Is the engine still running at 18FPS? I guess a fair option would be 36 FPS then. Doubling the framerate would sound easier to support than fine grained any-frame-rate.
Then you could call it from script as something like setupdaterate(normal) and 36 would be setupdaterate(double). That way if people really need it for something like smoother gameplay in a minigame, they can turn it on for the minigame and then drop back to 18FPS for normal gameplay. Then I would assume (unless you're going to make it a CUSTOM level option) that a game should run in the existing frame rate upon load, and require authors that want MOAR FRAMEZ to put the higher frame rate command in their newgame / loadgame script. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:00 PM, James Paige <b...@hamsterrepublic.com> wrote: > Newbie Power (and others) brought up adjustable frame rate on IRC. > People know about CTRL+ CTRL- debugging keys, and would like to be able > to do the same from a script... but how can we safely allow a feature > like that without adding headaches for ourselves later? > > I was previously worried about allowing this to be set at runtime, > thinking that when it was customizable it would only be set on a > whole-game basis in custom... but I am not sure that is a valid > position. > > I was also previously thinking that we should make all types of > animation speeds customizable first before allowing people to adjust > game frame rate... but now I am thinking that is an invalid argument... > plus, adding the frame rate customization now, would make it really easy > to locate all the places that need their own animation speed settings. > > How do you feel about this TMC? > > Also, even if we do allow frame rate setting, we should cap it to > something reasonable so people can't make games that depend on insanely > fast computers, and that will not run on normal speed ones. (which they > probably wouldn't be able to do anyway because of input issues?) > > Input issues! I almost forgot! Changing frame rates has some serious > consequences for input too, doesn't it? > > --- > James > _______________________________________________ > Ohrrpgce mailing list > ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org > http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org > _______________________________________________ Ohrrpgce mailing list ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
