Every 0.XX seconds in game time

[cboy123]

Just a simple question...
How many .XX does it make to have a second?
is it 0.6
or the whole 1?
For example

For 0.6
0.15 * 4 = 1 second

I think I explain it nice since I got a bad time explaining things.

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

2

because 0.6 x 2 = 1.20

or are you asking how many nano seconds in a second?

100 nano seconds is 1 second

 

[cboy123]

So... I need to have 10 instances to make my event

• Time - Every 0.10 seconds of game time

get a second.
I am having doubts on it... so now I know it is a nano-second, not milisecond. Thanks..

 

[TheLordOfChaos201]

well in truth it's either nano or millI seconds, it's just any hundred falls after the decimal because the decimal falls before 2 zeroes.

 

[Bribe]

1000 miliseconds == 1 second. That's why it's a MILIsecond, just like MILImeter. A 0.01 value is a centisecond, sometimes as a Jiffy in computer animation circles.

In WarCraft 3, it is useless to have an animation running faster than 1/60 times per second due to the game being processed at 60fps and not 120.

Edit: for reference, a nanosecond is a billionth of a second, so a millionth of a milisecond.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The answer is time in WC3 is relative. Many people forget that most games play at "very fast" which is closer to 1.5 or 2 game seconds per real second. On the other hand the game can also play at very slow which is closer to 0.5 or 0.75 game seconds per real second.

Periodic events and timers use game time. As such with a period of 1 second they will fire every 1 game second.

If you want real time then you need to either normalize game speed (recommended, use triggers to set to Normal which should be 1:1) or use TriggerSleepAction which is more close to real time with some other inaccuracy thrown in.

Out of principle you should design game mechanics around game time as that is the most scalable and correct approach. For cinematics you should also use game time but additionally normalize game speed so that they look correct, audio syncs correctly and they are more lag resistant for multiplayer.

 

[Wietlol]

for reference, a nanosecond is a billionth of a second, so a millionth of a milisecond.

This sounds odd to me... because here a nanosecond is not a billionth of a second, a picosecond is one billionth of a second...
But that is because here in the netherlands, we are one of the few that still use the proper numbers
10^(6*1) = million
10^(6*2) = billion
10^(6*3) = trillion
(Here is some nice stuff about the numbers... I thought UK also didnt use milliard, etc, but I may be wrong there.)

 

[Flux]

10^-9 second = 1 nanosecond. There, end of argument.

 

[cboy123]

Well, I was making a dynamic indexing when resurrecting dead heroes... and I need to count the real centi-seconds in order to make them to integer seconds.

Does
(0.10 second of game time) * 10 = 1 second of game time?

 

[Bribe]

Yes. 0.1*10 == 1.0 and 1.0 == 1 second game time.

 

[cboy123]

Thanks for clarifying...

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[Legal_Ease]

Jiff explained in GUI Events Time - Every 0.01 seconds of game time Conditions Actions Game - Display to (All players) the text: be back in a Jiff -------- 100 times per second, this message will repeat --------

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