This is a good idea. If there is a 100x100 (or 100x50 etc) block of completely identical archtypes (and the player is in LOS range of these (they are not behind a wall), we don't want to send the whole map to him, then the server could send something like (100x100 of flagstone starting at bla bla).
--- Alex Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Wedel wrote: > > > This issue is really the server->client > direction, and that already is binary, > >so not a whole bunch of savings. > > > > I have a feeling the big hog is the map data - > things like stats is never > >much. The item stuff, especially for huge piles, > can add up. And I think > >someone suggested that the detailed item > information (what you get from describe > >item) is also sent along - I think that may be a > reasonable idea, but does > >increase the bandwidth on that (that is also tricky > in that certain things could > >change the description of the item (it being > identified will change its value > >for example) - I'm not 100% the UPD_ flags cover > that, but probably do (but > >money will always be suspect - changing charisma > can affect costs also). > > > What would also save alot of bandwidth, would be > including in the new > server protocol a method of sending rectangular > blocks of tiles that > should all be added of deleted. This could > potentially cut the map > bandwidth in half or less in some locations (lots of > floor and walls > compared to everything else). Making the client > interperate the data for > that would be very easy, the most difficult part > would be the server > logic of where it should define rectangles but I am > sure that is not too > bad. > I put up a couple ideas about the new map protocol > here a while back: > http://wiki.metalforge.net/doku.php/dev_todo/newmapprotocol > (see also > http://wiki.metalforge.net/doku.php/dev_todo and > http://wiki.metalforge.net/doku.php/dev_todo/cf2.0 > on the wiki) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
