Re: [TuxKart-devel] Work to do.

[pmb <phi...@vi...>]

Steve Baker wrote:

> pmb wrote:
>
>> In the network area, i'm totally lost. However, I can learn about it 
>> and would happilly to that part.
>
>
> Er - sorry - I lost track of who I was talking to!
>
> IMHO, the major programming tasks are:
>
> 1) AI - The karts that are not being driven by the player(s) need to
>    know how to drive around the track without crashing into stuff and
>    to drive agressively enough to be a challenge at the highest level
>    of difficulty - and passively enough to let the player win in the
>    easier levels.  They have to know when to shoot their weapons,
>    how to dodge player-launched weapons, when to go for collectibles
>    and when it's not worth it.
>
> 2) Physics - The behavior of the kart on the track - the input is the
>    mouse/keyboard/joystick stuff - the output is the position of the
>    kart on the track.  Probably, the enemy kart AI should also drive
>    the karts through the same physics - but that's not necessarily true.
>
> 3) Startup sequence - improve the present startup GUI, allow you to 
> select
>    who you want to play as, which track to drive - hopefully with little
>    screen shots - or spinning 3D models.  Select difficulty level, select
>    play mode (single player, two player, single race, multiple-race, 
> etc).
>
> 4) Split-screen mode for two human players on one computer.  (I've 
> already
>    'claimed' this job - I know exactly where to touch the code - I can do
>    it VERY quickly.
>
> 5) Lots of other 'detail' tasks.  Adding particle system effects to the
>    karts for exhaust smoke, tyre smoke and other eye-candy.
>
> ...I'm sure there are lots of others.
>
>> However, the network play have to use some kind of portable library 
>> witch handle network devices.
>
>
> PLIB has that. (PLIB has *everything*!!  PLIB **RULEZ**!!! All hail 
> PLIB.)
>
> Network play (which we don't *NEED* - but would be cool) entails nasty
> issues like extrapolation for missing data packets, making a version
> of the game that can act as 'server' and stripping out the 'client'
> code so it basically does what it's told.
>
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Great job for PLIB, as you said it have everithing in it !!!
I will do the Network part as I don't know much about physics and have 
never worked with AI.

- pmb