Re: [Arianne-general] need some advice

[Mihael K. <mih...@fr...>]

thanx so far for your quick responses. i'll take a look at it.

good night.

mihael knezevic

Am Montag, 18. April 2005 22:58 schrieb Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin:
> > > I liked it too on the past. But developing both 2D and 3D client is
> > > VERY hard and VERY time consuming. I would choose one and move.
> >
> >i'm new to arianne but not necessarily know to software developement. and
> >making a 2d AND 3d client would be equal to suicide =)
>
> ok, just to make sure you know. :)
>
> >no. i don't even want to write a server on my own cause it would consume
> > to many resources. i would like to actually see my game played sometime.
> > i would
> >start with 2d. but if someone is interested in 3d it would be great to
> > have a
> >2d and 3d client in one game. it probably won't be the case anyway.
>
> You don't need to write a server. Marauroa will handle all the ugly stuff
> for you.
>
> > > Marauroa is the game server, it just deliver content.
> > > What can make marauroa run slow?
> > > a) many clients ( 30 clients is not a problem, 200 is )
> > > b) a big world, actual world is small, I haven't tried anything bigger
> >
> >by
> >
> > > now, but the bigger the world the more objects it will have and the
> > > more objects means more time to create a perception.
> >
> >i would like to tile the world in zones and the players can move from zone
> >to
> >zone. is this better than having one big world?
>
> Yes, that is what we are doing right now on stendhal.
> But it will reach a point where zones itself would become big. I have plans
> for this in Marauroa 2.00 but that is still a bit far away :)
>
> I would move by now with several zones.
>
> > > The MAIN problem you are going to find right now is that the C
> > > interface
> >
> >is
> >
> > > outdated, and I have no time to update it right now. You can develop
> > > the game in Java, but is Java fast enough for you? I have seen Stendhal
> >
> >running
> >
> > > at 90 fps at 640x480x32bits, with it is a very good result... You
> > > should think if Java is a solution for you.
> > > The C version will be outdated at least until Autumn ( unless someone
> >
> >else
> >
> > > can work on it )
> >
> >i definitly won't fiddle with c or c++. tried it twice. it's frustrating.
> > i definitly would like to code in java. but i haven't found any docu on
> > the protocol for communication between a client and the server. perhaps u
> > can give a link to it.
>
> Ok, so perfect :) Arianne is your engine!
> Look at the Wiki: http://arianne.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> All the documentation is there.
>
> Take a loot to marauroa.client.ariannexp class. You just need to extend it
> to create an arianne client. It doesn't impose any loop style, you need to
> implement the loop yourself.
> You can look at Stendhal code for ideas/inspirations and ways of not doing
> things :)
>
> Unfortunatelly there isn't many documentation about the Java way of
> developing clients because this code is new ( only 4 months old ) and we
> haven't have time to document it correctly at wiki.
>
> Regards,
> Miguel
>
>
>
>
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