Need help with a game timer?
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Writing small game in C
I am not sure how to go about getting the game to run without
the user pressing a key. Basically its like that old car game on the TI calculators, where you can't hit the sides or you crash. I am stuck at how to get the game to move without me pressing a key. I am using WASD, and well when I press a key the player moves and the background scrolls but, I have no idea how to make the background scroll alone without me pressing a key. I am a pretty decent programmer, but never touched this topic in class, my classes are based on applications...not games :( Anyway, any help with what kind of header file to include and how to use a proper fuction would help. I was thinking of using time.h and some functions in there but I can't find any good examples... Thanks so much in advance. Working on this lil game feels extrememly good and I can't wait to get this part going :)
I had some troubles with timers, couldnt find an example so I made something really simple. Accualy, I am a n00b heheh..
It should be obvious what it does, for me its my global timer (which starts at 300 secs and goes to 0 ;>) and a combo timer which keeps track of the endurance of 2 seconds. Check the comments.
It should be obvious what it does, for me its my global timer (which starts at 300 secs and goes to 0 ;>) and a combo timer which keeps track of the endurance of 2 seconds. Check the comments.
class Timer{ //Function: Creates a Timer object where time can be measure from public: Timer(); //Default constructor void Start(); //Function: Take a copy of the current time bool Check(int Seconds); //int Seconds = number of Seconds to compare Start-time with //Return value: bool = are the Seconds more then the timedifference between now and Start? (False) //Function: Check a given time for time between starttime end checktime int Update(); //Return value: int = time between now and starttime //Function: Returns between now and starttime private: time_t m_time_1; time_t m_time_2; };Timer::Timer():m_time_1(0), m_time_2(0){time(&m_time_1);}void Timer::Start(){ time(&m_time_1);}bool Timer::Check(int Seconds){ time(&m_time_2); if (difftime(m_time_2, m_time_1) < Seconds) return(true); return(false);}int Timer::Update(){ time(&m_time_2); return(difftime(m_time_2, m_time_1));}
Read up on "time-independent/frame-independent movement" (I've seen both terms for the same method). I believe there is an article here on GameDev for that; check the game programming section.
As for the actual function which to use I urge you to define what platform you develop on. On Windows GetTickCount is a rather poor function when it comes to time-independent movement, and QueryPerformanceCounter is more to recommend if you decide to go with that instead of fixed time-steps.
As for the actual function which to use I urge you to define what platform you develop on. On Windows GetTickCount is a rather poor function when it comes to time-independent movement, and QueryPerformanceCounter is more to recommend if you decide to go with that instead of fixed time-steps.
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