Accessing the steps counter in an agent function

[isolin]

I would like to process the tick in my agent's function. According to the docs this should be possible through CUDASimulation.getStepCounter() but I hav eno idea how to access it from a FLAMEGPU_AGENT_FUNCTION. Of course the following fails:

FLAMEGPU_AGENT_FUNCTION(agent_update, flamegpu::MessageNone, flamegpu::MessageBruteForce) {
    //...
    const unsigned int timestep = FLAMEGPU->CUDASimulation.getStepCounter();
    //...
}

So how can I get the simulation timestep other than storing and incrementing it explicitly in the agent as one of its variables (that would be a serious overhead as the single value would unnecessarily replicate throughout the whole population)?

[Robadob]

I think the method you are looking for is FLAMEGPU->getStepCounter();

FLAMEGPU2/include/flamegpu/runtime/DeviceAPI.cuh

Line 99 in cf64fd9

__forceinline__ __device__ unsigned int getStepCounter() const {

You should be able to access it the same in both Host and Device APIs.