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Lerping Time.timeScale causes laggy physics
I am using unity as my game development platform. I was trying to create script that could interpolate time scale to achieve a flurry rush.
The code below is my attempt:
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How to ensure smooth animation when making spline longer?
In Unity, I have a Spline that I'm using to move an object. During the game, the player can add new knots to this Spline as the object moves forward. e.g if they want the object to go right, they can ...
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custom metronome is not consistent
In Unity 2022.3.12f1, I made a metronome. Here is a minimal working example:
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How to detect when console system time was changed since the game was last run, without a net connection?
As an example of the behaviour I want to implement in my game, look at Bloons TD 5 on the PS4/PS5 and its Daily Chest Reward. If you disconnect the internet and change the date and time and play the ...
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How to pause or slow down/speed up Time.deltaTime when it is inside the Update() method?
My player is able to dive for a limited amount of seconds (let's say 10 seconds) while swimming. When he's not diving his breath gauge fills up again to a max of 10 seconds:
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Coroutine delay isn't consistent on different framerates
My problem:
I am using a coroutine to add a typewriter effect to my texts, but the delay (using yield return new WaitForSeconds();) isn't consistent on different ...
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Synchronizing in-game clock vs real world clocks across servers started at different times
Regardless if you know how Roblox works or if you know Lua syntax, I just need an algorithm/equation here.
Currently, at the start of each server, I reference the seconds of a centralized clock since ...
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Cooldown in the new input system of unity
A few days ago I first used the new input system of unity for my game and I ran into a problem. So basically I cant seem to figure out how to implement cooldown in the new system. Either it just ...
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How can I change the default dawn and dusk times in Unity?
I'm working on a game in which the season is particularly important to the player, along with sunlight. It progresses from early spring to late fall. I have a very basic day/night cycle system working,...
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Signalling time-expiry to clients in a browser-based multiplayer game
I'm trying to develop my first ever browser-based multiplayer game that utilizes my own websocket server which has no multi-threading capability.
It will be a game where players try to be the fastest ...
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AnimatorUpdateMode.UnscaledTime not working
So using what I found on my other question, I wrote this code:
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frameskipping in Pygame?
I am struggling to find a solution on how to skip frames and keep the game at a constant pace, I had tried using
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Time.fixedDeltaTime & Time.deltaTime in Unity
The old Unity 5.3 documentation said:
Time.fixedDeltaTime
The interval in seconds at which physics and other fixed frame rate
updates (like MonoBehaviour's FixedUpdate) are performed.
For reading the ...
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How does time-dependent camera rotation with a mouse work?
The commonly used equation for camera rotation with a mouse does not involve time. This make sense since higher frame rates have smaller changes in mouse position and vise-versa so it all evens out. ...
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How to correctly implement custom tick system?
I am making a custom tick system to suit my needs (calling normal ticks every 0.2 seconds, medium ticks every 5 seconds etc...)
I followed the tutorial in this video: CodeMonkey tick system tutorial
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How to apply Time.timeScale only to certain scripts?
I have a need to pause my game and the simplest and most clean way that I know of (other than completely designing my own time system) is by using ...
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I do not understand the code version of time based sprite animation?
I'm Universo and for the longest time had coding issues around the concept of time-based sprite animation basically, do not know how to implement it and any code or explanation simple or complex that ...
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Synchronizing clients
I have a server-client setup where each client has a number of screens attached, and the screens together form the display. As such, the visuals displayed by each client needs to be roughly in sync. ...
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How to make score points based on time
So the idea is simple.
a) Players why finish the level faster, should get higher score.
b) The levels (1 to N) where every next becomes more difficult should impact the score.
So it's kind of mix of &...
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Time-passed check with Pause functionality
I am working on a game that has a lot of time-passed checks of the following format. These work great, but there is a problem when the game is paused:
If paused for any meaningful amount of time, the ...
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Multiple events based on in-game timer?
I've been thinking about how Zelda: Majora's Mask manages all its character events during the day and thinking about the best way to implement this. Initially I thought of each character entity ...
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Unity data sampling rate
I'm using the Unity as a physic simulation and I want to gather the data of object position from it. So I put my code about random the force and apply to that object. Also the part that Write the data ...
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Unity3D - Despite using Time.deltaTime, my camera and player move faster at higher framerates
I'm pretty new to c# and Unity so I wouldn't be surprised if I had made some stupid mistakes, but as far as I know, I don't think I misused Time.deltaTime. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Formula for calculating time difference regardless of speed
See the following situation:
The first car has a speed of 10 pixels per second and completes one lap in a circuit in 84 seconds.
I want the ...
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How to make a more accurate lap time? get_timer() LIMITATION?
In the room there are 22 cars. All cars have a different speed.
The cars are numbered from 1 to 22 with the help of the variable carNumber.
CODE - obj_Car / Set car speed (Create Event):
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