I just realized why my little snippet didn't fit so well into the
conversation of basing things off player velocity.
I used a playerSpeedConstant rather than velocity. Seems obvious, but
sometimes I miss the obvious, smile.
So here it is again:
float distanceTravelledThisFrame = secondsElapsedSinceLastFrame *
playerVelocity;
In this way velocity is measured in distance units per second.
The default distance unit in DirectX is meters so your character moves
at X meters per second.
I should also note that the secondsElapsedSinceLastFrame variable is a
float or double and usually around 1 60th of a second, not multiple seconds.
Ian Reed
On 8/1/2013 5:10 AM, Ryan Strunk wrote:
Hi Cara,
I'm curious about the frame rate concept. I assume this would be based on
the time of your game loop? If your game loop is instructed to wait 5
milliseconds at the end to save processing power, then the movement rate
would, in essence, be triggered every 5 milliseconds? For faster characters,
you would just give them greater velocities?
Thanks much,
Ryan
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