2006-07-24 15:33:11

Comparison for /Gen Engine / Networking of 2006-07-24 15:33:11 and 2006-07-24 15:54:08

Deletions:

Look into the 3 networking structs.cs files and see what can be moved into networkings one. Might be able to delete the two other structs files then.

2006-07-24 15:30:15

Comparison for /Gen Engine / Networking of 2006-07-24 15:30:15 and 2006-07-24 15:33:11

Additions:

Idea Chalkboard

Deletions:

Comparison for /Gen Engine / Networking of 2006-07-24 15:29:33 and 2006-07-24 15:30:15

Additions:

Theres a single abstract class called NetworkDataHandler that handles the data that is passed to and from the Networking dll.

Deletions:

Theres a single abstract class called Network Data Handler? that handles the data that is passed to and from the Networking dll.

Comparison for /Gen Engine / Networking of 2006-07-05 22:04:45 and 2006-07-24 15:29:33

Additions:

Network Layout

Dedicated Server & Client System
Each client is only aware of the server
The Server is aware of all clients
A client sends a message to the server. Depending on what that data is the server may either:
- Process the data and broadcast it to multiple clients
- Process the data and send it to 1 or more clients i.e. a smaller subset of the above
- Process the data and send verification to the client that it has been processed i.e. ack
- In reality the first two are going to be the same thing as we hope to enable broadcasting to limited groups of users. User A on the farthest left edge of the world doesnt need to know that User B on the opposite side of the world moved left.

Programmatic Structure

There is a single Networking dll class that does all the lowest level data sending and receiving. It is oblivous to the actual data beyond knowing it is a byte array.
Theres a single abstract class called Network Data Handler? that handles the data that is passed to and from the Networking dll.
The client and the server both have their own network data handler classes that implement the above Networking version. The reason for this is due to the server will need to handle the data differently than the client i.e. the client sends data solely to the server but the server sends data to oodles of clients.
Actual game world interacting with the network involves calling functions on the relevant network data handler i.e. ClientNetworkDataHandler.Instance.sendMoveCommand(this.id, this.x, this.y); would send the players current position to the server.

To Do

Re-implement sending binary data
Start adding more data types that can be passed and finish implementing the ones that already exist.
Look into the 3 networking structs.cs files and see what can be moved into networkings one. Might be able to delete the two other structs files then.
Implement sending to groups instead of every client. That will allow us to do things like say “broadcast this message to all clients within x radius of my current position” instead of how it is now which is “broadcast this message to all clients connected to the server”.