Camera stuttering/lag

[Taurus 20]

"bopp.sqf"

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_c = "camera" camCreate [(getPos player select 0),(getPos player select 1),(getPos player select 2)+20];

_c cameraEffect ["external","back"];

_c camSetTarget someGuy;

_c camSetFov 0.7;

_c camCommit 0;

sleep 60;

started by

nil = [] execVM "bopp.sqf";

It laggs/stutters and makes me sick.

Same goes for following an aircraft like

"boppEnhanced.sqf";

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_unit = airCraft;

_c = "camera" camCreate getPos _unit;

_c cameraEffect ["external","back"];

_c camSetTarget _unit;

_c camSetFov 0.7;

_c camCommit 0;

while{(getDammage _unit) < 0.6} do{

_c camSetRelPos [0, -20,11.5];

_c camCommit 0;

sleep 0.00001;

};

Removing the sleep doesn't do the trick either.

This script is too exec:d by execVM.

And as the previous one it makes me sick, even sicker when watching, because of the lagg/stuttering

Please advice.

[Balschoiw 0]

Have you already tried preloading the camera ?

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_camera camPrepareTarget someGuy;

_camera camPreparePos [(getPos player select 0),(getPos player select 1),(getPos player select 2)+20]

_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700

_camera camPreload 15

[Taurus 20]

Thanks for the answer.

Nope I didn't.

But I've tried it and it didn't solve my problem

Still stutters/laggs.

May it be that I'm using .sqf and not .sqs which is said to be "faster" than .sqf?

[Kirby 2]

Maybe your PC is a lil slow. Maybe someone else try it out and see if it stutters on their PC.

[Taurus 20]

buts my computar r teh monstr!!

Maybe it isn't.

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.21 GHz

2 GB RAM

GeForce 7950 GT

Anyways, its the thing I posted last here:

http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....t=62971

Feel free to try it out.

Thanks in advance

[Balschoiw 0]

Without looking at your file, have you already tried to call the scripts the "regular" way by using exec only ? execVM runs asynchron to engine timer, maybe that´s why.

[Taurus 20]

Eh, that broke my script.

its got waitUntils and sleep in there and that wasn't liked at all when using exec instead of execVM.

I'll try with a good old spawn.

[edit]

Nah, didn't work either.

Still stuttering like when I'm running the game in x4 time compression.

[edit2]

Think I got hold of the problem

Doing

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">waitUntil{

_c camSetRelPos [0, -20,11.5];

_c camCommit 0;

((getDammage _unit) > 0.6)

};

Instead of

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">while{(getDammage _unit) < 0.6} do{

_c camSetRelPos [0, -20,11.5];

_c camCommit 0;

};

Worked more smoothly

Apparently waitUntil is "faster" than while.

you learn something new each day.

Its unfortunate that if(someThing) exitWith{} doesn't seem to work whilst in a waitUntil tho