What is delta time

[Pro_gaming6683 (Spook)]

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[AustnBlox (Austin)]

Using DeltaTime

I haven’t seen anything about this, so I will make this my first tutorial. What is DeltaTime? DeltaTime is the time between events. This is extremely useful, often used to make sure frame rate makes no difference on what happens. The focus of this thread will be on DeltaTime with RunService events, wait, spawn, and delay. Why use DeltaTime? Since DeltaTime is the time in between events, this can be used with RunService events/wait when timing is important. RunService events are tied directly …

[Xitral (Guest)]

The Roblox developer API is a great resource,
Delta time is mainly used in RunService

Delta-time is a measure of the difference between frame timings.

So if you were to have a RenderStepped function your delta-time would be equal to the time between the current frame and the previous frame. This is useful for calculations that are dependent on the client’s framerate.

Hope this helps!

[Pro_gaming6683 (Spook)]

I read it but I couldn’t completely understand

[royaltoe]

deltatime means change in time. in this scenario it means how much time it took to go from the previous frame to the current frame.

[Sharksie]

Delta just means “the difference between”. So delta time would refer to the amount of time that’s passed since some event. In the context of running code on every frame, for example, delta time refers to how much time has passed since the previous frame.

[JustinIsNotWeird]

Based on my experience on using delta time on other coding languages, it’s when you have something running on the same speed no matter the framerate. (I could be wrong though.)