MantisBT - Zandronum
What I suggest is to keep track of these changes for the tic they're made when in an actual netgame. When an inventory count or actor/player/etc property is changed, store its original value in an array, as well as a reference to the item or property in particular, however that may be. At the end of that tic, check the original value against the new value. If they're the same, there is no need to tell the client that anything changed, and so nothing is sent regarding that value. Otherwise, send an update as usual.
Mods like Samsara do many inventory modifications and actor property changes per tic, according to both clientside CVars (for stuff like classic Wolfenstein movement, classic weapon animations, etc), serverside CVars (jetpack banning, no custom gravity, etc), whether certain items are present (extra life for Blazko, jetpack for Duke, many powerup timers for Ranger), and whatnot. As a result, the mod poorly scales up to player count, and while wrapping code with "if (CheckInventory(things)) { stuff }" blocks is surely possible, it's cumbersome and trades off net friendliness for unnecessary code bloat, ugliness, and wasted cycles. Something like this would help drastically.
| parent of | 0001628 | closed | Torr Samaho | Give_Inventory doesn't work right online on zandronum 2.0 |
tooptimize.pk3 (1,186) 2013-12-20 02:18https://zandronum.com/tracker/file_download.php?file_id=1119&type=bug