https://github.com/thomasballinger/hla-client

https://github.com/thomasballinger/hla-client

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/thomasballinger/hla-client
• Owner: thomasballinger
• Created: 2012-08-17T14:42:49.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-10-03T15:11:47.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-16T13:43:23.765Z (26 days ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 129 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: readme.md

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README

        
Prototype client for receiving events from 

the ingrid/heylooka server

Motivation

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Clients receive events corresponding only to what the server

thinks they need to know, instead of every single message.

This has applications for reduced load in MMO's where the n

squared communication problem of many clients in a shared world,

or preventing untrusted clients information they should not

reveal to game players (eg, starcraft 1 map hacks)

Protocol

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Clients connect to the server on a tcp port, then receive and send

messages about events occuring. These events have the format

   ascii digits representing num bytes message takes up, terminated by a space

   | aforementioned space (doesn't count toward the message length)

   | | Largest radius at which event is perceivable to a client

   | | |  x-position of event

   | | |  |  y-position of event

   | | |  |  |  Display name of event

   | | |  |  |  | 

   18 17 217 23 Big Boom

over a tcp connection. Events are sent to the server using similar format;

    12 /nick thomas

    7 /move N

    16 /event Honk Horn

Running It

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    python network.py

will run a test that talks to a local erlang "heylooka" server

Install

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I used

http://twistedpairdevelopment.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/installing-pyglet-in-mac-os-x/

for installation on OSX Lion.