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I have this health regeneration script, and that works fine. Except one problem where if I do something like jump health regenerates faster than it's suppose to. Here's the script:

var healthRegenRate : float = 1;
var hitPoints = 100;

function Update(){
Death();
audio.clip = Heartbeat;

DamagedTexture.active=false;
//hitPoints = Mathf.Clamp(hitPoints + (healthRegenRate * Time.deltaTime), 0, 100);

hitPoints += healthRegenRate * Time.deltaTime;

if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire2")){
    hitPoints -= 10;
}
if (hitPoints > 100){
    hitPoints = 100;
}
if (hitPoints <= 15){
   DamagedTexture.active = true;   
   if (!audio.isPlaying){
       audio.Play();
    } 
}
if (hitPoints >= 16){
   DamagedTexture.active = false; 
   if (audio.isPlaying){
       audio.Pause();
    }   
}
}

I think it has something to do with the Time.deltaTime, but I'm not to sure.

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First try changing Time.deltaTime to Time.smoothDeltaTime. This'll smooth it out so that if your framerate takes a big hit (due to jumping, moving around, or other things that'd cause a lot of rendering).

If that doesn't work, try doing this in FixedUpdate() instead of Update(). FixedUpdate happens at a fixed rate, which seems to be more of what you want. With Update, if you have lots of Draw calls, this is going to slow it down, causing the time to be inconsistent. Additionally, change Time.deltaTime to Time.fixedDeltaTime so that it will be responding to the appropriate signal.

answered Jul 19 '12 at 07:37 PM

tmiller_vb
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Hopefully that works, but I can't tell because now my problem is that it regenerates too fast. And it only regenrates when I set HealthRegenRate to 50, and that's too fast.

function FixedUpdate(){
hitPoints += healthRegenRate *  Time.fixedDeltaTime; 
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)){
    hitPoints -= 5;
    Debug.Log("HealthDown!");
}
if (hitPoints > 100){
    hitPoints = 100;
}
}

Jul 20 '12 at 02:33 AM chrisall76

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