New Editor Release and Bug Report

What you're talking about is tick based updating vs time based updating. It would completely change the physics.
WHat can be done is splitting the physics from the drawing. It makes things slightly smoother, but you have to regulate the fps a bit so that some lower end devices don't slow down even more.
On the newer version I have developed (not released yet) I have split the drawing and physics. It currently has a physics rate of 25fps and a drawing rate of 60fps.

It is very easy to change the current version (Its just a config variable) , but I need to provide an option for 25 or 30fps for players who prefer the latter.
FPS actually changes the leaderboard times tho, so that also would need to change. Its not complicated, but one more thing to take into consideration.

 

I didn't even think about leaderboard times.
Just an idea, but maybe you could make the clock run a bit slower for 25fps and a bit faster for 30fps, so that the leaderboard times remain the same regardless of the fps.
I can see how warping the time is probably a bad idea but I'm just throwing it out there.

 

No its not a big deal at the end of a day, because a tick is a tick.
When you complete a track it is "How many ticks did it take?" not how much time.
I calculate the time (ms) by taking the number of ticks / fps * 1000. I just do everything in ms because....javascript

Example

PHP:

    var ms = ticks/fps * 1000
    var minutes = mathFloor(ms / 60000);
    var seconds = (ms - (minutes * 60000)) / 1000;
    seconds = seconds.toFixed(2);

    if (seconds < 10) {
        seconds = "0" + seconds;
    }
   var time =  minutes + ":" + seconds;



 

So maybe you could make "game seconds"
25 ticks per real second, but one game second happens every 27.5 ticks.
Or 30 ticks per real second, but one game second still happens every 27.5 ticks.
If you use the game seconds to calculate the time it takes to complete a track, then at 30fps, the game clock would actually run quicker than a real clock, and if you are playing at 25fps, it would run slower than a real clock.

So basically, in the code you posted, replace the variable fps with 27.5.
I'm not sure if I am making myself clear, but I'm trying my best.

 

5000 ticks 25fps = 3:20.00
5000 ticks 30fps = 2:46.67

Clock is real time (ish) , its not running faster or slower. The time the player is playing is.
This is the correct way to do it.

The way you are explaining it, the time would be all messed up. I guess I see what you are saying. It would mess with people tho

 

Yeah I was just throwing it out there as a possibility.

 

ya for sure. Appreciate the discussions!

 

i just did something by mistake while i was playing FRHD i dont know what i pressed but it froze my computer then shut it down but when i went back to FRHD the editor just goes to a white screen and doesnt load please tell me what to do i have reloaded the tab and turned my computer off and on several times but nothing changes just a white screen help please

 

Is anybody else getting tired of people not doing anything at all to become an Official Author. Here lately for some reason people have been making nubes at the game an official author and they have not even made one track. They should have to earn their way to being an Official Author. Just like everybody else. I had made about 30 Tracks before I had even asked to be an Official Author. And I asked for it to be based on if my tracks were good or not. If they really want to be part of the game and be part of FreeRiderHD Nation then they need to work for it. They have to want it. So. What I am proposing is that anybody that is wanting to be an Official Author sign up for a elimination contest. 16 Track Makers that are not an Official Author yet will be put in this Tournament. Every round the person with the better track will go on to the next Elimination Round. Until there are 1 or 2 track makers left. Those 2 track makers will go up against each other and they will prove how bad they want to be an Official Author. IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE I SAY

http://frhd.co/t/311145-impossible-track-2
This WIll Not Cut it anymore. They have to be the best of their abilities. If Not They Are Out!!!

 

lol, listen. Official Author as of right now isn't a qualifier.
It removes the constraints that we have put on the average player.
Hopefully we will have a tier system in the future. I don't know how it will work or what it will be.

Im not going to ruin someones day over a game and deny them official author based on my judgement. I think that the official author should be a result of stats and programatically set. We want to remove the need to manually give people official author in the future.

 

Can We Limit them to what they can do as the official author then. It gets annoying when people make time wasting tracks that nobody can beat. Dont you think?

 

"we're going to restrict you because you're good. make tracks just the way we want them or we'll remove you from official author! "
no it doesn't work like that. acknowledging someone's abilities doesn't mean you can restrict their creative abilities. official authors really don't normally make cruddy tracks like the one you posted, but if they do. it was normally before they tried with tracks. take your own case, you copied 4 of your tracks, but now you make decent (?) tracks. same with me, and with a bunch of other people. don't get too radical duderino, that doesn't work here

 

I Didn't make that track. It was a track i had played. How about this. In the track creator space there should be a two boxs that you can click be added. when you go to publish the track you will say if it is a art track that is unbeatable or if it is a regular track that you have to beat. So that way we a way to tell if it is beatable or not. Then if you click art it will be a track that you can look at and play but won't really count as a track. If you click regular track there will be a ghost that goes through the whole track to make sure that it is beatable. Does It Sound Like A Good Idea?

 

In the track creator space there should be a two boxs that you can click be added. when you go to publish the track you will say if it is a art track that is unbeatable or if it is a regular track that you have to beat. So that way we a way to tell if it is beatable or not. Then if you click art it will be a track that you can look at and play but won't really count as a track. If you click regular track there will be a ghost that goes through the whole track to make sure that it is beatable. Does It Sound Like A Good Idea?

 

That sounds like an awful waste of time and resources, which will accomplish nothing at all.

 

It has been really fun to use here lately. Really with you could change the width of your lines and I think it would be really cool if you could have different colors (colours) other than black and white.
Also when will the new rider gear be coming out?? I have been waiting months now and have not seen any change in them...

 

no

 

i meant for the background detailing. Not for the actual track itself. That or different colored bikes depending on how many RP you have.

 

Yo Char when is FR coming out with the sick update with handgear and such? That has been coming soon for years

 

well this just got awkward