When to take a screen snap shot?

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Jager (Posted 2004) [#1]

Ok, I'm creating AVI file from group of screen snap shots but cannot get the timing correct. Say, if I'm running at 30 FPS, when should I grab a snapshot using the millisec() function? or maybe I should be using another? Thanks

eBusiness (Posted 2004) [#2]

You should grab an image for every frame, decide how many times you will run the engine logics per frame, more for less frames a sec. I assume you don't need to catch the frames realtime, so turn on all the funky rendeering options.

Gun Ecstasy (Posted 2004) [#3]

I'm pretty sure that you take a shot every 33.333333333333333333333333333333 milliseconds. ;)

WolRon (Posted 2004) [#4]

If the AVI is not being collected from realtime footage, then just discard the Millisecs() timer all-together and just update your game logic by 33.333 milliseconds delta time (and like eBusiness said, turn on all of the effects).