Re: [GD-General] Information on approaches to networking games

[Mads B. D. <ma...@ch...>]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, brian hook wrote:

> > OK - if someone else knows it I would like to hear about it. It does 
> not 
> > look particulary advanced from the index. 
> 
> As I said, with 90 minutes I don't think you'll have time to get into 
> advanced stuff.  And honestly, if you're just now learning this stuff, 

I am not - I am getting back to a subject I have been away from for a 
while :-).

> you may not be comfortable trying to distill a bunch of knowledge that 
> you're not intimately familiar with into such a reduced timeframe.

That is absolutely true. I will not be doing that, but I need to make sure 
I am not talking nonsense.

> 
> > sure that the stuff "I once knew" is not totally outdated today. (Are 
> > games doing anything particulary more advanced than 
> > QuakeWorld/Quake2/Quake3 today?)
> 
> Given that those three games did networking fairly significantly 
> differently, I'd be hesitant to group them together.  Their only major 
> commonality is that they're UDP based; delta compress; and are client-
> server.  The implementation of reliable communication was altered 
> drastically from Quake2->Quake3, and delta state compression was 
> radically altered from QW to Q2.

OK. Do you have references to someone discussing this?

> 
> However, I would submit that Quake3's networking model is probably a 
> pretty good reference for first person shooters.  But it probably would 
> not be the ideal model for a real-time strategy game or RPG.

I am aware of that. Although not in the detail I would like.

Thanks,

Mads

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