[pythian] Re: CODE - Network
- From: "Steven Soroka" <ssoroka@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pythian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:55:59 -0500
> - The player presses the forward key
> - The client sends a message to the server saying "I am
> moving forward"
> - The client's PhysicsEngine simulates the movement forward
> - The server receives the message and simulates the movement
> forward in
> its PhysicsEngine
> - The server sends back an updated state
> - The client adjusts its state to match the server
Or we could do that. ;P
> I see an easy opportunity for cheating. It would be easy to hack the
> client so that other players and NPCs are visible through walls. I
> could do it in about 1 line of code, actually. I think by having an
> open source multi-player game we are setting the world of
> anti-cheating
> games back by about a decade. Oh well :/
that should be easy to solve. (But worth the computation time? dunno).
Have the server do a line of sight calculation to see if anything obstructs
the view of the two characters. If there is no obstruction, tell them about
eachother, otherwise, don't. ;)
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