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Silveraura
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31st May, 2003 at 19:28:45 -
I am working on a Sonic game call Sonic 4 & it using custom movement, only problem with this is that the game needs to run full speed or else it will not work currectly.
For example, Jumping: When jump in full speed, the Sonic jumps high, but when its going even a tiny bit slower then full speed, he can't jump high enough to get & most places causing real problems. It works the same with springs, they don't spring you as high as they should.
I know the reason, the timmer runs at the same speed the entire time. But when the games running slower & I have timmed things, the timmed things will come to earyly. Which is what I am asking.
Is there anyway to speed up the game & play FULL frames, or make the game's timmer run at the same speed as the game?
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Hayo
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31st May, 2003 at 19:45:30 -
Well..you have to choose between full frames, with timer problems when the game runs slow
OR skipping frames (machine independ speed)without timer problems. The only way to speed your game up is using less active objects, a smaller window, or maybe less code (?)
or maybe there is an extension for this, dunno bout that.
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ShadowCaster
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31st May, 2003 at 21:44:16 -
Selecting "Machine Independent Speed" will fix your problem by skipping frames in order to keep the speed of the game. If you would prefer it to be fully-framed, then you'll need to use a custom engine. It's pretty easy to do jumping using Alterable Values. Set the first alterable value to the max height, set the second to 0 (when not jumping), 1 (when jumping), 2 (when falling from a jump). Then when Alterable Value B is equal to 1 you just keep adding to the object's position until it's equal to or greater than the value in Alterable Value A. Same concept for downwards.
 Mike 
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Jakku
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1st June, 2003 at 03:30:19 -
Brandon, since you're already using a custom movement, you'll simply have to find a replacement for the timer.
Try this: Always add 1 to a value. If it equals, say, 5, set it to zero again. Now just use this value instead of the timer (value equals 1 -> action).
Upon jumping, you'll want to set the value to 0 again to always keep the jump height the same.
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Shen
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1st June, 2003 at 03:53:59 -
In MMF there's a thing called Modulo which gets the remainder of a division. So you can always add 1 to a counter, and if Counter Value mod 50 = 0, then a second has elapsed. (MMF loops about 50 times per second)
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Silveraura
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1st June, 2003 at 07:37:03 -
Thanks, & now I have desided that in the installer, I will give the user the choice to pick, 'Full Frames or Skip Frames' because if they have a fast computer, whats the point on making the game frames. The game works alot of times for me when I have EVERYTHING shut down & right after I had restarted my computer, only because for my computer thats the time it runs fastest.
Give me input on how you think of my installer idea.
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