User:Franklin

Week 4 Report

What I did

• Managed world events on client and server
  • Reset logic for both victory and loss conditions
• HUD related world events
  • Start Screen - every player presses start to play
  • "Art" for start screen and other HUD elements

Week 4 Report

What I did

• Created a World Manager and Event Manager
  • Handles restart logic and hopefully future world events
• Character animation support
• Debugged various features.

What I didn't do

• Haven't quite figured out a good way to implement and use the event manager.
• Haven't figured out how to make the network manager cleaner with a better api

What I'm doing this week

• HUD related elements
  • Start Screen
  • 2D texture positioning
  • "Art"

Morale

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Week 3 Report

What I did

• Networking
  • Manage dropped connections (in case clients crash)
    • Allow for reconnecting the client to the server.
  • Serialization of certain objects (Frames)
• Networking and Game Logic
  • Work with Nathan to notify clients of their id generated on the server.
• Configuration Manager
  • Educating the other members of my team about the Configuration Manager.
  • Parsing Point Vectors.
  • Generating a copy of config.ini to config_dev.ini if it doesn't already exist

Notes

• Reconnecting doesn't work if the client exits in an expected manner.
• Educating group about config_dev proves to be an interesting challenge.
  • Even the individual who requested the feature seems to have trouble remembering that this exists.

Plan for this week

• Game Logic
  • Working on restarting the game if everyone dies.
• Networking
  • Polishing and refactoring if spare time
• Work with anyone else doing anything else.

What I'm doing next week

• No idea as of now.

Morale

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Week 2 Report

What I did

• Created a basic network manager that can send messages from the server to the client
• Server can communicate with clients via CIN and clients respond back with acks
  • Update: Network and Game Logic is integrated.
• Updated the Packet type to hold 1024 bytes as data
  • Current assumption is that (de)serialization is going to copy and paste using memcpy and sizeof(class)
• Tested communication between clients on different lab machines.
• Created Configuration Manager (uses config.ini)
  • Using CM in a few places.

Notes

• These should find their way to other parts of the wiki.
• If you get an error that says it can't find dxd9, go to Properties. Under Configuration Properties, there is a VC++ Directories. In Include and Library Directories, link to the Direct X installation "C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK %28June 2010%29\Include" and "C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK %28June 2010%29\Library" respectively.
• Follow this guide to enable a custom shared library for both client and server: MSDN Shared Library Guide

What I'm doing next week

• Finishing whatever I didn't finish this week.
• Working with the Engine/Logic team to serialize and deserialize objects

Morale

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Week 1 Report

What I did

• Worked on Project Spec/Schedule with the team
• Discussed direction and design of project with the group.

What I'm doing this week

• Working on networking between a client and server project.
• Constructing Config File (Likely XML)
• Creating logging construct to log all messages passed between client and server(w/timestamp).
• Making setup executable to modify Config file

What I'm doing next week

• Finishing whatever I didn't finish this week.
• Working with the Engine/Logic team to serialize and deserialize objects