I am rewriting the source code

[Norakam]

[FaTony]

I was waiting for change of multiplayer guidelines to start modding a server. The 1 problem I see is that there's no specification of the network protocol, so I wanted to keep original code in place but add a C++ API on top of it.

[Iceflower]

[acerspyro]

80 characters is actually a standard for line breaks, but if absolutely needed, you can go over.

[qreeves]

[zaquest]

[Norakam]

[qreeves]

curtime is the time since the last frame in milliseconds.
totalmillis is the total number of milliseconds elapsed since the program was started.
lastmillis is the total number of milliseconds elapsed with gamespeed taking into account.
clocktime is the current time in seconds since the epoch in UTC.
currenttime is the current time in seconds since the epoch in local time.
totalsecs is the total number of seconds since the program was started, used only for maxruntime.

[FaTony]

[eihrul]

In this case, I am just going to be blunt: I am not interested in seeing wholesale rewrites of the engine to whatever pet programming style some programmer thinks is better than what we use. The argument that there is some holy, ordained style that one should be using and that we are not using, it just doesn't fly with me. The style we use works perfectly well for our engine, you just refuse to learn it, is all.

Yes, the Cube 2 source code is a bit idiosyncratic for historical reasons, but at the same time, it is still consistent, powerful, and allows interchange with all the other codebases that use Cube 2 with far less hassle than the alternatives. For that reason alone, I will more or less refuse these kinds of efforts, because I want to keep all the various instances of Cube 2 that I oversee interoperable and easy to work with any of them if you've worked with one.

[Norakam]

[shirepirate]

i'd suggest rewriting the hit detection algorithm, one of the most frustrating things for me when i come back to this game once in a while after playing other online multiplayer shooters is the no regs and the high average ping of players.
having a small community makes it so you can't simply block people from entering a server when their ping is too high, but the hit detection should greatly favor the shooter as to alleviate frustration. When you're used to your shots registering and have that preset expectation, then find that they don't In Red Eclipse the game isn't fun any more.

bit of a ramble but as long as you're rewriting code there's an idea on something you could greatly improve, as it's horrid in it's current state (lets not even talk about a high ping player using sword).

[Jfault]

*cough* urv *cough*

[qreeves]

[Norakam]

[Iceflower]

Why do you not use the std::strings?

[qreeves]

We already have the things you are trying to implement.

vector<char> mystring;
concatstring(mystring, " world!");
DStr can be done with either vector<char> or newstring()
Either can be used as char* or const char* with vector::getbuf() or the proper pointer. Nothing prevents strings from being cast to const, you just can't use delete on it.

[Norakam]

[Norakam]

[qreeves]

We don't use that sort of code style, so I guess the point is moot anyway. If it helps you, then more power to you :P