Doing something in every frame

#1 You are absolutely right. The ITickObject interface would be a fine way to do this. Here's an example class.

class MyClass, ITickObject
{
        public void InterpolateTick(float k)
        {
        }

        public void ProcessTick(Move move, float dt)
        {
           //insert stuff to do
        }
}

For more information about these functions see this thread.

EDIT: Wait I almost forgot. In the constructor you will need to add this:

ProcessList.Instance.AddTickCallback(this, this);

Now these should be fired every engine tick.

#2 I managed to do it late last night but your post was quite reassuring. Thanks a lot.

#3 Are you *sure* that ProcessTick() gets called every frame? I suspect that it doesn't, for the following reason:

Without using Link Points (I'm still working on that), I have a MovementObject (based off of the starter game sample) which implements the ITickObject interface. In every ProcessTick() call, I set the CenterPosition of the T2DSceneCamera to the player position. But when I move the player around (in my case, a space ship), I see a noticeable "jitter" as though the camera position isn't being updated every frame. I can exaggerate this jitter by purposefully not updating the camera position every frame. The jitter goes away as soon as I stop changing the camera's position.

I'm trying to find a reliable way to have the camera update on *every* frame.

#4 ProcessTick does not get called on every frame. InterpolateTick should be called on every frame. Otherwise you can use UpdateAnimation which is also called every frame.

#5 Thank you for the clarification, Ben!

#6 Also, you probably want to wait until _OnRegister (or _InitComponent, depending on what version you're using) to add the object to the process list, rather than doing it in the constructor.