scheduled callbacks, feature concern and proposal

vexymous

why isn't there a call scheduler for frame scheduled callbacks i.e. calling a function x amount of times in x amount of frames ? i know that this can be easily custom implemented but why isn't there an official implementation utilizing the scene tree ? i was concidring adding it my own but I'm concerned that it was proposed before and got rejected. so is there anyone who knows anything about this topic ?

kuligs2

vexymous why? why would you need such thing? give an example?

vexymous

kuligs2 give an example you say ? like for nearly everything ? custom loops ? network updates, state updates, ui updates? and everything else that requires predetermined update frequency?

kuligs2

vexymous i dont see benefit to update something according to main game loop frames.

For something that needs to run outside game loop you could use threads. You could specify how many loops to make if you really need that. I just let it rip.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/performance/using_multiple_threads.html

xyz

vexymous Use a coroutine that awaits for a timer or other type of wakeup signal. You can also use AnimationPlayer method tracks to call something periodically with arbitrary frequency, or sequence the calls in any way you need. A looped Tween can be used to the same effect.

So there are plenty of mechanisms already in existence to achieve what you ask for.

vexymous

xyz like i said, I'm aware of it's implementation, I'm just wondering why isn't implemented as a core feature utilizing the scene tree directly

xyz

vexymous Tweens as well as scene tree timers are directly managed by the SceneTree object. What exactly do you mean by "core feature" and why would you need to care how it is implemented? All of the methods I mentioned are extremely simple to use.