This is actually an old snippet, but hey it was completely commented in German before and with a slight outdated syntax. So here it is: My updated Multiplayer Chat script which I posted in the forums a few times.
It should have commented everything you need to understand the script and give you a little insight into Multiplayer Programming with 3DGS.
If you have any questions about this script. Don’t hesitate to ask!
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No Comments »Well, again it has been quiet some time since the last time I have written here. Buy this time I really have no excuse for it. I simply forgot, no special reason.
Now, right now I am sitting in one of my banks hoping and waiting that they find a lost wire transfer. The story goes like this:
I moved from this bank a long time ago because they are really slow and they are amazingly slow and inexpirienced with international money transfers. But by accident, one of my older clients transferred a big amount of money to this potheads. At the same time I have to move to a new appartment and the last day that I can pay is today, in about 20 minutes. Additionally they turned off the power in my old appartment, so i’m kinda in a Murphy’s Law situation right now.
Anyway, no electricity = no Internet + no free wifi around. So if you are going to read this eventually: everything turned out fine. Only that I am mighty pissed.
[via Spreeblick]
Today, the German federal cabinet passed a new law to filter websites based on a secret list compiled by the Federal Criminal Police Office. The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs communicates the law as a remedy for the prevention of child pornography. While we strongly support any attempt to stop the abuse of humans and children in particular, we doubt that this is the real reason for the law.
For months, experts of all fields have impeached the facts and figures that were communicated by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs as well as the technical implementation of the filtering process. We mistrust the planned non-transparent process, we regard it as ineffective and amateurish and we believe it is counterproductive and a possible threat to democracy.
Since illegal sites on a list must be known beforehand, we urge the government to shut those sites down and prosecute the operators of those sites.
In times of a nationwide election campaign, we regard political populism as highly inappropriate when it should be about the fight against the abuse of minors.
Who would have thought that all these Science-Fiction movies about a total-control-government would some day become true. It’s sad, very sad that Germany is turning more and more into a state of total control. It’s almost like China and Great Britain combined.
Shivers me, it really does.
I just discovered this AWESOME cover of the Still Alive song from Portal in a very nicely done Jazz/Blues/Win/Awesome version. Check it out:
When I read that name first, I instantly thought of the Fallout games.
When I opened the thread, I thought about some stupid game with horrible graphics. While the latter is true, this game is fantastically addicting and well very well done.
You should give this addictive atom-puzzle-logic game a try!
So I had an idea recently, as there are lots of cool and epically awesome tv series out there that are made just got us nerds.
I thought that it would be a nice idea to share them with you in case you didn’t know them.
So, let’s start with a really awesome series that I found through a recommendation by broozar: “Chuck”. At first the series description might not look as promising, buy guys I assure you that this series will rock you nerd zones. Awesome jokes and great acting, including often references to the nerd scene. I can only describe this in the same words that broozar described it to me:
GENIUS
A new NerdTV recommendation next week, stay tuned!
Yeah, that is probably how YOU are going to look after reading this.
I keep frikin’ promising that I will soon have time. But you have to understand my current “employer”, shall I say rather “client”. He always comes up with some new idea, some new thing here, one tiny weenie little problem on that page and if I have some spare time maybe I can help on that other website.
I don’t say no, because he pay’s well and frankly I need the money.
(Look up, what did I tell ‘ya? You’re facepalming right now!, aren’t you!)
And it is for YOUR benefit too. I am putting lots of money into Portico, paying modelers, programmers and other people to give me exactly what I need. Why? Because I’m picky and most people don’t tolerate pickiness without being paid. So I can’t get free models, sounds and stuff because people get angry at me for telling them the 5000th time to change this and that and make that little thingy there a little smaller.
What do I have in mind for keeping you entertained weekly? Originally I was planning on “Nerd TV”, weekly posts to give you some tip on what new/old interesting TV Series to watch that could appeal the Standard-Nerd. But I wrote them on my iPhone and for some reason the WordpressApp doesn’t work anymore. So you’ll have to bare with me until I get to write them anew.
Don’t worry though, I think I might be even re-writing them this weekend. It’s the only godforsaken time I don’t have to work anyway.
I know that I myself am quite unreliable, but as it turns out Spanish people are even more unreliable than me. So I was going to spend the little free time I have ( and I think you know yourselfs how little that actually is) with an friend here.
But as mentioned before: UNRELIABLE. I have seen myself waiting for over an hour and doing lots of calls to hear like five different excuses, of course all of them referring to someones elses fault, until I finally gave up.
It’s sad, and frankly a huge waste of my precious time. Even worse: they know it is.
In the words of Elliot Reid from Scrubs: “double frick on a stick with a brick”.
Just a few more days and I am done with my work. Then I will be all yours again. Be tuned, because I have planned lots of cool tutorials and code snippets for you.
Okay, I know that I haven’t been exactly writing much about 3DGS lately, but you also need to understand that I don’t have too much time on my hands right now.
There is a lot going on lately and unfortunately that thing is a lot of work. But some heads up: I’ll be done real soon. The deadline is for the end of this month and I will be finished by then so that I will have time again for lots and lots of 3DGS bussiness.
In the meantime a bit of updates on my current situation:
I haveba good income on this job, so I was finally able to upgrade my PC with some real good hardware (AMD Athlon64 X2, nVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX+) and as mentioned, also a new iPhone. A first gen iPhone that is, from eBay.
I have loyavof ideas for Portico which I have written down so I won’t forget them any time soon. Most of the important systems are finished, so I can now finally concentrate on the level design and the dialogs. Rest assured that portico WILL release. Even if I find myself unable to, I will release it as open source.
So, that’s it for now. (damn there’s a hot girl sitting right next to me(I am writing this on the bus on my iPhone)). I better stop now and concentrate on the task at hand.
EDIT: She went off at the next stop. Damn.
So, I got my iPhone and after a few hours of frustration, I finally got to install the latest firmware on it so I can use all the cool apps. Long story short: I am writing you this from my iPhone in the Wordpress app.
Now that I can blog more conviniently, I will blog more often - Stay tuned!
