[Once development] What's happening (re programming)

[<Cir...@cs...>]

Well, not much happening on my part this week;  I'm pretty busy at work
and too tired to program when I get home. :)  All I've done so far is
try to figure out how to solve the current segfault problem; at the
moment I feel I'll have to do more reading on CS before I make any
decisions.

I'm also looking into the collision detection on the server (does it
exist yet?) and how to select items on the server. For example, the
client sees a box and another character. The client clicks on the box to
open it -- the server has to somehow know that: a. The client really can
see that box and b. the client has selected the box.   This is easy to
do on the client side because we have the camera etc,  but we don't
trust client data (we don't want clients in "god mode" where they can
just walk through walls and things). So, in principle the client should
only send a message to the server to say "I clicked here: (x,y,z)".  Now
for the big trick: how does the server identify what object was clicked
based on that info?  I don't think we want a "camera" to do the work on
the server because it handles rendering as well, and even with the
"null" renderer, I imagine a lot of time will be wasted making calls to
the renderer's stub functions.  Obviously this is a problem that needs
to be solved for the tech release.

As for new programmers; since they probably have to learn CS/CEL, I
don't see any problem in bringing them on now.  I imagine a few weeks to
get each new programmer started on something substantial. :)  Ooh...
that reminds me... I have some notes on the server program flow that I
should clean up and post on the wiki...

...pinniped