Movieclip supports frameskip?

speeder_kidoteca

I made almost all animations of my animation-heavy game using movieclip (plainly because the movieclip API made lots of sense in relation to our gameplay).

But I was testing on my personal phone (instead of the iPad) and the game is not running at 60 FPS (my guess is that it is running at 25, my phone only vsyncs at 25 or 50, and seemly Gideros performance is not that good...) and the animations are looking very bad, specially because long animations are taking a VEEERY long time to the point of being boring.

Is this fixable without dumping Movieclip entirely?

ar2rsawseen

There is no easy way to change the speed of MovieClip, but you can check out TNT Animator Studio:
http://www.tntparticlesengine.com/?page_id=31
Which would allow you to set the speed of animation

speeder_kidoteca

That would mean changing the whole API calls no? (ie: redoing all my animation-related code)

speeder_kidoteca

Can @atilim check if he can at least add a frame-skip system to movieclip? (ie: in case the game is updating slower than it should, start dropping frames... it is not a fine control like time-based animation that Corona supports, but I think that is quick and easy to code fast...)

ar2rsawseen

ok, will relay the message

SinisterSoft

@speeder_kidoteca All you do is divide the amount of frames to take by 2 and you will run twice as fast or the same speed over 30fps than 60fps.

speeder_kidoteca

@SinisterSoft

The problem is device being slow, the game is set to run at 60.

If I do what you suggest, the game animations will run absurdly fast on fast devices instead.