You add tabs in your post, by pasting them from a program that you can do tabs in. :D
Znigma: I'd actually recommend something along the lines of frame throttling, personally.
struct frame_type
{
int last, gap; // Used to modify the updates
int disp, num, rate, sec, speed, sum, total;
};
frame_type tframe;
void ResetThrottler()
{
tframe.last = 0;
tframe.gap = 0;
tframe.disp = 0;
tframe.num = 0;
tframe.rate = 0;
tframe.sec = 0;
tframe.speed = 0;
tframe.sum = 0;
tframe.total = 0;
}
void FrameThrottle()
{
tframe.speed++;
if (systemtime - tframe.sec > 99) // If a second has passed
{
// Update frame variables and reset counters
tframe.sec = systemtime;
tframe.disp = tframe.num;
tframe.num = 0;
tframe.rate = tframe.speed;
tframe.speed = 0;
tframe.total = tframe.sum;
tframe.sum = 0;
}
if (systemtime - tframe.last)
{
tframe.gap = systemtime - tframe.last;
tframe.last = systemtime;
// Updates the time modifiers
tframe.num++; // Counts number of updates per second
tframe.sum += tframe.gap; // Counts movement updates per second
}
else
{
tframe.gap = 0;
}
if (key[SCAN_Z])
{
PrintString(2,2,screen,0,'Framerate: '+str(tframe.rate));
PrintString(2,12,screen,0,'Framein: '+str(tframe.disp));
PrintString(2,22,screen,0,'Timer: '+str(tframe.sec));
}
}
Have FrameThrottle be hooked. And have tframe.gap to increment anything that needs to do so over time (like animation or turn gauge), where the 'gap' is in centiseconds since the last update. It works well for a lot of things, trust me.
I wouldn't recommend frame throttling for everything, but it gives pretty smooth results.
