Players and visibility

Siberwulf · 2005-12-21T11:51:16

I'm currently pseudo coding the portion of my network code that will hide/show players as they move into the current player's range of visibility. I'm halfway where I need to be :) When a player (VisiblePlayer) moves into the range of visibility (CurrentPlayer): -Server sends CurrentClient a packet describing a position for a VisiblePlayer. -Client establishes that the VisiblePlayer is not in the current list of visible players. -Client then sends back asking for full details of the VisiblePlayer, so it can be drawn on the screen -Server determines of the requested details are allowed to be shown on the screen (to prevent hacks and spoofing of requests) -Server then sends back, if allowed, the details of the VisiblePlayer -Client draws VisiblePlayer at updatedlocation On the other hand, when VisiblePlayer walks outside of the visibility range of CurrentPlayer, how do you tell the Client to drop the player off its visible players list? One thought I had was to have a "LastUpdated" timer. If an update wasn't received within XX seconds, then the Client would remove the VisiblePlayer. This would require a "heartbeat" type function though, I believe. IE, what if a player goes AFK..they should just stand there, not go poof. Thanks in advance :) Edit: If this is in the wrong place, please move to where applicable :D Thx!