Refire rate problems.

Hi. First off, nice game creation tool that I may plan to use somewhere in the future.

Second, I use a video capture program known as Fraps.

My sample application involves a squiggly thing shooting green balls every around half second.

Now when I go into record mode and purposely slow down my FPS down to 30 from 60, I noticed that the green ball's speed stayed the same but the refiring rate didn't.

The squiggly lines like sprite has a private variable that counts down to 0 and resets after shooting the green ball.

Is there such thing as a GameTime or elapsed variable that I can just apply(such as variable += value*elapsed in a different language) to the count down variable or have the bullet speed not sync with the game time(which would very useful for implementing the replay feature)?

edit: sorry I had to move the topic to more of an appropiate section.

The reason is probably timedelta based, if you had something like this:

if Variable is less or equal to 0 - Shoot ball

- set variable to 100

always - subtract 100 * timedelta

that would make it shoot once per second regardless of fps

Although i know how timedelta works, i can't explain it well, your best bet is to look up the timedelta article on the construct wiki

Your game is not framerate independent. In other words, when the framerate changes, the way the game behaves changes. This is not good! If a player was playing on a slow computer you don't want the game to change for them as well.

As Arcticus said, read about TimeDelta. If you say 'Always - subtract 1 from value', the value is subtracted once every tick, which is different speeds depending on the framerate.