Another question, waits

[FriXionX]

Im helping my friend with his map, but he used game-time waits in some of his stuff. Ive heard they caused de-syncs so im helping him turn them back into normal waits. but does anybody know: How many seconds is 1 game-time second or vise versa? does anybody actually know the conversion? because this would save me alot of time.

 

[Piranha89]

It is exactly the other way round. Keep the waits as game-time waits, since they are synced by using a timer that works for all players equally

 

[FriXionX]

But dont they cause de-syncs?.. thats my worry.

 

[Piranha89]

But dont they cause de-syncs?.. thats my worry.

Normal waits are the ones that may cause desyncs, game-time waits are specified to make all players finish that wait equally.
I myself have never had any desync problems out of game-time waits.

 

[FriXionX]

never heard of normal waits causing de-syncs before.. :S

 

[Piranha89]

Well simply watch the function for wait (game time). It still uses Triggersleepaction but an additional timer to syncronize other players.

function PolledWait takes real duration returns nothing
    local timer t
    local real  timeRemaining

    if (duration > 0) then
        set t = CreateTimer()
        call TimerStart(t, duration, false, null)
        loop
            set timeRemaining = TimerGetRemaining(t)
            exitwhen timeRemaining <= 0

            // If we have a bit of time left, skip past 10% of the remaining
            // duration instead of checking every interval, to minimize the
            // polling on long waits.
            if (timeRemaining > bj_POLLED_WAIT_SKIP_THRESHOLD) then
                call TriggerSleepAction(0.1 * timeRemaining)
            else
                call TriggerSleepAction(bj_POLLED_WAIT_INTERVAL)
            endif
        endloop
        call DestroyTimer(t)
    endif
endfunction

 

[FriXionX]

Sorry i dont understand jass. Tried to work out what it meant but couldnt find out :S

ok, if you say game-time waits are good, ill leave those how it is, thanks.