Apps A couple coding and development questions

[donovanvaught]

Yep, using deltatime

 

[jonbonazza]

Apologies, but still haven't had time to look at the code. For the delta time, are you use System.currentTimeMillis or System.nanoTime?

 

[donovanvaught]

calling nanoTime

 

[jonbonazza]

Hmm ok, well that's what you should be calling. Ill try to take a look at your code today once i get this task for my engine complete

 

[donovanvaught]

so any luck with the code?

 

[jonbonazza]

I am looking at it right now and I don't see anything wrong with how you went about things. Hell, you even have a object pooling system implemented to reuse game objects in order to forego the overhead of instantiating new objects. You seem to be doing everything correctly, and on top of that, I still do not see the "enemy speed up" you guys are seeing.

 

[jonbonazza]

Tell you what you should do: put a label in the upper right- or left-hand corner of the screen that shows the current fps. See if you can spot a drop in FPS at all, or even a speed up.

 

[jonbonazza]

Another thing I can suggest is perhaps the GC is spiking at those points. Java game dev is a finicky sucker, after all.

 

[donovanvaught]

well, as for the fps, I thought of that from the start, Xd I said at first post that I get consistent 52-54 fps. it literally fluctuates with almost a pattern from 52-54 and back. As far as the GC, um, what's that? and is there a way I can fix it? By the way I'm glad the code looks good! glad u like it, never sure if what I've learned and the stuff I come up with are ever good. and as usual, thanks for helping!

 

[jonbonazza]

The GC is the garbage collector. Tho a spike in the GC woupd make the frame rate drop significantly, so if the fps is relatively consistent, i doubt thats the case. In all honesty i am at a loss. Ill take another gander today. I have one more thing i want to look at. Ill post back if i find anything