RE: [Plib-devel] Re: KobayashiMaru & plib

[Ben W. <be...@bg...>]

Hello 

I am also working on some networking code for plib, a tcp and a udp section,
perhaps we can work together on it. It's not portable to mac yet and there
are definately some places that have to be worked on but hey if your
interested let me know.

Later Ben


I'm currently in the process of taking the network code from this and
rewriting it into a separate generic library (something I
should had done from the start, but hey, we live and learn).  The network
library (to my surprise), is turning out to be quite
powerful :) . From an API point of view you can just subclass new objects
from the base one provided, and effectively do:

STNetworkObj *obj = new STNetworkObj ;
obj -> SetPos ( blah ) ;

NetworkEnv::AddNewObj ( obj ) ;

( Obviously it's a bit more complex than that.  In actuallality your
subclassed objects have to specify which of their
data-variables are to be transmitted over the network, what accuracy they
require (this can be range based) etc.  Objects can also
be placed in classes and assigned relative strengths.  For example, you
might have a scanning class - into which you can place
scanners and jammers.  The network engine works out what information the
client *should* know about and transmit only that).

The network library shields all the nasty dead-reckoning, time-sync, latency
and path extropolation problems at it's highest level.