Does adding deltatime to variable per tick work?

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hi All

I may have misunderstood deltatime, but I’m trying to make something happen after a specific amount of time, and deltatime appears to be running very fast.

I’m adding deltatime to a variable that starts at 0.0. Deltatime is added every tick. When it reaches 2.0, as far as I understand, that should be 2 seconds. However, it seems to be one second. If I change it to 4, it seems to execute after 2 seconds. Have I misunderstood something?

Thanks!

EDIT: I changed the execute variable to 10.0 and timed it and it’s running quite a lot faster than double speed. It crossed my mind- my card is a superclocked 780Ti. Would hardware have an effect on this?

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Why don’t you use timers?

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The count per tick happens under certain conditions- it can stop at any point if those conditions aren’t right. I think whats happening is a component that is counted per tick, is being counted more than once per tick, even though there’s only one of that type of component…

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Yes it does. very accurately with no variation depending on graphics card etc. I was missing a return/break; in an earlier loop and the net result was that deltatime was being added more than once per tick…