{"id":240,"date":"2018-05-30T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2018-05-30T09:10:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:10:03","slug":"piggies-in-a-ditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/30\/piggies-in-a-ditch\/","title":{"rendered":"Piggies in a ditch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s screenshot showing the boars following the terrain as they move around:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’ve been thinking about how I want to do things like this.\u00a0 Specifically, how much I want the client to control the world, and how much the server should control.\u00a0 Right now the server only keeps up with the x and z coordinates of each boar.\u00a0 The client (browser) then takes those coordinates and figures out the terrain’s height at that point, then draws the boar there.\u00a0 I’m doing it this way because determining the terrain’s height requires access to the terrain data as well as the THREE.js raycasting function, and giving the server access to that information would make it much more complicated so I just haven’t done it yet.\u00a0 This probably isn’t a workable scheme in the long run.\u00a0 Soon enough I’ll want players to be able to attack the boars, but to do that I’ll need to know if the boar is within the player’s attack range, which will require definitive information about the boar and player’s x, y, and z positions.\u00a0 In order to prevent cheating or otherwise messing with the game, I think I’m going to have to assume the client is completely untrustworthy.\u00a0 It’s basically a terminal that displays what the server tells it to.<\/p>\n

This is, of course, not the final answer on this topic.\u00a0 It’s something I will need to do much more research and testing on because I’m making some significant assumptions to come up with the conclusion above.\u00a0 But for now the boars roam around on the terrain and everyone is happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s screenshot showing the boars following the terrain as they move around: I’ve been thinking about how I want to do things like this.\u00a0 Specifically, how much I want the client to control the world, and how much the server should control.\u00a0 Right now the server only keeps up with the x and z coordinates…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning-and-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chroniclesoftright.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}