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Good packet size?

MadProgrammer · 2001-11-27T19:54:49

whats a good packet size for a packet that is just an update of the x/y/direction of a player that is sent around 10-20 times/sec? i''m trying to figger out if i can afford sending the name of the player (25 bytes long) in that packet or if i''m gonna hafta find a less-large way to uniquely represent each player

Networking and Multiplayer Programming

Started by MadProgrammer November 24, 2001 05:19 PM

11 comments, last by MadProgrammer 22 years, 7 months ago

kurifu

122

November 26, 2001 10:13 AM

Login to the server man.. then match the IP address, or other connection information to a name in a database. A little more work on the end of the server, but it eliminates the need to transmit unneded, and lengthy data.

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meh

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November 26, 2001 10:48 AM

10-20 updates per second is fine. But you''d still notice significant lag if packets weren''t sent everytime a change happened to your enviroment (ie. someone shooting/changing direction) so those packets also need to be sent out as soon as the event occurs. The regular packet updates should only be used to keep the gaming running in sync.

SmG

122

November 27, 2001 07:54 PM

only the position data is updated often. if you shoot a gun a new event is sent immediately and not with the next packet. this nearly eliminates lag is case of firing an gun or at least it''s the minimum you can get. position data can be smoothed, so you only need 5 packets per second if they contain some information about ''how'' the player moves. whith that i can even host 10 players on a 128KBit/s ISDN line.