Lua - any way of tracking lua engine/physics engine ticks?

[Richard Dastardly]

Hey,

 

Had a fair bit of experience with embedded lua in a couple of different game engines, this one seems a bit different to usual. I'm looking for a way of splitting a task up over several cycles so a long-running operation doesn't stall the game engine ( or server engine in this case ) out, as I've seen apparently happen recently; usually I'd do that by building a closure with a list of functions and executing them in order in the engine's lua frame tick handler ( which is often also the game engine physics tick ), but this one doesn't seem to have an equivalent handler. Is repeatedly scheduling tasks a fraction of a sec into the future really the only way of doing this? is it possible and then safe to use coroutines?

 

Edit: after browsing some more of other people's code coroutines certainly seem usable - safe is not so easily discovered.

Edited August 31, 2019 by Richard Dastardly