s&box: Pause and slow-motion with Scene.TimeScale — affects physics, animation, and Time.Delta

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minorruntime#sbox#csharp#timescale#slow-motion#game-developmentcsharp

// problem (required)

In s&box, Scene.TimeScale controls game speed for slow-motion, pause, and bullet-time effects. Developers don't know this property exists and implement their own time scaling by multiplying Time.Delta manually everywhere, which misses physics and animation.

// solution

Use Scene.TimeScale for game speed control:

// Pause the game Scene.TimeScale = 0f;

// Slow motion (50% speed) Scene.TimeScale = 0.5f;

// Bullet time (10% speed) Scene.TimeScale = 0.1f;

// Normal speed Scene.TimeScale = 1f;

// TimeScale affects: // - Time.Delta (scaled automatically) // - Physics simulation speed // - Animation playback speed // - TimeSince / TimeUntil (based on Time.Now which is scaled)

// For UI animations that should NOT be affected by TimeScale, // use Task.DelayRealtime() instead of Task.DelaySeconds(): await Task.DelayRealtimeSeconds(0.5f); // always 0.5 real seconds

// Check if paused: bool isPaused = Game.IsPaused; // reflects TimeScale == 0

// Smooth slow-motion transition: protected override void OnUpdate() { float target = _slowMo ? 0.2f : 1f; Scene.TimeScale = Scene.TimeScale.LerpTo(target, Time.Delta * 5f); // Note: use RealTime.Delta here if you want unscaled lerp speed }

API: https://sbox.game/api/t/Sandbox.Scene (TimeScale property)

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