[Ohrrpgce] Setting fps via scripts

[James Paige]

The second one is definitely what I am going for, because it can be done
very simply. The first would be good and useful, but would require a lot of
work actually making animation speeds and movement speeds support it

Fps or frame rate might be the wrong name for this command... Maybe "set
tick size in milliseconds"?

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James Paige

On Monday, April 8, 2019, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's two different ways in which you might want to change the fps: so
> that speed of the game, as perceived by the player, stays the same, or so
> that it changes.
>
> -In the first case movement and animation speeds adjust their pixels or
> frames per tick to stay at the same pixels or frames per second. Not sure
> about script waits and camera/slice movement commands: that might be the
> responsibility of the script author, or we might add a bitset which makes
> 'wait' count in multiples of 55ms rather than ticks, etc.
>
> -In the second case nothing is adjusted, so everything appears to move
> slower/faster. Even keyrepeat speeds up/slows down if you want to be strict
> about it. It's possible to increase the fps past 60, even to 1000.
>
> The second case is useful for fast forwarding, as you might want in game
> that lets you watch a replay of a level you just played. Someone did
> request that of me. The script command for this would take a multiplier,
> not a frame rate.
>
> Potentially we could add commands for either or both of the above. I think
> that for your use case (Axe dartle?) it would make no difference?
> But I don't want to end up with a script command that causes some mixture
> of the above effects... unfortunately, adjusting the framerate already does
> : (
>
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 03:32, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> I think I was hesitant about this before, but now I do really want to add
>> scripting commands that can change fps on the fly
>>
>> The obvious use case for me is when you want to script a mini-game that
>> runs at a different fps than the main game, but I am sure other people will
>> come up with interesting ways to use it, and that is good.
>>
>> I am wondering how it should work. If we had floats in plotscripting it
>> would be obvious, but since I want it to work with ints I am a bit unsure
>> which is the best interface
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