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network game loop

Zenroth · 1999-10-24T21:04:00

What is the best way to generaly structure the game loop for a peer to peer type action game with up to about 8 players. it well be realtime to. I mean is it best to have the logic loop run on all machines at a constant 40fps per second no matter what and the graphics run as fast as they can(faster machine get smoother graphics,slower get choppy ect,but all the input ect isnt effected by this.)Or do i need to cap framerates and such?

Networking and Multiplayer Programming

Started by Zenroth October 24, 1999 09:04 PM

9 comments, last by Zenroth 24 years, 8 months ago

Splat

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October 24, 1999 09:04 PM

Exactly. Dead reckoning works perfectly fine for a whole hell of a lot of situations. You also might add a LITTLE physics code, because the following would be really funny:

Guy is heading towards edge of cliff. You now stop receiving packets from the server. Now, if you JUST use dead reckoning, this guy keeps running and running on thin air hehe If you also do calculations for gravity, then he falls to his doom just like you'd expect.

Zenroth: I imagine finding good source code to a network/prediction part of a game would be REAL hard to come by. This is the kind of thing that is generally too complex and specific to a given game to be real helpful.

- Splat