Realtime playback

[sKeLeTr0n]

Hey, not really an Issue but whatever :P How can I know how many milliseconds I need to wait for the next tick, to play it in realtime? So how many milliseconds I need per tick? Do you know that?

[sKeLeTr0n]

"(_parser.Header.PlaybackTime * 1000) / _parser.Header.PlaybackFrames" is pretty close but I think that is not 100% realtime...and "_parser.TickRate" is way to fast.

[moritzuehling]

Hey,

look into DemoParser.cs, lines 68-78: https://github.com/moritzuehling/demoinfo-public/blob/master/DemoInfo/DemoParser.cs

public float TickRate
        {
            get { return this.Header.PlaybackFrames / this.Header.PlaybackTime; }
        }

        public float TickTime
        {
            get { return this.Header.PlaybackTime / this.Header.PlaybackFrames; }
        }

        public int CurrrentTick { get; private set; }
        public double CurrentTime { get; private set; }

CurrentTime is currently not set (that's a bug, I'll fix this tomorrow), but you can use CurrentTick.

1 Tick is TickTime Seconds long. You can use this to play a demo in Realtime.

A quick way to parse a demo in realtime: https://gist.github.com/moritzuehling/cb4df828dc0ff48e1bb9 (This is an excerpt of an other project of me, I deleted some unnecesary stuff. But the important part is here.

        timeSinceLastFrame += elapsedGameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds; //Okay, time has moved. 

            while (timeSinceLastFrame > parser.TickTime) //As long as we're in the future
            {
                parser.ParseNextTick(); //Parse a tick
                timeSinceLastFrame -= parser.TickTime; //We're now parser.TickTime nearer to the future
            }
        //Do something else, draw the stuff. 

elapsedGameTime is the time since the last call of the Update-Method.

This seems to be realtime at least for me.

I hope I could help!