eezstreet
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11 years ago Did you fix the first person weapon animations in MP? (chunkiness, also Stouker rifle missing its _barrel animation)?
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From: Razishmailto:notifications@github.com Sent: 4/20/2013 9:33 PM To: Razish/OpenJKmailto:OpenJK@noreply.github.com Subject: [OpenJK] "support flags" for generic mod feature support (#140)
When developing JA++, I ran into several issues of JA+ version sniffing. I ended up faking these version numbers, and developed a [client/server] support flag system, where the client hints what features it supports (/setu csf 0xFFFFFFFF on init) such as large (32 player) scoreboard, K/D scoreboard, fixed weapon animations (missing concussion rifle anims), and other things that would otherwise break base compatibility.
The code looks like this
if ( Server_Supports( SSF_SCOREBOARD_KD ) )
cg.scores[scoreIndex].deaths = atoi( CG_Argv( i * scoreOffset + 18 ) );
// or
if ( !Client_Supports( ent, CSF_SCOREBOARD_LARGE ) ) {
if ( numSorted > MAX_CLIENT_SCORE_SEND )
numSorted = MAX_CLIENT_SCORE_SEND;
}Having an open standard for this would be a nice way to offer inter-mod support without version sniffing. Of course major gameplay changing mods won't need to worry about this, but for lighter server mods that don't require a client modification where people are free to use their own mods (e.g. a JA++ server with JA+, base and Smod clients all able to support these features) this is a rather nice approach in my opinion.
Server sets 'ssf' as serverinfo, client sets 'csf' as userinfo. Both are represented in hex so it only uses a few characters.
@ensiform you mentioned something about my JA+ compatibility changes, was this it =p?
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/Razish/OpenJK/issues/140
Razish
When developing JA++, I ran into several issues of JA+ version sniffing. I ended up faking these version numbers, and developed a [client/server] support flag system, where the client hints what features it supports (/setu csf 0xFFFFFFFF on init) such as large (32 player) scoreboard, K/D scoreboard, fixed weapon animations (missing concussion rifle anims), and other things that would otherwise break base compatibility.
The code looks like this
Having an open standard for this would be a nice way to offer inter-mod support without version sniffing. Of course major gameplay changing mods won't need to worry about this, but for lighter server mods that don't require a client modification where people are free to use their own mods (e.g. a JA++ server with JA+, base and Smod clients all able to support these features) this is a rather nice approach in my opinion.
Server sets 'ssf' as serverinfo, client sets 'csf' as userinfo. Both are represented in hex so it only uses a few characters.
@ensiform you mentioned something about my JA+ compatibility changes, was this it =p?