Re: [Torcs-devel] Network play again...

[donnar <do...@ge...>]

Hi Brian,

thanks a lot for the reply. I was already quite sure that something like=20
'croquet' cannot be used for games like TORCS, namely because of the high=20
latency of croquet (or other distributed p2p frameworks).

Anyway, I would be interested in the functional specification a network=20
functionality to be used in a future release of TORCS:

*How many bytes have to be send between the players and the server ?=20
*How many bytes have to be send between the players only ?
*What is the maximum timeframe ?=20

I would be glad if you (or somebody else) could answer my question...

Regards,
Donnar

Am Freitag, 23. M=E4rz 2007 00:27 schrieben Sie:
> Hi Donnar,
> Sorry to take so long.  Don't worry about offending
> anybody.  There is more then one correct way to solve
> a programming problem, and my way isn't the only way
> either.
>
> I don't think Croquet would fit with TORCS.  TORCS
> really just needs a simple UDP base network library.
> I would guess the largest game would involve about 10
> players.    Alot of the network libraries are made for
> World of Warcraft type games with huge numbers of
> players, but do not require fast responses to things
> such as collisions or spinouts.  Different kinds of
> games need different types of libraries.
>
> sdl_net is a logical choice for TORCS because it works
> on well on MacOS,Linux, and Windows platforms.  It
> has been used by a lot of games doesn't have been bugs
> because of this.  The first version of TORCS
> supporting network play probably won't a Game lobby or
> a chat window unless you add it of course :)  The user
> would probably use a IRC/chat program to find out the
> IP address and then would just hand type in the IP
> address to connect to the server.
>
> I would suggest you take a look at library such as
> raknet (http://www.rakkarsoft.com).  It is what I am
> currently using and is a good way to learn a little
> about network protocols for games.  Unfortunately the
> license isn't GPL friendly so I plan on replacing it
> with sdl_net once I get the code working.
>
> If you are interested I could send you a zip file of
> my code, but it is still pretty rough and only works
> on Windows MSVC right now.
>
> Brian