<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
James Cameron wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:20080331233305.GC5634@us.netrek.org" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:28:04PM -0400, Mark Mielke wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">I was listened to, I believe one patch may have made it in, and I have
kept some patches separate.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
Please submit them again, I'm interested in proposed code changes, and
if they are working for you and you have kept them separate then that
counts for something</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
Netrek is only of historical interest to me these days - I haven't
played in over a year. :-)<br>
<br>
The patches were things like:<br>
<ol>
<li>Forward and reverse orbits - depending on entry trajectory
(affects game play)</li>
<li>Smooth bouncing off the walls - errors in the wall bounce logic
made it jitter unpredictably.</li>
<li>Proper calculation of wall wrap - again, errors in the wall logic
under chaos rules</li>
<li>Phaser lock across the wall, plasma seeking across the wall</li>
<li>Enemies across the wall show up as "near", meaning better cloaker
approximation (more frequent updates), and proper updates to "see"
torpedoes, phasers, etc. across the wall in suitably modified clients.<br>
</li>
</ol>
I think I've seen some patches get in completely independent from my
efforts, so other people had similar ideas.<br>
<br>
If there is interest, I can try to resurrect those patches.<br>
<br>
The last big thing I was going to work on around 6 or 7 years ago was a
co-ordinated robot team that combines information across clients acting
as if each ship is an arm of the same command unit, alternatively
exchanging damage, protecting cloakers, co-ordinated oggs, co-ordinated
alternating det-others, etc. It was an intriguing idea - but after
spending a few hours on it off and on for 2 months, it fell by the
wayside. :-)<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
mark<br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Mark Mielke <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mark@mielke.cc"><mark@mielke.cc></a>
</pre>
</body>
</html>