[ bzflag-Patches-847045 ] World Weapons Timing (Part II)

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Patches item #847045, was opened at 2003-11-21 22:20
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Dave Rodgers (trepan)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: World Weapons Timing (Part II)

Initial Comment:

I tried the modified world weapons code that scaled
the waitTime by 0.1 if someone was connected, and
there are two problems.

1. Because the shots might queue faster then we are
    updating when there are no players, the timing
    relative to two different weapons can get screwed
    up. I put in a do/while loop to eat up shots that
    should have fired.

2. When you haven't actually joined the game, the 
    shot patterns don't work (look stupid). For this,
    I wrote the WorldWeapons::nextShotTime() routine
    to contribute to waitTime like the rest of the
    dependents.

When I put the do/while loop in, I also realized that
I had to make sure that the delays actually contribute
to w->nextTime or there'd be an infinite loop, so I
check the delays against 0.1f in CustomWorld.cxx.

Once I realized you could have a 'delay' parameter
with no valid delays, I added the one-shot functionality
in WorldWeapons.cxx. WIthout any valid delays, the
weapon only fires once, at initdelay.

I'm also attaching an example map of the kind a
synchronized weapons timing that I'm trying to achieve.
It's an extreme example, but useful for testing.

Later,
trepan.

P.S.  I also added a no-spoof-server-name patch in here.


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