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Everything working...and now?

Almar Joling · 2001-02-16T15:49:24

Finally I''ve got everything working fine in my multiplayer game. I''m usig cubic splines to create smooth paths for the ships. Currently an update every 75/100ms works pretty well. Now, the game isn''t been build to stop the main problem: Latency. I''ve done some experiments, and it results that lag will be visible, even if it''s 30ms. Although the path is smooth. I need to add some extra interpolation code, because there''s a minor calculation error somewhere... Anyway, I''m wondering if the best option to reduce the latency problem is "Time synchronizing". Thus, adding the latency of received packets to the packets thast the server will sent (I''m using Client-Server style) And that the receiving player will add it''s own latency to the received data. now the position should be relatively correct. Anyone can confirm that this is the best option, or are there other posibilities Almar Joling (PS: I''m using VB, DP8, not that it really matters)

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Started by Almar Joling February 09, 2001 08:15 AM

22 comments, last by Almar Joling 23 years, 4 months ago

Anonymous

February 15, 2001 09:00 PM

If you could truncate those long lines(by editing your post), it would be nice Almar. I''ll check out your demo in more depth tomorrow.

Good Luck

-ddn

Almar Joling

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February 16, 2001 05:29 AM

Better so?, I thought It''s all without scrollbars now (atleast,
on 1024x768 it is)

Almar

fprefect

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February 16, 2001 02:10 PM

The only cause of those errors that I can think of would be the
division here: CubicSplineReturn(DeltaTime / TimeBetweenPackets)

If those values are integers, then the result will always be
zero (since DT < TBP). Try casting both values to floats (or
reals) and see if that fixes the problem.

Edited by - fprefect on February 16, 2001 3:11:10 PM

Matt Slot / Bitwise Operator / Ambrosia Software, Inc.

Almar Joling

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February 16, 2001 03:49 PM

It''s a single. I''ve checked the calculations and they are like: "0,01","0,2", etc. so that should be allright...
I think I''m going to mess with the code tommorow. It''s probably some strange mistake (I think)

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