• AlecSadler
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    3 months ago

    As a programmer but having never used Unity, what does this mean?

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      3 months ago

      I’ve never used unity either, sounds like they used a property that means “variable time between frames” in a context that is expecting a constant.

      Almost sounds like they were setting up a “thing happens faster if your CPU is faster” type of logical bug that the engine is at least preventing internally.

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        3 months ago

        DeltaTime is the old “tie the physics to the framerrate” thing old console games did because they knew they’d be running at a certain frame rate

        When I was learning unity for a week it was literally lesson #2 in 3 different video lesson series NOT to use DeltaTime like that

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          3 months ago

          Oh god. This brings me back to QBASIC days and how I upgraded my computer and it broke all my programs because I was an idiot and controlled time delays using for-loops, lol.