Noone has done it?? On 6/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently tried to tackle adding prediction to vehicles and wound up > finding it was a more difficult task than I realized. I've heard the > issue discussed several times before so I'm hoping someone has > accomplished it by now and can provide some wisdom on my problem. > > I ported the four wheel server side physics code to the client and its > creation within the vehicle's spawn to where everything seems to be > identical on the client, all wheels get posed correctly and the vehicle > physics object gets control inputs and responds. My problem is that the > client side physics vehicle doesn't respond very closely to the server > side physics of the vehicle at all. After driving for even just a few > seconds the client and server positions of the vehicle physics object get > very mismatched. I tried sending all of the control inputs to the client > and use those to input into the vehicle physics after every packet update > which helped somewhat. The absolute origin of the vehicle entity and the > position of the physics object don't match up at all. I assumed that I > would need to put the physics object's position or maybe even more info > about it in the prediction table so that it gets saved and reverted with > every update, but I'm not exactly sure how to do that since the interface > to it is limited. Even if I did do that, what good is predicting the > vehicle if it's not going to be a very accurate prediction at all? > > Am I even on the right track? I was thinking maybe even predicting the > physics is overkill, and I should just predict the vehicle continuing on a > straight path between updates with little to no input. Is there any sort > of article out there explaining prediction in depth? > > I'd appreciate any advice at all. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > >
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