OnTick

Every simulation tick, with the time since the last one.

Thirty times a second ([rates] tick_hz), after the tick’s network events were applied. Whatever runs here runs for every tick of every player’s game, so keep it to a few lines; do the heavy things on a timer every second instead. The server log reports the slowest tick while the budget is missed.

Syntax

function OnTick(dt)
  -- ...
end

Parameter	Type
dt	number	seconds since the previous tick (0.033 at 30 Hz)

Returns

nothing

Example

local elapsed = 0

function OnTick(dt)
  elapsed = elapsed + dt
  if elapsed >= 1 then          -- once a second is enough for most bookkeeping
    elapsed = 0
    checkRound()
  end
end

See also

SetTimer · GetServerTick · the Server and timers group of the index