Is Director the right choice for time sensitive game

 
I believe that NoiseCrime is correct. Director is doing the
bulk of its
own housekeeping work on the exitFrame. prepareFrame just
slows down
entry into the frame. enterFrame has lots of free time. As
Buzz, one of
the Director architects told me, always put your code in the
enterFrame.

Kraig

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At 10:17 AM -0500 3/31/06, Mentor, Kraig wrote:
>
>I believe that NoiseCrime is correct. Director is doing
the bulk of its
>own housekeeping work on the exitFrame.

I don't think that explains the difference in frame rate
between 
using enterframe and exitframe, it's much simpler.
exitframe happens 
at the end of the time for that frame, for a 30 fps movie
we're 33.3 
mS into the frame timing. Anything you do at that point
prolongs this 
frame, causing it to be longer, and therefore a lower frame
rate. 
enterframe happens near the start of the frame's timing
(perhaps 
depending on how much prepareframe stuff you have). You
could have 33 
mS worth of code in the enterframe handler without it
affecting the 
frame timing.

So, enterframe scripts don't run faster or compete with
less going on 
in the engine, they just have less effect on the frame
timing than 
the same routine in exitframe would have.

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Am 31.03.2006 um 17:17 schrieb Mentor, Kraig:

>
> I believe that NoiseCrime is correct.

that's always a pretty safe bet.


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>
> I believe that NoiseCrime is correct.

that's always a pretty safe bet.


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Please note that Buzz and some other architects (hi) were
Architects  
of QA.  Not of the core or Lingo.

DJ, JHT, Good, Greggy, Shepherd, Lalit, Calaprice, Edmunds
and so on  
were the real code monkeys.


On Mar 31, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Mentor, Kraig wrote:

>
> I believe that NoiseCrime is correct. Director is doing
the bulk of  
> its
> own housekeeping work on the exitFrame. prepareFrame
just slows down
> entry into the frame. enterFrame has lots of free time.
As Buzz,  
> one of
> the Director architects told me, always put your code
in the  
> enterFrame.
>
> Kraig
>
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