Measuring time lapsed during callouts

CrazyYak · April 21, 2016

Hey there!

I'm trying to find a way to find a way to measure the time it takes for the player to make their way to the location of the callout from when they accepted it. The problem is I'm having trouble figuring out exactly how to do that. The closest variable and function I found for this task was TimeSpan where it says I can return a TimeSpan that represents a specified number on seconds or minutes but I'm not exactly sure how to use it. Am I on the right track? Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Cheers!

Stealth22 · April 21, 2016

TimeSpan ts = date2 - date1;

int responseInSeconds = ts.TotalSeconds;

Albo1125 · April 21, 2016

6 hours ago, Stealth22 said:

TimeSpan ts = date2 - date1;

int responseInSeconds = ts.TotalSeconds;

That's actually really smart, I used to just sleep a GameFiber but this is much more efficient

For the OP: just to clarify the above pseudocode a bit:

DateTime now = DateTime.Now; //when call is accepted
//Wait until the player is at the location
DateTime later = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan elapsedtime = later - now;
int responsetime = (int)Math.Round(elapsedtime.TotalSeconds);

Hope it helps

~~Deactivated Member~~ · April 21, 2016

If you end up making this, it would be cool if the user could get statistics from it. I don't know if your planning on releasing it with a callout mod or completely standalone to work with all callouts, but things like average response time, slowest and fastest response times and stuff like that would be really neat.

Sorry I can't help with what your doing, I couldn't code to save my life..

alexguirre · April 21, 2016

3 hours ago, Albo1125 said:
That's actually really smart, I used to just sleep a GameFiber but this is much more efficient

For the OP: just to clarify the above pseudocode a bit:
DateTime now = DateTime.Now; //when call is accepted
//Wait until the player is at the location
DateTime later = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan elapsedtime = later - now;
int responsetime = (int)Math.Round(elapsedtime.TotalSeconds);
Hope it helps

For time calculations I would use DateTime.UtcNow instead of DateTime.Now. Using this approach it will have better performance since it doesn't need to convert the time to the current user time zone, I would use DateTime.Now only for cases where the current time needs to be displayed to the user.(https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kirillosenkov/2012/01/10/datetime-utcnow-is-generally-preferable-to-datetime-now/)
Though probably you won't notice the performance gain unless you need to get the current time lots of times in loop.

I don't think the OP will need a better time accuracy for what he wants but in case he needs it, he can use System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch

Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
sw.Start();
//...
sw.Stop();

TimeSpan elapsedTs = sw.Elapsed;
long elapsedMs = sw.ElapsedMilliseconds;
long elapsedTicks = sw.ElapsedTicks;

Albo1125 · April 21, 2016

Just now, alexguirre said:
For time calculations I would use DateTime.UtcNow instead of DateTime.Now. Using this approach it will have better performance since it doesn't need to convert the time to the current user time zone, I would use DateTime.Now only for cases where the current time needs to be displayed to the user.(https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kirillosenkov/2012/01/10/datetime-utcnow-is-generally-preferable-to-datetime-now/)
Though probably you won't notice the performance gain unless you need to get the current time lots of times in loop.

I don't think the OP will need a better time accuracy for what he wants but in case he needs it, he can use System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch
Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
sw.Start();
//...
sw.Stop();

TimeSpan elapsedTs = sw.Elapsed;
long elapsedMs = sw.ElapsedMilliseconds;
long elapsedTicks = sw.ElapsedTicks;

There you have it!