Delta Time - Streamlined Time Keeping For Games
jordan4ibanez
jordan4ibanez002 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 00:32:25 UTC 2022
This library is extremely simple. A time keeping library for game
development.
You can see/get it here:
https://code.dlang.org/packages/delta_time
Many things in games are bound to a simple constraint: time. In
years past, games would commonly link the game's logic to the
FPS, but if FPS goes too high, or too low. All of a sudden the
player's experience is greatly skewed. So a very simple fix for
this was to get a calculation of the time between the last frame
and the current frame, then multiply all logic by this value.
This library allows you to track it precisely between frames.
Nanoseconds precise.
Here's a bare bones example on how to use it:
```d
import delta_time;
void main() {
bool gameRunning = true;
// The root loop of the entire game
while(gameRunning) {
calculateDelta();
// Now anywhere in the program on the main thread
// if delta_time is imported, it can access it by running
this:
double theDelta = getDelta();
}
}
```
The first delta will always be 0, as there is no before time to
calculate. Hopefully this helps you with your game. Thanks for
reading.
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