RTS Type Game

[Chavo]

If you are going to have a multiplayer game over the internet, you virtually must have a way of syncing data.  In general (or at least to my knowledge) this is done by making one person the host of the game and having them sound out periodic sync requests and sync data to ensure all players have the same values for their client.  Otherwise things like memory hacks, our cummulative delay could have an impact on the game.

If you implemented this, it would be relatively easy for the host to create the necessary AI player clients on his machine at game startup.  With an abstraction layer, it would still be easy to handle the syncing without any of the clients complaining.

[Warrior]

Okay I'll look into this some more, I'll admit I need to research more in this area on how others have done it.
I also realized to have a decent reliable chat network I'll need to write my own TCP library or add onto RakNet.

Thanks.

[MyndFyre]

IIRC Starcraft does this by having the host run the computer players.  UDP packets are sent by the computers to the other players just as if the computers were simply other players coming from the same host.

[Warrior]

That's what I thought, either that or each player had a cpu running.

Heres how I plan it out:

Master server will have a list of registered servers with it, here is how games are created and they are removed from the list once they are started.

Everything else in game will be UDP except for how will I handle stats reporting back to the game? I'm thinking have every specific client send the server it's end game stats via TCP? Or maybe not even log stats at all?

*shrug*

[rabbit]

*cough*
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/19/1434223&from=rss

[Warrior]

I wouldn't want to (and would feel really bad) about selling a game based off someone elses libraries.

[rabbit]

Not necessarilly selling, but marketing: how to get people to at least download and try it.

[Warrior]

Alright I'll have a look at it later

[Joe]

Downloading VB Express and VC Express. I may join when I learn more VC.

[wires]

Never knew VC was a language.  I can send you VC6 again if you want. XD

[MyndFyre]

Never knew VC was a language.  I can send you VC6 again if you want. XD

VC2005 pwns VC6.  :P

[Warrior]

A small update: I really disliked Ogre more and more over time so I decided to write my own Game Engine. This might put the game on halt for a while but it will be more educational in the end. Currently the engine I'm working on is in pure C# using Managed DirectX and the RTS will end up being Managed as well.

All I can say is, damn Managed DirectX is elite.

I'm licensing the engine under the LGPL license and the game will be probably end up being GPL.

I'm still looking for all the help possible on the C# Engine though, I have the design pretty much laid out and I've started implementing it. Stay tuned for primitive screenshots!

[Warrior]

Update!

Wrote a lot of the engine logic today. I wrote a SceneManager (Much like Irrlicht) which accepts multiple Scene Nodes which can be anything. Basically the whole scene is a hierarchy of Scene Nodes with one Root node.

Currently I allow you to set anything as the root node but for fun I prewrote a "World Node" which inherits SceneNode and allows for things like creating SkyBoxes/Domes/Planes and will allow for other things later.

Tomorrow I plan to finish testing out my MeshNode and see if I can abstract it to allow loading of atleast .x and .3ds .

[Warrior]

Fixed Windowed Mode rendering and finished up the SceneNode/SceneManager completely.

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using Ravage3D;

namespace Ravage3DTest
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        Ravage3D.Device GameDevice = null;

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            GameDevice = new Ravage3D.Device();
            GameDevice.InitDevice(this.Handle, true);
        }

        protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
        {
            GameDevice.BeginRendering();
                // Add code here kthx
            GameDevice.EndRendering();

            base.OnPaint(e);
        }
    }
}

I still have to implement some more things before I can show something useful but I'll try to get atleast primitives to be drawn by Node to show that off.

[Warrior]

Update!

This isn't really an engine fix more like me doing something wrong in Ravage3DTest

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using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Threading;

using Ravage3D;

namespace Ravage3DTest
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        Ravage3D.Device GameDevice = null;

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        public void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            GameDevice = new Ravage3D.Device();
            GameDevice.InitDevice(this.pictureBox1.Handle, true);
            Thread t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(this.Render));
            t.Start();
        }

        public void Render()
        {
            while (true)
            {
                GameDevice.BeginRendering();
                GameDevice.EndRendering();
            }
         }
    }
}


Using the above code you can render to any .NET control!