br /> Extra work? Yes.. benefit? Same Gameply on any computer - and the better the machine - the smoother the GFX. (In my opinion)<br /> <br /> Some say 30fps or so is all human can see.... but slamming higher rates means your EYES can create the BLUR factor because your &quot;scene&quot; moves smooth.... can get &quot;blurs&quot; (according to your eyes) with this kind of set up... and its amazingly smooth.<br /> <br /> REMEMBER: The camera is there just as a quick way to navigate - the camera is not<br /> timer based in this example - though the structure is designed to handle moving cameras<br /> the same way it does objects so it could be made to move the same way the &quot;cube&quot; in this example does... by using the velocity amount. You'd just have to make a record in &quot;arR()&quot; that is iType=cnCamera - and set the camera id=0 for it to control the main one :)<br /> <br /> <br /> I didn't translate what VELOCITY means in metric - just how much to move per millisec - so depending on what you are &quot;creating&quot; the velocity that is appropriate for your project may be leaps and bounds different for another scene or project. Hope this is helpful. I saw another TIMER codebase entry that was nothing more than a HARDCODED delay - &quot;Don't do nothing until computer counts to 100....&quot; which will count to 100 faster on a fast machine and slower on a slow machine - hence - your game would appear to go as fast as computer wished - not how you wished it to behave. If you only care about running it on your own machine... than that kind of timer is fine I guess. IF you want people to try your stuff out and have it run the same to them as it does on your machine... well... This is the way to go.<br />