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Impulse uses frame time?

by James Sayer · in Torque Game Builder · 07/28/2005 (8:21 pm) · 1 replies

Quick question about impulse: Does it factor in the delta frame time?

E.g. to make mario jump I would call this one time:
$mario.setImpulseForcePolar( 0, 20 )

But for a space shooter where the force is being applied every frame I should factor in time so that it remains framerate independant:
$ship.setImpulseForcePolar( %angle, 200 * deltaT ) ;

Is this correct? Thanks!
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Associate Melv May
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07/29/2005 (12:44 am)
Impulse forces were being integrated before which was a mistake. This has been taken out now. Unfortunately, this meant that impulse forces were unpredictable when not using the FPS control in T2D.

This has, of course, been rectified in the next release.

- Melv.