A game with acceleration/deceleation

[zmaster]

How would I make a game where the actor accelerates to a 30 and deceleates to a speed of -6 or so and make it so he can skid?

[vrageprogrammer]

Possible.

Hust check for input(i.e, Acceleration key)

If key is down, accelartion = accelaration + 1
If key is NOT down, acceleration = acceleration -1

[darksmaster923]

Possible.

Hust check for input(i.e, Acceleration key)

If key is down, accelartion = accelaration + 1
If key is NOT down, acceleration = acceleration -1

the main problem with that is that the script commands applied everything too fast. that would make the acceleration to a complete stop.

[zany_001]

Either make the max acceleration something like 2 million, or use wait commands to make it take longer between acceleration.The second one could make it have blocky acceleration though.

[Jay]

Or use DeltaTime values:

ACC_SPEED [1] //+1 acc per sec
DELTA_TIME [0]
LAST_TIME [0]
ACCELERATION [0]

DELTA_TIME=self.time-StringCopy(LAST_TIME); //time passed by since last frame
ACCELERATION=StringCopy(ACCELERATION)+StringCopy(ACC_SPEED)*StringCopy(DELTA_TIME);
LAST_TIME=self.time;

This way you have a smoth transition which does not depend on the frame rate. You can also easily set the ACC_SPEED to other values during runtime, for example -1 to lower the speed.