What about a method that gives access to the Timer

Adversus · Post by **Adversus** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:18 pm

As it belongs to the device there's no easy way to do this.

LunarEffect · Post by **LunarEffect** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:42 pm

Its not that hard really?

ITimer *timer = device->getTimer();

and then all you have to do is...

timer->getTime();

JP · Post by JP » Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:10 pm

I guess you're saying this because you don't have access to the device where you need the timer... but then how would you propose another function would provide you with the timer if not via the device (its owner)?

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:15 pm

JP wrote:but then how would you propose another function would provide you with the timer if not via the device (its owner)?

Singletons n00b!!!

Strong99 · Post by **Strong99** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:07 pm

maybe he means like videodriver is accesible in the gui env and the scenemanager?

LunarEffect · Post by **LunarEffect** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:40 pm

Theres always the possibilty to write your own timer, which works just as well...

time.h gives you the function clock() and the attribute CLOCKS_PER_SEC. Its quite easy to assemble it into a working timer =)

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:30 pm

CuteAlien wrote an extension/patch for multiple timers, if that's what you need you can find it here

JP · Post by JP » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:06 am

Halifax wrote:
JP wrote:but then how would you propose another function would provide you with the timer if not via the device (its owner)?
Singletons n00b!!!

Aye but Irrlicht dun use dose newb

Adversus · Post by **Adversus** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:00 pm

You don't have access to the device when you create an entity using a factory i.e. one loaded in from xml.

So therefore you can't simply pass in a reference.

Oh and for singletons. I try to avoid them as they're effectively global variables and can cause unforseen problems (i.e. using it for your SceneManager), but for this case that's not the reason. I would simply never have access to it to create it in the first place as I'm writing a CustomSceneNode in IrrEdit without IrrEdit's source code so all I can "see" is the SceneManager.

Oh and I have 7 years experience in C++ and two published games under my belt for Namco and EA Halifax. Just out of curiosity, what's your resume?

btw - I got round the problem by using the same method in the example Animators by just doing:

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// first update?
if( firstUpdate )
{
	lastTime = timeMs;
	firstUpdate = false;
}
// find the delta time in seconds
f32 timeDelta = (f32) (timeMs - lastTime) / 1000.0f;

However it just seemed a bit wasteful.

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:31 pm

Adversus wrote:Oh and I have 7 years experience in C++ and two published games under my belt for Namco and EA Halifax. Just out of curiosity, what's your resume?

My respone wasn't an attack...I was joking around with JP.

JP · Post by JP » Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:26 pm

I has mor pohsts dan yew

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hayate · Post by **hayate** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:19 pm

Adversus wrote:...
two published games under my belt for Namco and EA Halifax
...

I'm just curious: what's the name of these games?

Adversus · Post by **Adversus** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:15 pm

I-Ninja and Catwoman (yea I know it was crap but we had around 8 months to do it and the design was poo). Ninja was a good little game though.

yea ok Halifax, reading it back I realise that now. I apologise. It's just that sometimes people are put off by others that know only a little more than they do and want to simply make themselves feel better. That and I was having one of those days