MultiPlayer Proof Of Concept: Oolite Communicator

[hiran]

Hiran:

just stumbled across this: Multi Player Capability - I have development resources!! (2015)

Interesting. But the hackathon is over, the resources likely no more available. And I checked, but the architecture document is no longer behind that link either.

[hiran]

While we are back to this topic:

There was a quite good multiplayer flight simulator out about a decade before Oolite emerged. Who played Descent?
I think the whole plot was placed 'indoor' into a mine to not have to render objects too far away.

But: Hardware has become so much more capable these days that this limitation is probably no more, and Oolite somehow also needs to decide what to render and what not.

I found the source code of that old game for Descent and Descent2. What would happen if you took the old engine, maybe widen up the levels and add Oolite models and graphics? Or use the Descent engine to render in-station or planetary missions?

[Cholmondely]

While we are back to this topic:

There was a quite good multiplayer flight simulator out about a decade before Oolite emerged. Who played Descent?
I think the whole plot was placed 'indoor' into a mine to not have to render objects too far away.

But: Hardware has become so much more capable these days that this limitation is probably no more, and Oolite somehow also needs to decide what to render and what not.

I found the source code of that old game for Descent and Descent2. What would happen if you took the old engine, maybe widen up the levels and add Oolite models and graphics? Or use the Descent engine to render in-station or planetary missions?

Heh! And I was only just looking at this: Leaving the Ship (2015)

[Wildeblood]

Heh! And I was only just looking at this: Leaving the Ship (2015)

You have a special talent for thread necromancy, Cholmondely. When I said there that it would be possible, I was thinking along the same lines as what cbr described.

Capt. Murphy had made his ship test-fly OXP years before. That would store the details of the player's ship when you bought a different one from the shipyard, and if you didn't like the new one, you could return it and have your old ship restored. My idea was to include a surface rover vehicle in the shipyard, which you could rent, drive around the city as cbr described, then return to the shipyard and return to your normal ship.