Cstrike uses a separate message to send this information. Not all players made be in your PVS so you don't know were everyone is. AddToFullPack() is currently called num_players*num_map_entities per frame, so adding anything extra in here is expensive (I am doing some optimisation work right now to remove this bottleneck).
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [hlcoders] AddToFullPack(...) question... > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > I edited this function to allow for players info to be sent > regardless of > line of sight for a client side radar I coded a while ago. > However I did > not realize this would in turn force the client to draw the > players all the > time regardless of line of sight. This creates a huge > performance problem as > players could be on opposite sides of the map, but you can > see the epoly's > are still being rendered in the background (and then of > course being covered > up by foreground polygons or whatnot). Is there any other way > to do this? I > just want player origin coordinates. If I don't add them to > the pack each > frame, then clients will not be able to get any other players > coordinates > unless they are in the line of sight. This defeats the > purpose of my radar > as I want teammates to be able to see other teammates on the > radar all the > time. I could care less about all the other info and I > definitely don't want > hl to be rendering unnecessary polygons. I suppose I could > send each player, > every other player's origin every 1/10th of a second or so in > some kind of > message, but this is redundant information and this was the > old method for a > radar. Is there an elegant way to do this? To take advantage > of client side > information without causing all these adverse side effects? > > > > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
