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Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

I am told MGB designed the binary object code. Is this right?

The main problem is that it treats object states as global. This is very bad. Each client can have a different state--and even different coordinates--for each object. The binary object packet needs to be passed straight through to the target(s) as is.

The second problem is that is doesn't work correctly. In the powerball arena in HZ, the scoreboard graphics all get turned on on entry. Does it default ServerControlled objects to ON?

At this point, we are basically going to have to rewrite the object code from scratch.
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Muskrat · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:06 am Post subject:

Are you saying that modifying objects shouldn't have a private target? It IS annoying that objects can't be modified permanently, as in saving it in the lvz, but I like being able to move an object or something for only one person. If it is re-written will there be a way to do both of these things? Perhaps many public targets save it, but private modifications only temporary until the next public change or re-entering the area, etc.

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

I'm saying exactly what I said. If I sent a packet to turn an object on for you, that object is only on for you. It is still off for everyone else. The server has no business "remembering" that state.

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Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

Well, what we are seeing is that ALL objects get turned ON. In the LVZ they are defined as ServerControlled, which should default to OFF. ASSS appears to be turning all objects ON when you enter the arena.

Dr Brain · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject:

I'm quite sure ASSS doesn't do that by default on a fresh arena (unless it was changed in the past 2 weeks). There's possibly conditions where it might do that, but not straight out of the box.

ServerControlled ARE off by default.

Oh, and I also think it was Catid and not MGB.
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Bak · Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:02 am Post subject:

whenever an object is turned on for the whole arena, it is remembered and sent to entering players. This eliminates the need to resend the scoreboard to entering players.

stag shot · Newbie Joined: Jan 18 2005 Posts: 10 Offline

Not sure whether the server "should" be doing such things, but I've fixed the problem by simply commenting out the code under S2C_TOGGLEOBJ.

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Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

I like the feature. It just wasn't working. It was turning on all objects all the time.

Grelminar · Creator of Asss Joined: Feb 26 2003 Posts: 378 Offline

The current objects.c was written by catid. I don't know much about it, or the objects protocol. If you want to fix bugs, or rewrite it from scratch, please go ahead.

Goldeye · Novice Gender: Joined: Dec 15 2003 Posts: 57 Offline

In most hz arenas we use my varlvz module to manage scoreboards. While it doesn't really handle player-specific states (well, it might, I don't remember) it could easily be adapted for pb.

It sets a named object variable to a numberic state. Could be used to put up numbers, times, words, etc, easily.