The possibilities!

Hi, as you can probably tell I'm inexperienced but interested in the possibilities of OINC.

I have a couple of questions...

1) Can you save the position of an object? If you place an object some where, then everybody logs off, can you make it so it will still be there when you log back on?

2) How exactly does the whole thing work? klikfarm shows some IPs... how can you have more than one game on one host? When I set up a game to run on that server I wondered if I was preventing / messing up anybody elses games which were hosted at the same time.

3) Back to question 1, if it is possible, how many objects can you store at once? Is it limited to the 255 sub channels?

Thanks.

To start, think of it like this:

Channels - a motorway/interstate running up the country
Subchannels - individual lanes of that road

The only data you send through channels/subs is text or numbers - not objects, so the subchannel limit of 255 won't affect number of objects in the game. I would personally just save the state of everything when sopmeone logs off, and then reload it as appropriate. You can send that data to other players (peers) when they log on.

Also, you can have any channels on a server - i.e. a "SharpS game" channel, and a "Ash's game" channel - these will be separate games, and not interact - so don't worry about that.

To to make online games work (and this is the complex part) you need to program one application to not only work as something sending data, but also recieving data and doing something with it.

I think Asholay answered some of your questions pretty well, but to answer 1:
If you want to do that, you'll have to create your own server (eg. you can't use the Klikfarm servers for this). Have a look at the Poinc (Python) or OINC (C++) libraries. They should get you started :)

Something should be released fairly soon which should eliminate the requirement to code your own server ;)

Sounds like witch-craft to me.

Sounds good.

I'm learning how to code this stuff but I don't think I get the big picture still. I'll try to ask some questions that show what it is I don't 'get' about this whole online thing.

I don't understand how the server can carry on 'living' on its own. Is it possible for things to happen, even when there are no players logged on? I know there's a server host some where, but can a game still be running on it when there is no one to see?

The channels and subchannels are there to transport information around, but they don't actually store it?

Why are online plugins named after animals? :P

For the development of OINC I have no problem hosting a limited amount of custom server applications to test with.

They have to run on other ports so it wont affect the main server app.

Just drop me a PM to discuss the posibilities.

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Originally Posted by SharpS

Why are online plugins named after animals? :P

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Wait, "Moo" and "Oinc" are animals now? :P

hence the name klik "farm" :)

OINC is feeling a bit under the weather right now.. swine flu..

Jamie, I didn't know you were Mexican!

I'm not, it was a cheap joke. OINC/Oink/Pig/Swine.