I've created a separate branch for this because it's gonna be a bitch to
get compiled, and then I'll still have to ensure that the client & server
are work together correctly.
This build does not compile.
It seems that the serialization code has a bug in it. I was expecting
something like this. When the server tries to send the region content, it
exits. I'll try and find the cause of the error, but I'm committing my
changes anyway.
I've added lua hooks for both pager functor classes. Hopefully, I haven't
missed any corner cases, because it took me a while to hunt everything
down. One issue is that the map's save directory needs to be set in the
Format class, but it'll do for now. I'll review this again when I've got
more than one map running at one time.
There should be enough here for a lua-driven map generator to be
implemented, even if it's a bit rough. I think I'll test this out in the
editor eventually, but getting the base branch's network map code going
comes first.
The current process is extremely convulted, so I need to document
everything that I've done so far, including C++ and lua functions.
Conflicts:
server/server_application.cpp (resolved)
After completing the serialization code, I'm merging it into the server's
development branch. This means that although the connection and
disconnection functionality work, I still need to test the player systems
from the new server with the new serialization code.
Immediately following this commit, I'll be merging the minor tweaks to the
editor from the master branch into this one.
I've dummied out the player code, so only the client connection code is
working. Otherwise the protocol hasn't changed.
I've also made a few other tweaks as I went along, but nothing really
major.
Cause:
server/server_application.cpp: line 93
The last argument to std::pair was simply a call to WorldRoom's
contructor. This created a temporary object that fufilled this line, but
after the new std::pair object was added to worldRoomMap, this WorldRoom
object went out of scope.
server/server_application.cpp: line 96
When OpenRoom() was called using an object that was out of scope, the
entire server simply failed.
Solution:
Changed worldRoomMap to hold a pointer to a WorldRoom object, rather than the
object itself. The new and delete operators should be used to create and
delete WorldRoom objects respectfully.
This code is essentially copied from the old branch, since the two
branches are now functionally identical. How much time have I wasted
rewriting this?
Networking and multithreading working at the same time is really fucking
hard. It's better to just have the one thread, and not worry about speed
at this stage.
This is a pretty straight forward port of the old version, including the
incredibly hacky server list. But I just need to remember that this is a
prototype.
This is a reimplementation of the old network queue, but using a class.
This still uses a separate thread, so that packets can wait if there's any
lag. Really, thinking about it, I wonder how necessary this was.
On the upside, no singletons this time. Which means that you can have
several instances of UDPNetworkManager. That's unintentional, but good to
know.
lsqlite3.c looked like a good idea for connnecting SQL and lua, but I
couldn't get it to work and rather than struggle on this, I'll write my
own library later on.
I've created a project for client & editor programs, by simply copying one
to the other. Right now, the client still has the editor scene, but I'll
switch that out soon.
I've also added a license header to the server's source. I don't remember
what else I did, but at this point it should theoretically build out of
the box.
Kayne Ruse