Lawrence Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have no idea at all where those aircraft come from! But I believe I can > answer the last point. The jumping around is because of the way the > multiplayer feature works; it simply transmits coordinates at regular > intervals So the other guys position updates N times a second (I've tried > 10 over a VPN to my mates LAN). Thus the other plane appears to jump > rapidly from point to point in the sky. Of course, it would be cool if it > transmitted velocities as well, thus the other machine could "guess" at > where it is going between updates.
You're describing how the IEEE1278 (DIS) protocol works :-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
