Is there a built in frame counter?

[Blind]

I know it's easy to make one, I just don't know if there's a built in one.

[maras]

There is no build in counter because every step is one frame so all you need to do is frame += 1; and you have a frame counter

[Blind]

引用自 marasovec：

There is no build in counter because every step is one frame so all you need to do is frame += 1; and you have a frame counter

True; but I'm trying to use as many built-ins as possible for a mini-challenge

[maras]

Sounds fun

[RandomDude]

Is the function "fps" no good or did I misunderstand what you're after?

[The Winter Bud]

The manual states:

In GameMaker: Studio there are two main ways that can be used to tell the speed at which your game runs. The room_speed (as specified in the room editor) and the fps (frames per second). These values are often confused, but basically one is the number of game steps that GameMaker: Studio is supposed to be completing in a second (room speed), while the other is the number of CPU steps that GameMaker: Studio is actually completing in a second (the real fps), and this value is generally much higher than the room speed, but will drop as your game gets more complex and uses more processing power to maintain the set room speed.

[Blind]

I meant an actual frame counter, like "your game has been running for 29783872894678978 frames" (although I would probably convert that to a looping short anyways)

[The Winter Bud]

get_timer()[docs.yoyogames.com]

This function returns the time that your game has been running on the chosen platform in microseconds (there are 1 million microseconds per second).

It's not a frame counter, but with a little math it could be

[Blind]

actually, that works even better than a frame counter for my purposes

[The Winter Bud]

I use it occasionally. Sometimes I like to keep track of how long players are playing the game before they quit or give up. I sometime use it to track when a player dies too. Helps with game flow, timers, clocks, etc.. Bit clunckier than using current_time and other date/time functions due to it's limited start space (at the launch of app)

[Blind]

引用自 The Winter Bud：

I use it occasionally. Sometimes I like to keep track of how long players are playing the game before they quit or give up. I sometime use it to track when a player dies too. Helps with game flow, timers, clocks, etc.. Bit clunckier than using current_time and other date/time functions due to it's limited start space (at the launch of app)

I mostly would use it as a modulo counter to see if certain events should happen. For example, FrameCounter mod 256