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January 8th, 2007, 07:59 PM
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Simple Game Question
Hello, Im wondering with Live action RPGs, FPSs and such. How do you check if the user is dead while your waiting for a key input?
(I know this isnt code its a design) I always thought games go like this: Code:
Game Loop Starts: Wait for user input Check what user inputed Collision Detection AI Logic Game Loop starts again. But what if the player is attacked while waiting for the user to input something? How would u move AI while waiting for the user to input something? - Cheers, Daniel
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January 8th, 2007, 08:28 PM
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Your loop is slightly incorrect. Instead of "Wait for player input", it should read "Check if player input" and continue through the loop if there is no input.
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January 9th, 2007, 09:01 AM
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Yes. You should have a few threads each specializing on something. One for getting user input, one for AI logic (probably one for every ai), one for for sync'ing with the server, one for display... I'm no expert on game programming but it should go along those lines. Then you can have the system take care of doing all of it "together". What you still will have to do is that the different threads don't mess with each other. You do this by ensuring that a thread that reads or writes some data doesn't get interrupted by another thread writing or reading that data... Monitors, Semaphores and Deadlock Prevention are some keywords to look up for this. Won't be easy though...
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January 9th, 2007, 04:19 PM
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Thats why you find a good 3rd party game development engine. Its faster, often easier, and hopefully some good support.
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