Smooth Multiplayer

SquareDanceSteve · 2005-06-12T20:34:45

My game (www.squaredancestudios.com) is a naval wargame. The server and the client use identical game engines. I am using udp. The client is a viewer for the game running on the server. The client recieves updates as to the position of each boat, its direction of movement, its rudder angle and its current angle... That way the client can continue to predict the movements of each ship after each update from the server. The movement on the client end even over lan is a tad choppy, so I made a packet numbering systems so that packets that are out of order are dropped. Unfortunatly it appears that the client is always a little behind the server or is the client ahead of the packets that are arriving? Im not sure. I was woundering if anyone had ant tips how to smooth out the integration of the updates from the server with the simulation running on the client.