...Eureka! Potential tic length discovery.

[ShadowTiger]

While fiddling around with the intro to... a personal project of mine, I think I figured out the actual length of a tic. There's some math involved, which I hate, so bear with me now.

Alright. The second screen of my quest, is a screen with those 3 rotating Triforces (ripped by Sludge.) with the Z3 Flute Boy's song playing in the background. That song's length, is 43 "Midi Tics." .. call them whatever you want.

So that plays for about 750 tics, and Insta-warps (Via the timed side warp feature, as you all well know.) to a screen playing something else. Doesn't matter what.

So apparently, I have found the actual time that 750 tics is. Judging from the length of the midi, that it was 43 tics long, and the screen was 750 tics, and it warped AT THE END OF THE SONG, ... however long that midi was in seconds, that's how long 750 tics is/are.

Of course, that's if you don't skip ahead by pressing v.

[Dart Zaidyer]

I'm pretty sure one second is equal to 120 tics. It was mentioned at the dawn of beta 182, I think.

[*b*]

I thought DN said it was 60 tics = 1 second

[ShadowTiger]

Maybe I'll upload a demo of my quest, and you can see what I've done. :p That should prove it.

[DarkFlameWolf]

Conspiracy! o.O

[Praethus]

Actually, the speed of tics varies slightly from computer to computer. I believe 1 tic = 1 frame of animation. On average, ZC runs at about 60 fps I believe. This would imply that 60 tics = 1 sec. Again, I think the fps rate varies slightly from system to system, so it is not an exactly science. The length of a tic depends on your system.

[Freedom]

I believe the Hrz is also a factor.

[Cloral]

Hz = frequency. :p

[jman2050]

I'm more concerned with the fact that the tic counter continues to move while in the subscreen... trust me, I've tested it. Don't know if it's a bug or not, but it's really annoying in places where I need to switch weapons constantly (Petoe's quest comes to mind -_- )

[Petoe]

Originally posted by jman2050
I'm more concerned with the fact that the tic counter continues to move while in the subscreen... trust me, I've tested it. Don't know if it's a bug or not, but it's really annoying in places where I need to switch weapons constantly (Petoe's quest comes to mind -_- )

I just realized that myself too! The time is running out and when you have to stop to change your weapon and the time's still running... BOOM!!!
That's unfair...