does "wait" have dt?

i believe its only behaviors that have dt built in ...

that being said, there is a clear divide in my office as to whether or not the wait action uses dt

so to clear this up ...

-does the wait action use dt?

-if not, should you use dt with it?

thanks for your help in this matter

-Rik

All behaviors use dt. Wait uses seconds as a base, so it is framerate independent by nature. You generally do not want to use dt with the wait x seconds action.

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/67/del ... dependence

The question actually makes no sense: "wait" already works in units of time, not frames, so dt is irrelevant to it. It is outright wrong to use "dt" in any expressions that work with units of time, e.g. "Every X * dt seconds" is simply incorrect and actually breaks framerate independence.

THANK YOU !

i realize now the way i worded the question was weird... but the replies validated the point i was trying to make!

so again... thanks!!!!

That will still not guarantee that a 'in game time unit' is the same as a 'outside game (real) time unit'.

Or. A second in the game will usaly not be a second on your watch.

Time units in the game will be differend then those on the watch on your wrist when you use timescaling, but also in case of low frame rates.

In other words: when dt gets bigger, 'game time' will pass slower.

It's not only framerate dependent.

Way worse are 'heavy ticks' / 'low detection rates' as 99Instances2Go has put it

So 1sec wait can be somewhere between 1sec and 3sec in real world

There is a whole thread Real World Time vs C2

timebug-or-missunderstanding_t170501?&hilit=bug

Here the example with just a big loop from 99Instances2Go

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1SSu ... UlLWWNqRnM

fm4fanAT & 99Instances2Go

you guys have captured the explanation i was unable to verbalize !

thanks for the input and the links... i will share with the team so a better understanding can be had by all

=Rik