[CF-Devel] client cpl.ob.face at the start

[Michael Toennies]

Hi

Ohm, its much more simple: in the struct who describe the
player is a field cpl.ob.face what is the face of the 
player char (because all objects in cf use the same struct).

I blt it before the player name in the data windows of the client.
Its more cosmetical than useful. 

Fact is, that the field is not right set by the server any more, 
with the old windows client and without the race patch, all works fine.

I want use it for some other functions, perhaps to show face and name in
the <tell> window or so.

Michael

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      Wedel
     
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      Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 5:27 AM
     
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      To: Michael Toennies
     
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      Subject: Re: [CF-Devel] client cpl.ob.face at the start
     
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       The X11 client doesn't actually draw an image of the player 
     
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      anyplace other than
     
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      the game map, so I think that was an addition in the windows client.
     
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       However, as I move around in the game map, the figure does 
     
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      change his facing to
     
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      be north, east, west, etc.
     
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       Now best of what I recall, the server does not explicitly tell 
     
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      the client what
     
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      facing the character has - the space in the center of the map 
     
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      that the character
     
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      is drawn on is drawn just like all the other spaces.
     
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       One way you could try and get this information is always take 
     
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      the center image
     
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      of the map (check the image number), and use that for your icon 
     
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      near the stats I
     
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      guess.  Do some checking like it is within 10 of the the first 
     
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      one you got so
     
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      that you don't draw a fireball instead of the player image (this 
     
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      logic is still
     
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      not perfect, because for example I would guess that the fireborn 
     
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      might be close
     
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      enough to fireball to get within that 10 bracket).
     
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       If you are using image caching, you can be a bit more sure by 
     
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      checking that the
     
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      basename (ie, everything before the 111 or 151 or other suffix) 
     
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      is the same.
     
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       The protocol could also be extended to include this information - would
     
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      probably make the most sense to put it in the 'stats' command, as that is
     
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      already smart enough to only be sent if information is changed.  
     
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      I'm not sure
     
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      how important a feature this however.
     
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