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General / Re: Clock and openGL

« on: April 28, 2012, 06:40:12 am »

Ah, thanks for the replies.
I think I will switch to 2.0. I've been reading up on various methods for handling time and I believe a bit of the problem I am having is a lack of an understanding of how to actually use time with my animations. (This is my first time having to use time in a program lol).

Anyways... I'm going to read up on time management a bit more and then try to switch my program over to 2.0.

Thanks for your patients guys . I feel I have handled the description of my problem poorly lol. And I appreciate the replies. Stick with me I'll get better at the whole forum thing!

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General / Re: Clock and openGL

« on: April 27, 2012, 09:07:54 pm »

I do have "App->UseVerticalSync(true);"
declared in in my code but my frame rate seems to go way higher than 60fps.
I have no idea why it would do that :/ because my monitor is set to a refresh rate of 60hertz.

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General / Re: Clock and openGL

« on: April 27, 2012, 04:59:09 am »

So, instead of using

   "App->SetFramerateLimit(60);"

I've just put 

   while (Clock->GetElapsedTime() < 1.0/60.0);
   Clock->Reset();

at the end of my game loop. This seems to give a stable frame rate but it's only a temporary solution.
Here's some of my code.

https://gist.github.com/2505308

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General / Re: Clock and openGL

« on: April 26, 2012, 08:34:34 am »

Ah. that's a very good point. I've implemented your suggestion but I am still experiencing the choppiness.

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General / Re: Clock and openGL

« on: April 26, 2012, 12:17:17 am »

Oops, sorry for being vague. I actually call Clock->Reset(); at the end of my game loop.

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General / Clock and openGL

« on: April 25, 2012, 11:42:08 pm »

Hello, I'm pretty new here and new to game programming in general.
What I'm trying to do is make a game in openGL/SFML 1.6 and I realized that I need
a clock to have the same experience independent of how fast someone's computer is.

What I'm doing is something like this

void Sprite::updateX(float tempX)
{
   x += tempX*Clock->GetElapsedTime();
}

I've noticed there's a stutter in my animations that happens predictably with time.

Does anyone know a good tutorial on setting up a clock for use in a game or does anyone know how to properly use the clock feature to get rid of this stutter?