timing of events with save game

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slenkar (Posted 2009) [#1]

Hi I put the millisecs value in a field to keep track of when a spaceship last fired a bullet. so a spaceship can only fire once every 2 seconds, WHen I load and save the game, it gets all messed up because millisecs wraps around etc. etc. So how would I keep track of when a ship last fired a bullet?

Kurator (Posted 2009) [#2]

save the current millisecs also - so you can recalculate the difference on loading :)

ImaginaryHuman (Posted 2009) [#3]

Check out the thread which I think BlitzSupport posted about how to overcome the shortcomings of MilliSecs() using Longs and some clever manipulation.

slenkar (Posted 2009) [#4]

thanks, got it sorted now, I recalculated the difference