Heard someone mention this on the boards a while back.

So, I made one.

Read the readme please. I'm not sure how good my timing code is. It runs perfectly on my computer, but I don't know about yours.

The framethrottle can manage the rendering for a frame, and the data processing (mathematics, input code) for a frame, in two separate functions. Pass the name, similar to CallFunction(). It calls rendering according to frame throttling, and it calls processing once every frame.

The framethrottler can simulate extremely high framerates by increasing the processing function call speed (similar to turbo mode in ZSNES).

It can manage code within the 0-1000 fps range. Frameskipping is automatically corrected if negative.

I don't know what the max frame skip value is, but I imagine that if the value goes above 1000 bad stuff starts to happen. At that point most of my timing division will always return zeroes.


Quickie info:
void SetMaxFPS(int fps)
void SetFrameSkip(int skip, int type)
void FrameThrottle(string renderfunc, string processfunc)


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This is my first V3 code/demo, so ...go easy.

Keep in mind that even though it may render less than the maximum frames per second, the timing will always process exactly the correct number of frames per second. Always. In fact, it will probably always render less than the max frames per second, because the timing for 60 fps requires one frame to be 16.666 millisecs, and my code truncates that to 16. But it shouldn't matter.

Unless the code doesn't work. It which case I'm a bad coder.

Also, at 60fps automatic skip, the rotating image will rotate completely around exactly every second.

Finally, a demo note: switching frame skip types during the demo will not change the frame skip. This means that if you switch from continuous to automatic, the frame skip will keep going. Switch back to continuous, and change the frame skip to zero, then switch to automatic.

Cool stuff! I was looking for a way to control the timing of my particles in my particle engine (which I'm completely redoing when I get back from Germany to make it more modern, i.e. able to do fire and smoke effects, etc.). With this code, I could make sure that the particles move at the same speed on different computers. I can pretty much get rid of my timing code, or at least give an option to disable it, if the game is using your code, because it wouldn't be needed. :D What that means, however, is that I will be able to base the particle movements on timing speeds, for example, a particle is supposed to move 1 inch per second, I can do that now. Thanks alot, I'll check it out when I get back. :D