quote:Original post by RhoneRanger
It is a modifier, just like your /8

0.02f just says it is a floating point number.

I am assuming that TimeDelta is a float.

multiplying by a modifier is much faster than dividing by one, so it will eliminate your jerkiness.

quote:Original post by RhoneRanger
One more thing, you know that time elapsed should be calculated similar to this
float CurrentTime;
float LastTime;
float ElapsedTime;
LastTime=TimeGetTime();


begin loop
CurrentTime=timeGetTime();
TimeElapsed=CurrentTime-LastTime;
LastTime=CurrentTime;

do all your game stuff

end loop

quote:Original post by RhoneRanger
I hope he meant like 8 miliseconds, but whatever!

still should multiply by a modifier than divide!

quote:Original post by Neen10do
well the TimeDelta/8 was because TimeDelta was making it too fast.

this basically did nothing if my timedelta was 8 (which it normally was). this eliminated the purpose.

so what i did then was create the speeds at decimals... then multipled by just TimeDelta.

this worked, but was a little weird, as well.

i used timeDelta * .02f (and returned the velocities back to whole numbers) and it was a lil slow, so i did 1.0f, not knowing what the hell i was doing, and it seemed to work ok--- that is, on my computer. my friend who usually tests my game on her machine just converted to win98 (i know i know) and is getting directx errors. so i cant tell if this time independent movement has made a difference.

would it?

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