If v11 brick physics were server sided

[wombo]

What do you think they would be like? Better, worse, different, more features. Who knows?

[Ad Bot]

[tails]

better but more laggy.

[wombo]

true, but why would they be better? In what ways.

[Chrono]

All clients would see them the same, rather than having that likely chance of seeing them differently.
They could also be used for events, damaging, and even walking on them rather than through them, pushing them around.

[Zenthos]

Or they will act like real legos. The whole body of them (say, on a building) will be stuck together until you manage to apply enough force to break one off. You could even use a tool like a physigun to lift the bricks O.o.


Problem with that: There is no grid so building may be a nightmare in some cases.

[WingRider]

Or they will act like real legos. The whole body of them (say, on a building) will be stuck together until you manage to apply enough force to break one off. You could even use a tool like a physigun to lift the bricks O.o.


Problem with that: There is no grid so building may be a nightmare in some cases.

^That would become a little too much like Roblox XD

[jirue]

It would be like roblox, cool but it lags to hell.

[E_net4]

Having server sided physics wouldn't disallow the game to have a grid. On the other side, you'd still get more lag. And note that Torque's physics are even worse than Source's physics.

[Marcem]

Bullet physics are better than both, Blockland uses Bullet.

[Harm94]

As part of the moron lock down, we suggest you lock your topics

[kompressor]

Bricks would frequently jitter and jerk around. They would lag behind your movement and feel bad.

Idiots would turn their physics way up and make everyone lag out. Servers would be much slower.

Try making a stack of 100,000 bricks in your favorite physics engine and see how it does with that.

[Jimmg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT6WSz7Fe4M&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.garagegames.com%2Fcommunity%2Fblogs%2Fview%2F16911&feature=player_embedded
this :D

[Numenor]

Server sided?

What does that mean?

[Chrono]

Means the server processes the physics, which allows to have funcionality, rather than the client just rendering it, and having no functionality.

[Numenor]

So, if i had a button, i press it, then all the bricks explode and fall apart?