Display FPS while testing level

[krisgoku8]

I'm not able to show fps while testing the level. The fps will show will the game is not running and even if i run a test the frames will say two in the other window. I know that's not correct. SO how do i show frame rate while testing the game?

[Anonymous]

Hello,
it is actually rather simple. 
First you gotta create a new gui(if you have not already) using:

gui = World.create_screen_gui(world,'immediate')

then you can calculate the fps by using the delta time between frames in your update loop ususally denoted as "dt". All you gotta do is divide1 by that number in order to get the frames per second.After that it is just a matter of adding the result to the GUI.
It would look something like this

function update(dt) 

     Gui.text(gui, tostring(1/dt), font, font_size, font_material, Vector3(x, y, z))

...

end

(more information on the specific functions in the doc of course)

I hope this answered your question,
Cheers!

[_robbs_]

Another way to do it is to send a perfhud console command to the game from the status bar.

1. Start testing the game with the green triangle button.
2. While it's running, go to the status bar in the Stingray Editor.
3. Make sure the drop-down on the left is set to Command. In the engine drop-down, select Test Engine. This will make the status bar send commands to the test engine.
4. In the text field, type
   perfhud fps

You should now see the FPS showing in the game window. Note that in the Test Engine the FPS is capped at 60, but you can do the same thing with Run Project as well.

[paulkind]

One last way is to use the FPS counter in ShadowPlay (in Nvidea GeForce Experience Panel) allows you to display fps on any running 3d window.  I generally leave this enabled as i basically always want to know what my fps is,

Paul