Events outside of fixedUpdate

Unity Engine
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I am trying to get a finger flick gesture scripted for the iphone. I realize I’m positing this in the general scripting forum, but I think it is more of a general unity question.

My issue is that I want to record the fine details of a gesture which needs to be more granular than the physics timestep. Is there a way I can record events more frequently such as intervals or events that are triggered everytime the mouse moves?

2

i’m not doing any iphone stuff. any particular reason why you can’t use Update()? otherwise a couroutine where you can increment it via WaitForSeconds?

3

woah! must be drinking… double post!

4

well, my problem with update is that it’s only called every frame, and a gesture would need more detail than the frame rate.

5

ah yes. only a couple ways i can think of.

  • lower the time step
  • a coroutine with WaitForSeconds set fairly low. still could cause a performance problem but will break it out so physics calls aren’t increased like with time step.
  • OnGUI() functions are (can be?) executed more than once per frame.

sorry - can’t think of much else and don’t know if there’s an iphone specific way that would work better.