This is my submission for the #cookbook_jam and me finally being able to contribute to the community in some small way! It's a video tutorial that covers the basics of using the iota library by Juju Adams.
#How to unlock your framerate in under 10 mins!
shy granite
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cerulean sedge
Excellent tutorial for beginners, and may I say quite a pretty video too.
shy granite
Thank you so much!! 😊
shy granite
❤️ Thank you!
Yes - I've already been able to link it once! haha
plucky nova
A quick tip to mention in a potential future video: time dilation is great for debugging.
Seeing your character switch states in slo mo helps clean up state transitions and such, and make sure smaller things are looking right.
Without it you have to record the gameplay and look frame by frame.
cerulean sedge
also by far the easiest way to implement slow mo mechanics
cerulean sedge
twice now i've worked on a project they wanted slow motion and i just implement iota to the root of the games clock
plucky nova
With that said I still have a love/hate relationship with iota. The library is great, but having to uproot how GM works is a major pain. Especially when it comes to particles and physics. Can't interpolate those. So the hate part is more on the GM side, really. iota does what it can, and it does it well.
Russell did say he's a fan of the concept and would like to include it in GMRT at some point...
shy granite
A quick tip to mention in a potential future video: time dilation is great for d...
Agreed! I skipped over the time dialation (only mentioning it briefly at the end) because I wanted to keep this video under 10 mins - so confined it to just setting this up. But I might make a follow up video in the future that goes into this!
cerulean sedge
Ya know... come to think of it, I bet one could make a macro to inject into any step event which just defines the event into iota if it doesnt exist, checks the callstack to see if its being called from iota, and if not exits early. a one macro solution to implement iota would be crazy
cerulean sedge
Agreed! I skipped over the time dialation (only mentioning it briefly at the end...
That would be sick
shy granite
Russell did say he's a fan of the concept and would like to include it in GMRT a...
This would be amazing. In theory it could be just an option that you could modify in-engine, and all the built-in systems would adhere to it
atomic geyser
i've played around with some macro magic in the past but couldn't get it to feel solid
plucky nova
This would be amazing. In theory it could be just an option that you could modif...
That's what I'm hoping for.
cerulean sedge
i've played around with some macro magic in the past but couldn't get it to feel...
if you didn't need interpolation it would be pretty straight forward. though.... maybe with some method trickery...
i might look into that some time, sounds like a fun thought experiment
tidal monolith
if you dont mind choppy particles you can always update the systems manually, or have them move smoothly at their slowest and update several times per regular step (although its a bit excessive). The other thing that is locked with CMs clock is using paths to move instances around, but you can use PathPlus to go step by step on paths too (and Im sure there are many other methods as well).
rapid abyss
With that said I still have a love/hate relationship with iota. The library is g...
Wouldn't GML Instantiable Constructors fill your needs? I did not test Box2D physics with it (if that is what you mean), but I did manage to get particle speed scaling working properly.