Hi! I hope somebody can help me understand how to make timedelays (with duration about 1-3 sec.), so as to get a figure to evolve in time. btw. I use MS Visual C++ in combination with GLUT / OpenGL... thanx!But I don't mean movement. Just kind of a figure getting bigger while you watch... like one kube exist and after 3 sec you see one more...and so on... will the same do? And how do you get frametime? [edited by - Muffinwoman on March 18, 2003 11:47:03 AM] [edited by - Muffinwoman on March 18, 2003 12:25:48 PM] [edited by - Muffinwoman on March 18, 2003 12:27:31 PM] [edited by - Muffinwoman on March 18, 2003 12:33:36 PM]

im guessing you have some kind of timing fuction for movement.
Just add a variable with the value 3 and then subtract with the frametime value and while the var is above 0 then freeze the frame.

use GetTickCount it checks the time from the system clock i think then you just check it every loop through the program and when it gets to 3000??? (i think its in mili secounds) from the original time update.

Sleep() is prolly what you're looking for.
[EDIT:] Except you wouldn't be able to "watch the figure getting bigger". You'd have to use GetTickCount() or timeGetTime() for that. You might also wanna look into the SetTimer function.

[edited by - AdmiralBinary on March 18, 2003 11:52:30 PM]

Take a look at Nehe''s tutorial 21 it goes into how to use the Performance Time to get the milliseconds from you comp. This should help...

Thanx everyone! But theese methods you mentioned... what libraries must be included to make them function?

search them on Msdn