Re: [VDrift] Game networking

[Nicolas C. <nic...@ya...>]

yes, an hybrid can be something to think about and try. I don't know all
the consequences with the rest of the project, I don't know what Vamos
can do (can it manage collisions between cars ? what does happen in case
of a collision, basically ? does it allow us to move cars freely ? how
does it react then ?), so I can't tell


anyway, very generally, this is basically what I expect from a good
network protocol :

_a dedicated server implementation (that can theoretically be
implemented into both the client -vDrift- and a dedicated server, so
maybe we don't really need anything else), and try to avoid a
non-dedicated server implementation (sometimes it's not possible)
_an implementation that can handle a virtually unlimited number of
clients. For example someone said on the forum "OpenAL will quickly run
out of available sources", well yes if we consider a client = X sources,
but we should rather think as "we got Y sources available, how do we
assign them to the surrounding cars", if you see what I mean
_on the server, a per user quality of service and bandwith optimisation
_a master server (server that clients connect to to get, at least, a
list of running servers connected to it)
_even more generally, to ensure a minimum total ping, the best
collisions management, and so on

Nicolas


	

	
		
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