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Openplay

by Jake · in Torque Game Engine · 08/04/2001 (1:39 pm) · 3 replies

I am curious about what the v12 programmers think about Openplay, "...a network abstraction layer designed to simplify the task of creating programs which communicate across multiple computers."

http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/openplay/

With the v12 already posed to be easily ported to various platforms with its support of OpenGl/OpenAl, it seems logical to also support an open api for networking as well.

"How rapidly it is accomplished depends largely on how much the community is willing to invest. If you're interested in helping, please subscribe to the OpenPlay mailing list and let us know."

http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/openplay/faq.html
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Torque Owner David Chait
#1
08/04/2001 (9:04 pm)
OpenPlay really is not needed -- Win, Mac, and Linux networking is up and running and talking to each other, and V12 has its own networking layering/protocol that it uses. OP offers someone without multiplatform, without a communications protocol, to get up and running faster than writing one from scratch. Since V12 has its own communication/management methodology, I don't think 'adding OpenPlay support' is a useful goal. This is, of course, just IMHO.

-d

Jake
#2
08/05/2001 (10:29 am)
Aye definately not useful at the moment, however, abstraction in general allows applications to take advantage of improvements of low level systems as the years go by. For example, Quake2 got quite a speed boost 2 years after development with hardware transform with no application code changes. In this case it should easily provide support for the new IPv6 http://www.ipv6.org/ instead of having to later code support for it, as in Quake1 www.viagenie.qc.ca/en/ipv6/quake/ipv6-quake.shtml

Torque Owner Tim Gift
#3
08/06/2001 (8:43 am)
Haven't looked at it. I'll check it out though, could be interesting.