Feedback Feature Request: Time.FixedUpdateCount or something similar

Currently we have access to a Time.FrameCount to get the total number of frames that have passed. It would be nice to have a similar Time.FixedCount or Time.PhysicsCount or something that would give you the number of fixed updates or physics steps that have passed. This would be very useful for creating self-updating properties on an object that get blindly gotten from anywhere. Something like:

Code (CSharp):

1. private int frictionUpdated;
2. private Vector2 friction;
3. public Vector2 Friction   //<== used blindly in many external places
4. {
5.   get
6.   {
7.     if (frictionUpdated == Time.fixedCount) friction;
8.     frictionUpdated = Time.fixedCount;
9.     return friction = /*some long calculations*/
10.   }
11. }

You can do this kind of buffering with Time.frameCount, but not physics.

Currently I am stuck lazy-buffering things in a more laborious way. It would be nice to simplify some of it with this easily-added feature.

 

The hardest part of this feature would be the name, so if anyone has suggestions, that would be nice.

 

If given a steady fixed delta time, couldn't you derive it from something like (timeSinceStartUp * fixedDeltaTime)?

But yeah sure, if they can add it why not.
shouldn't be too hard to name, .FrameCount and .PhysicsFrameCount or .FixedFrameCount .

 

Fair enough. If normal updates are counted I don't see a reason not to count FixedUpdates as well.

 

Would be useful, I have simulated it by setting execution order on my special component and than count the FixedUpdate by myself. But it gives this "hackish" feeling.