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Rendering time independent object animation [SOLVED]

Postby teo2k » Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:59 pm

Hi All,

I'm doing some experiments with OpenGL using the GLSurfaceView introduced in 1.5

In my Renderer I keep track of the time spent to render the last frame and pass this value to the method that update my model. The goal is to keep objects movements on the screen independent from the rendering time.

Now... this seems to work perfectly in the emulator, but on the real device is at least 4/5 times slower!!!

Has anyone experienced the same problem? Or, anyone has a clue of what I'm doing wrong?

Here's pieces of the code I'm using:

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  1. /* Renderer */
  2.  
  3. public void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl) {
  4.  
  5.     mRefTime = System.currentTimeMillis();     
  6.  
  7.  
  8.  
  9.     // Update the game state before rendering
  10.  
  11.     if(mLastFrameTime > 0) {
  12.  
  13.         mGameEngine.update(mLastFrameTime);
  14.  
  15.     }
  16.  
  17.  
  18.  
  19.     gl.glMatrixMode(GL10.GL_MODELVIEW);
  20.  
  21.     gl.glLoadIdentity();
  22.  
  23.                    
  24.  
  25.     for (int i = 0; i < mRenderables.length; i++) {
  26.  
  27.         mRenderables[i].draw(gl);
  28.  
  29.     }
  30.  
  31.                    
  32.  
  33.     mLastFrameTime = System.currentTimeMillis() - mRefTime;
  34.  
  35. }
  36.  
  37.  
  38.  
  39. /* Update method */
  40.  
  41. public void update(long lastFrameTimeMS) {
  42.  
  43.     int i, j;
  44.  
  45.     float moveOffset = mGameVelocity * UNIT_VELOCITY_MS * lastFrameTimeMS;
  46.  
  47.  
  48.  
  49.     for(i=0; i<ROW_COUNT; i++) {
  50.  
  51.         for(j=0; j<ROW_SIZE; j++) {
  52.  
  53.             mObj[i][j].x += moveOffset;
  54.  
  55.         }
  56.  
  57.     }
  58.  
  59. }
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Postby teo2k » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:05 pm

I solved it just by adding a Thread.sleep(10) between the update and the rendering.
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Postby _Auron_ » Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:45 am

Personally I do something roughly like the following:

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  1. public void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl) {
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  3.                 Global.time = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
  4.  
  5.  
  6.  
  7.                 // Update game objects no faster than 60fps.
  8.  
  9.                 // 1000ms / 60.0fps = 16.667ms/frame - rounded down to 16ms
  10.  
  11.                
  12.  
  13.                 if (Global.time >= (Global.oldTime + 16)) {
  14.  
  15.                         Global.deltaTime        = Global.time - Global.oldTime;
  16.  
  17.                         Global.deltaMod = (float)(1.0f / 16.0f * Global.deltaTime);
  18.  
  19.                         Global.oldTime          = Global.time;
  20.  
  21.                 }
  22.  
  23. }
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Any value that needs to get updated (rotations, x/y values, etc) I multiply by Global.deltaMod; or divide, depending.
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Postby teo2k » Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:17 pm

Thanks, I'll try that.
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