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how do you implement Pause?

AndreTheGiant · 2003-03-17T17:42:34

Hi It seems to me that a simple feature like being able to pause your game would be harder to implement than most people think. Im not sure how you would have all your drawing stop, and keep drawing the same screen until the game is unpaused. Also, when the game is unpaused, you would have to reset all of your timers to the time that the game was paused so that there are no hiccups or sudden speed jumps in game play. Is there a generally accepted method to implement pause functionality in games or does it pretty much differ from game to game? thanks! ----- It''''s not my fault I''''m the biggest and the strongest; I don''''t even exercise!

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Started by AndreTheGiant March 16, 2003 11:42 AM

9 comments, last by AndreTheGiant 21 years, 1 month ago

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March 17, 2003 05:42 PM

You''re quite right Andre, if you are doing proper timebased movement in such a way that...

ticksSinceLastUpdate = GetTickCount() - LastUpdate;
LastUpdate = GetTickCount();
Position += ticksSinceLastUpdate*Veloctiy;

You would have to do the following when you unpause game
LastUpdate = GetTickCount();

Otherwise you''d have large jumps upon unpausing the game