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zarka

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« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2008, 04:21:45 pm »
have your tried to multiply this line by frametime as well ?
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y += force - offset;

might solve it (not that i have look deeply into your code yet but if that doesn't work i will try to do that)
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« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2008, 05:29:11 pm »
Didn't work. the variable force has already been multiplied with the frame time when we get to that line of code.

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if(!standing)
force += gravity * frameRate;

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« Reply #17 on: October 01, 2008, 06:12:05 pm »
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Didn't work. the variable force has already been multiplied with the frame time when we get to that line of code.

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if(!standing)
force += gravity * frameRate;


strange... oh well i'm heading home from work now i will see if i can have a look at it when i get home ...
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« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2008, 09:43:37 pm »
ok, thanks.

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« Reply #19 on: October 08, 2008, 08:12:38 pm »
i don't know if you fixed this alredy but i finaly managed to remember to check this whan i was home and able to :)..
The problem is as others have pointed out this row:
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y += force - offset;

The reason is that your MAX_FORCE constant is not time based .. meaning that when your force reaches MAX_FORCE it will be frame rate depandant and not frame time depandant as you whant it to be :)

so heres a solution:
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//change it to a static const to keep c++ typesafety
static const float MAX_FORCE = 205.f;
...
//gravity should realy be a constant :)
const float gravity = 31.4f;
...
//and here we make sure it is kept time based
y += (force - offset) * frameRate;


now this should work fine :)
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