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By: MM

MM — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:24:24 +0000

Yeah client-side is the way to go. Although I thought it wouldn’t work very well because the movement of the player is based on the animations in Link-Dead not the other way around.

By: Profesh

Profesh — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:38:11 +0000

Presumably complex procedural animations can be triggered server-side but executed client-side, as with Euphoria?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:52:26 +0000

MM: Traditionally I thought you don’t synrhonize things like animations (because it won’t really matter if one player sees something slightly different).

If this isn’t the case though; can you just synchronize say, the random seed every client uses to work out what animation they’re supposed to be doing?

Or even just say ‘Im beginning animation #1 at position X, Y’ and everyone can understand how to process that animation without being constantly told ‘Im at frame 3 now’ etc.

Just a few ideas!

By: Makron666

Makron666 — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:27:58 +0000

euthoria is client side afaik.

By: Marc McMillon

Marc McMillon — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:05:04 +0000

Hmmmm, I see….

Makes me wonder how the guys who create euphoria did it.

By: MM

MM — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:27:07 +0000

Odin is the God of War and Network Packet Transmission.

What things are you having trouble synchronizing?

The movement and animations are jerky over network. The standard methods of dealing with this either lead to desynchronisation or they are not satisfactory.

By: woops

woops — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:37:47 +0000

I prefer Jesus! But I’m sure your god will work miracles for you too haha

By: Underline

Underline — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:23:29 +0000

hail odin! (2)

By: illu

illu — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:29:04 +0000

hail odin!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:12:43 +0000

What things are you having trouble synchronizing?