Arketec

gotcha, thanks. Would it be possible to use coroutines to handle separate single-tick loops?

I’m having trouble trying to create a program that can control an RFTools endergenic generator. For those unfamiliar, this thing requires tick-perfect timing to work right. No matter what I try though, I cannot get a timer setup to run every game tick. As a timing test, I did the following:

local last = os.time()
event.timer(0.05, function() 
  local current = os.time()
  print(current - last)
  last = current
end, 1000)

-- output
--> 3.0
--> 3.0
--> 4.0
--> 3.0

0.05 should be a 1-tick timer, but the game ticks 3-4 times between each loop. Even if I try to reduce the interval to something lower, the game still ticks 3-4 times each loop.

Is there a way to get a consistent 1 - tick loop?