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TGB - Dertmining Framerate/FPS?

by Brian Wilson · in Torque Game Builder · 05/10/2008 (4:01 am) · 2 replies

Is there a way to access the vars direction in setDebugOn(0) to capure the current framerate? Or is there another method of getting the current framerate in TGB (1.7.2)?
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Torque Owner Brian Wilson
#1
05/11/2008 (5:55 am)
Ok, found it:

There is a generic function that pops up stats in a small text gui called metrics(%expr). The code is in ~/common/gameScripts/metrics.cs

function metrics(%expr)
{
   switch$(%expr)
   {
      case "audio":     %cb = "audioMetricsCallback()";
      case "debug":     %cb = "debugMetricsCallback()";
      case "fps":       %cb = "fpsMetricsCallback()";
      case "time":      %cb = "timeMetricsCallback()";
      case "texture":   
         GLEnableMetrics(true);
         %cb = "textureMetricsCallback()";

      case "video":     %cb = "videoMetricsCallback()";
   }

Which leads to fpsMetricsCallback() in the same file:
function fpsMetricsCallback()
{
   return " FPS: " @ $fps::real @ 
          "  mspf: " @ 1000 / $fps::real;
}

So:
%fps = getWord(fpsMetricsCallback(), 2);
%spf = getWord(fpsMetricsCallback(), 5);

Torque Owner Benjamin L. Grauer
#2
05/13/2008 (1:52 pm)
"echo($fps::real)" gives you the current fps anytime. Just like old tribes 2 scripting :o