rate of button presses - how would you do this?
SquareHeart
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I've been working on a quick-and-dirty button masher for the hell of it. Now, thinking this was easy (foolish!) I've discovered a rich vein of non-knowledge that I'm currently mining. I've got my pickaxe stuck in one particular problem and just can't seem to get it working.
I'm trying to effectively create a speedometer that will show the rate of button presses (the game is just a button spamming how-many-presses-in-30secs-type-affair).
I've tried the ol' rate = distance/time (with distance being button presses) but it just doesn't seem to calculate right. (seems to end up as an average of the button presses over total time
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I've tried doing a modulus of actual button presses against a timer that captures button presses every .x secs (that probably doesn't make sense) but it kinda works but it reverts back every .x cycle and fails miserably.
the goal to be able to calculate the rate of the button was to be able to control the opacity of an "on fire" effect and trigger comments amongst a pile of other stuff - this also requires the ability to be able to figure out how long the rate holds at (i.e if player maintains a rate of 10button presses per sec for 3 secs - show actor "great guns!"), this is the next challenge
any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
I'm trying to effectively create a speedometer that will show the rate of button presses (the game is just a button spamming how-many-presses-in-30secs-type-affair).
I've tried the ol' rate = distance/time (with distance being button presses) but it just doesn't seem to calculate right. (seems to end up as an average of the button presses over total time
)I've tried doing a modulus of actual button presses against a timer that captures button presses every .x secs (that probably doesn't make sense) but it kinda works but it reverts back every .x cycle and fails miserably.
the goal to be able to calculate the rate of the button was to be able to control the opacity of an "on fire" effect and trigger comments amongst a pile of other stuff - this also requires the ability to be able to figure out how long the rate holds at (i.e if player maintains a rate of 10button presses per sec for 3 secs - show actor "great guns!"), this is the next challenge
any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
Comments
1) i just made it for you
http://www.mediafire.com/?995zq04dv6fedyu
2) please don't make a "tap as much as you can" game out of it and upload to the appstore
Roy.
Just have to update my game salad........*insert rainbow beach ball here*.....
Okay yup, that looks nice and simple, sample number of taps per x sec. Looks like I was trying to be too clever with my mathZ
thanks again, your help is much appreciated.