Re: [Torcs-ng-devel] Network play status

[Brian <bga...@gm...>]

If anyone is interested in understanding network gaming here is a very good
link.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=db0854bc-7780-49c2-a507-0b86da927152&displaylang=en

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=db0854bc-7780-49c2-a507-0b86da927152&displaylang=en>It
talks about Microsoft technologies, but everything in applies to network
gaming.  Including what I am doing.

Brian

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Brian <bga...@gm...> wrote:

>
>> What do you mean by "peer-to-peer" here ? Does this means that
>> the communications between the clients and server
>> do no longer follow the start scheme (server at the center of the star) ?
>>
>> Before the race, it is a client-server system with the server choosing the
> race settings and everyone connecting to the server.  During the race, I am
> using what some people call a hybrid system.  Each player(client) does their
> own physics and  sends/broadcasts their car position information to all
> other players.  The host still keeps track of somethings such as the winner
> of the race and a few other things.  In my original plan I was worried the
> physics wouldn't work right without the server doing all of the physics.  My
> testing has shown that clients doing physics works ok.  The peer-to-peer
> hybrid reduces the latency and bandwidth requirements.  All robots are still
> controlled on the server.
>
> Brian
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