by Gez wrote:I still want an explanation on that 35.725 tics per second thing. TICRATE is defined as an integer.
Ever wondered why the FPS meter read 36 instead of 35? Randy specifically explained this in a post that I was going to link to here, but I can't find it and I specifically remember it was in off-topic, so it probably got deleted because the thread that he posted in was too old. In fact, I sent a PM to Randy.
And Octics aren't exactly 1/8th of a second because I had severe timing problems with my moving camera while assuming so, trying to get it to align with a script I was writing. I noticed that, assuming an octic was 1/8.0 of a second, my events were slowly desynchronizing, the script firing off too late as the camera was drifting slightly faster than I expected it to, implying that it was shorter than 1/8.0. So I did some quick math, comparing how far along the path the camera was to the first desynchronized event, and the math wound up giving me 1/8.57 instead of exactly 1/8.0.
Using 1/8.57 as a base for my calculations, my script's events now time perfectly with the movement of the camera.
So knowing this is important concerning synchronizing time of events.
