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frad1582
frad1582

Reputation: 19

Is there a way to run a separate Update at a faster rate than the Application.targetFrameRate?

I am looking to poll Unity inputs over the last several frames and use that data to interpret the user's button presses. From what I've tested however, it feels like polling at the application's 60 FPS framerate leads to some very fast inputs getting missed.

Simple example, user tries to go to Forward from Down:

frame 1 - user is holding Down
frame 1.5 - user taps Forward, but hasn't released Down yet
frame 2 - user lets go of Down and has reached Forward fully

In my current set up, using unity's framerate update, frame 1.5 where the user has both Down and Forward held is missed entirely. Is there a way to run a separate update, that runs at a faster rate than the regular Unity MonoBehaviour Update function? Or would a different solution be needed, such as querying via events(iirc that's an option, but I may be misremembering)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 814

Answers (1)

Hesamom
Hesamom

Reputation: 174

I don't believe it's possible to decouple polling frequency from frame rate in legacy input system, however in new input system there is a pollingFrequency property that allows you define the frequency in Hertz. It uses a background thread to poll the data. You also need to subscribe to an input action change and record your values there to finally consume them in update method.

Upvotes: 1

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