How to get a dynamic delta time from server -> client?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By wombatTurkey
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Man, I am so close on getting this movement down! Someone helped me fix a small issue I had here.

But now, the jitter is back but it can be removed by interpolation. I know that, but am horrible at Math and trying to figure out how to get a dynamic delta.

Code:

var _velocity = Vector2(0,0)
var SPEED = 1000
func _process(delta):
	if new_pos.x:
		var my_pos = get_pos()
		var vector = new_pos - my_pos
		var length = floor(vector.length())
		var direction = vector.normalized()
		if length < 2: #2px, experiment with this value
			if length < 0.5:
				_velocity = Vector2(0,0) # full stop.
			else:
				_velocity = vector * SPEED * delta # sloooooowly
		else:
			_velocity = vector * SPEED * delta
		
		
func _integrate_forces(state):
	# if the path has more than one point
	if new_pos.x:
		state.set_linear_velocity(_velocity)

And, if server is sending positional updates to new_pos 15 times a second, I get:

Which is de

So, what I am doing is basically sending a Vector2 of x, and y positions to my server and relaying it back to the other player at 15 times per second. (new_pos) is getting its value updated from data received from the server.

Now, my question is to remove the jitter I can either do 60 times per second interval (which would rape my servers), or simply interpolate the time difference between packets and create a dynamic delta. I’m just not sure how to do that.

I used OS.get_ticks_msec() when I send the msg to the server and put it in a variable called last_message_sent, and I did the same for when I receive a message from the server. That variable is called last_message_received.

I am so close, but am kind of stuck on how to get delta’s value to be dynamic so the jitter is interpolated, any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!!