Ok thnx, I'll pass the information on. ----- Original Message ----- From: botman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Creating a persistant statistic database?
> > > > I help moderate the VERC Wanted forums and someone recently posted a > request > > for a programmer to create a database system for an on-line RPG mod using > > HL. Now my knowledge of the networking side of HL is somewhere between > zero > > and minus one but something in my gut says it can't be done. I know that > > it's possible to get information from games written to HTML documents (as > > some sites display player stats on websites from various games) but is it > > possible for a HL server to draw information from a database like a web > > server and allow for a designer to create an RPG like leveling system? I > > know that it'd be easier to simply store the stats locally in an encoded > > file but it's always possible for those to be hacked which is why the > person > > who posted wants to take this other route. > > > > Any suggestions or advice for me relay to the designer would be most > > appreciated. > > It is true that you can't use the Half-Life client/server network stream to > send your own custom data back and forth (other than the standard client <-> > server network packets containing entity information). However, there's > nothing to stop a client or server from creating it's own Windows/Linux > socket network connection to a server (using some other IP port than what > the client and server are using). The database server that you connect to > could store persistent information using MySQL, flat ASCII text files, or > whatever you wanted. Servers could connect to this database server and > retrieve information for clients, then use the Half-Life engine network > protocol to stream this data to the client (sent as entity information), or > the clients create a network connection to the persistent database server > directly (although this might lead to client side hacking if the client used > a network proxy to modify the data coming from the database). > > Jeffrey "botman" Broome > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
