Scripted Timevar3

[Tigairius]

It's not great, and not 100 percent accurate (sometimes off by a few miliseconds or a second), but I've found it to be more informative than using timevar. The only real problem is it depends a lot on your computer's clock speed, so some measures might be slightly off, but if anything at least you can use it to get serverside timevar2 clientside.

Feel free to rip it apart and try to make it work better.

Just put this in a weapon:

PHP Code:

function onCreated() {
  for (temp.pl: allplayers) {
    if (pl.level.name != NULL) {
      pl.addWeapon(this);
      pl.triggerclient("gui", name, "timevar", timevar2);
    }
  }
}

function onPlayerLogin(pl) {
  pl.addWeapon(this);
  pl.triggerclient("gui", name, "timevar", timevar2);
}

function onPlayerLogout(pl) {
  if (pl.level.name != NULL) {
    pl.client.starttime = NULL;
  }
}

function onInitialized() {
  this.trigger("Created", NULL);
}

function onActionServerside() {
  switch (params[0]) {
    case "timecheck":
      echo("It took" SPC abs(timevar2 - params[1]) SPC "secs to reach serverside.");
    break;
  }
}
 
//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {
  time = this;
  if (client.starttime == NULL)
    client.starttime = timevar2;
}

function onActionClientside() {
  switch (params[0]) {
    case "timevar":
      this.utime = params[1] + (timevar2 - client.starttime);
    break;
  }
}

public function getTimevar3() {
  return (timevar2 - client.starttime) + this.utime + 1;
}

function onPlayerChats() {
  if (player.chat == "gettime") {
    triggerserver("gui", name, "timecheck", getTimevar3());
    player.chat = getTimevar3();
  }
} 


To get the current time clientside, just call 'time.getTimevar3()'.

Note: It'll un-sync if you update the weapon, so reconnect after you update it/add it.

[cbk1994]

Worked really nice from what I saw, and was extremely accurate. I will very likely be using this in the future.

[fowlplay4]

I have pretty much the same thing on Zodiac but for some reason if you resize the client it causes it to mess up.

Ex: Go on Zodiac and cast a spell to get a cooldown then resize your window, it'll clear the cooldowns sometimes or extend the time then fix itself after a sec or so. I had to make it so it disabled your ability to cast for a few seconds so people couldn't abuse it.

[napo_p2p]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

I have pretty much the same thing on Zodiac but for some reason if you resize the client it causes it to mess up.

Window resizing may be halting the execution of scripts (similar to what happens when you push escape on Windows).

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by napo_p2p

Window resizing may be halting the execution of scripts (similar to what happens when you push escape on Windows).

Which is also responsible for another glitch on Zodiac! Curse those bugs that should be fixed by client updates.

[ffcmike]

I find this method to be quite accurate:

PHP Code:

//place within a 0.05 second timeout
function handleTimeVar(){
  if(this.time != timevar){
    this.time = timevar;
    this.tv2 = this.time * 5;
    this.timechange = timevar2;
  }
}

public function getTimevar3(){
  return 981048814 + this.tv2 + timevar2 - this.timechange;
} 


When I trigger to the server to compare the difference it's always about 0.25 seconds behind serverside timevar2, which would include the delay caused by latency.