Re: AW: [Arianne-devel] Storing the player characters

[Drew P. V. <dv...@in...>]

Creative usage of db2 and atomically updated XML files would get my
vote.

Regards,
Drew Vogel


On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, SkyFlash wrote:

>> I agree 100% just let's use the MySQL stuff to do it.
>> We need to keep track of these features:
>> . Storing players on MySQL
>> . Creating 3D Engine for Server for Collision detection
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>I dont think we can store all the info in the database.... because... a
>player will have slots full of objects,
>and we dont want to have them all in the worldfile... they are useless
>and waste resources...
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>Also the equipment of the player will be a major part of the characters
>info...
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>We could probably do the job without a mysql database, but we CAN'T do
>it ONLY with the database...
>thats why I think we should maybe just skip the database and go for a
>single solution for it all...
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>Creating 3d engine for collision.... uuhh.... do you really want to put
>in a 3D collision detection into arianne server?
>Thats not gonna work... really... it will break the whole objects
>concept. Maybe a bounding box detection for the objects,
>so players don't run over objects. That means you got the center and the
>volume of the object and the player cant run into it...
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>Yes, thats maybe possible, but not a 3D polygon based detection, thats
>impossible... it would mean we mirror the whole CrystalSpace code inside
>the server, and the server doesnt have enough time to compute all
>that....
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>See, I think later the player should be able to walk on top of objects
>OR to walk inside 3D objects.... how you wanna do that?
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