Your technology needs help... lots of help... lots and LOTS of help. :(

As much as I admire the effort the OP put into their post, and clearly they seem quite passionate, I think they show very little appreciation for the realities of game development. I've worked in the industry for over ten years myself, it is a rare situation where developers either have the time or the resources to really shine technically at all levels. I've worked for some of the best companies in the industry, and I've seen plenty of awful code and I've even written some myself.

Having a good technical strategy comes down to experience, and you only get experience by researching and solving problems. While some solutions may meet the requirements of a project, they are by no means the best solutions, and any good developer will tell you how many times they wish they could go back and rewrite systems. But game developers, who work hard enough with often demanding schedules, don't always have the luxury of unwinding their mistakes. Sooner or later the game has to ship.

I don't know anyone who worked on this game personally, so I can't vouch for their technical prowess. But I can say that it is easy to criticize technology and offer solutions based on anecdotal analyses, and quite another to be knee deep in the project, facing the realities of a huge project with lots of dependencies and technical hurdles, as well as team politics, which I could seriously write a book about.

Anyway, good luck to the OP. And good luck BW. I'm enjoying the game.

Now with numbers!

http://www.swtor.com/community/showt...40#post4176540

The physics engine in the SW:TOR client appears to be authoritative regarding movement. This means that if I jump, the client broadcasts data every single video frame until I land on the ground again.

BW please hire this guy, he knows what he is talking about.

no he doesnt know anything at all, he just blabbing nonsense. his blabber filled with tech jargon that will make layman think he know something grand, but to a real programmer his talk is just that .. a clueless person pretending to know everything..

Are you a developer? Cause I am, albeit not a games developer, and what he says does explain a lot of things.

Incidentally, I did do test of one of his assertions (the physics engine being responsible for sending out player location data) via tcpdump and jumping and it does appear that this is indeed the case.

Incidentally, I did do test of one of his assertions (the physics engine being responsible for sending out player location data) via tcpdump and jumping and it does appear that this is indeed the case.

the question should be directed to HeroEngine guys since they are the one making the low level parts of the engine, not bioware as the user.

in my line of work , i never modify the core SDK or any low level Engine parts (if its even modifiable by licensee) because to modify SDK / Low Level parts means upgrade nightmare when your custom low level codes get mixed up with the new Engine update..

“It’s not productized yet,” we told Gordon. “There are whole sections of code that is only roughed in and not optimized for performance or security. And there are very few comments and very little documentation.”

He didn’t care. “We are going to have tons of engineers. We can finish it ourselves. We’re going to want to modify your source code for our special project anyway.”

the question should be directed to HeroEngine guys since they are the one making the low level parts of the engine, not bioware as the user.

in my line of work , i never modify the core SDK or any low level Engine parts (if its even modifiable by licensee) because to modify SDK / Low Level parts means upgrade nightmare when your custom low level codes get mixed up with the new Engine update..