koobas.hobune.stream
Networking: fast firing weapons?
Is there any trick to reduce number of packets sent when firing a fast weapon like machine gun or flamethrower? For example how does TF2 handle theirs?
Sure - simulate the firing on all clients and only send the started and ended firing commands to the other players would be one way. Are you actually instantiating projectiles?
yea I instantiate new projectile every 100 milliseconds. I suppose precision doesn't matter in this case so every client can instatiate these projectiles independently only based on start/end fire events. But how would I send correct damage then? I am using something similar to a P2P model, i.e. whoever fires the gun calculates the damage (clientside) and sends it to others. So in my case I would still need to spam packets but for damage? Or is there a nice trick to group them together?
So send - begin fire, end fire events to all the clients and use them for the simulation.
On the firing client - add your damage packet to a List<DamagePacket> and then send them all 5 times a second or something. It's actually quite possible to turn that list into a string and fire it across the network. My extension to RPC here has the code to convert a serializable class to a string and then reconstitute it on the far end. In other words you can RPC to methods with parameters that are your own custom serializable classes.
