Editor - lock framerate?

[cchaos_colin]

I was wondering - could we get a new editor feature for locking the framerate? We've been noticing some differences between our iPhone and PC performance of a character, and it seems to be framerate related (since the PC is running about 3-4x what the iPhone is). Our movement/acceleration is time-based, but even so, the differences are there.

Thanks,
Colin

[broozar]

that's what the "dt" factor is for, program framerate independently.

-> application.getLastFrameTime

[cchaos_colin]

Indeed, and we are using that :)

Unfortunately, you can still see different results with vastly different framerates (ie, 60 FPS PC to 18 FPS iPhone). That's why I'd like to lock the update rate on the PC to a given value, so I can get a better representation in the editor without exporting every change to the iPhone.

Of course, I could do something like:

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if ( system.getOSType ( ) == system.kOSTypeIPhone )
then
    application.setCurrentUserEnvironmentVariable ( "globalDT", application.getLastFrameTime ( ) )
else
    application.setCurrentUserEnvironmentVariable ( "globalDT", 1/20 )
end


..and get the environment variable everywhere instead of using application.getLastFrameTime ( ). That would almost simulate my needs, though animations and such would still be off - and I'd prefer a function to a function that presumably does a table lookup, since we get the last frame time in several places. If it was an editor change, then everything (particles, animations, and so on) will respect it.

[mal_CanDo]

+1 for this feature.

[NiCoX]

Hi all,

Have you tried the function application.setMinFrameTime ?

:)

[mal_CanDo]

Cool :) +1 karma to NiCoX for knowing this question would be asked, and pre-developing the functionality :)