Regarding Pixi.Ticker (deltaTime vs elapsedMS)

[ShotgunJed]

http://pixijs.download/dev/docs/PIXI.ticker.Ticker.html

 

Whats the difference between deltaTime and elapsedMS?

Delta time seems to be a "Scalar time value" but I don't know what that is. Whereas in most other game engines, delta time is often the time in milliseconds from the previous frame (which is what elapsedMS seems to be doing here).

[Taz]

You can use deltaTime to scale your animation velocities. For instance if you move your sprite 2*deltaTime pixels per frame then it will move 2 pixels per frame when you're hitting the target 60FPS frame rate, and for instance it will move 4 pixels per frame if the FPS drops to 30. Then you can also adjust app.ticker.speed to easily run all of your animations faster or slower (since deltaTime gets scaled by speed). edit - by default minFPS is 10, so deltaTime can't go above 6 (60 / 10 = 6).

[xerver]

elapsedMS is the raw time since last frame, deltaTime is an interpolated and capped version of the time since last frame.