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{{#Invoke:ProtoFlux|GenerateUI
|Name=dT
|Category=Time
|Outputs=
[
{"Name":"*", "Type":"float"}
]
|}}

The <code>Delta Time</code> node returns the change of time between two world updates, specifically the time between the current update and the one before.

{{Note|There is an alternative node called [[ProtoFlux:Smooth Delta Time|Smooth Delta Time]] that tries to smooth out this result when getting lag or frame stutters.|suggestion}}

This [https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-deltaTime.html Unity Documentation about Delta Time] may be relevant in helping understand what this does. And following that, this has an excellent explanation about [https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/TimeFrameManagement.html Time Frame Management], which in general may help with working with this node in your content.

=== Uses ===
Using this node, you can make an accumulator or a timer using the frames here and storing them to a variable and adding them every frame.

== Outputs ==

=== * ([[Type:float|float]]) ===

The difference in time between this frame and the last frame.

[[Category:ProtoFlux:Time]]
[[Category:ContinuouslyChanging nodes]]