RTB Development

[TomTheGeek]

Not everyone has a mic and some people will scream and blow our eardrums.

Squideey will.

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[Chrono]

XMPP has a in development voice support I belive (The last time I used Pidgin) and Tribes 2, Blockland's base engine, has voice support as well.

It COULD be possible with an engine change, or else it isn't possible with v16.

RTB isn't using XMPP anymore.

[TomTheGeek]

RTB isn't using XMPP anymore.

That's what I thought. I read something later in the topic but I wasn't sure.

[Chrono]

Also, if it's just for friend chats it should be fine.

[Wedge]

If you're already forwarding ports for Blockland you might as well forward another port for a ventrillo or mumble server as well.

[Ephialtes]

The version of TGE that Blockland uses has no support for microphone capture (or any support for anything else voice chat would need) so voice chat won't be happening. I doubt I'd want to inflict such a thing on the community either.

[General]

I've realised that this had not gotten any attention at the topic in Add-Ons. Then again, it was silly of me to post it there instead of here.

[Ephialtes]

Little progress update on the weekend's developments.

I've finished the friends list and private room portions of the chat server now, and also integrated that into the RTB database. The things left to do are authentication (leaving this until last because I'm developing locally, but it won't take long at all), sorting friends into groups, and messaging which is also relatively simple. Fun bits then include some security and secret management commands and then I'm going to profile and load test it and see where we stand after that.

Then we move onto the chat client which is a bit harder. The friends list part of the interface is complete and just requires a few small changes to get it working with the new server, then there's just the messaging interface which shouldn't be too hard. As you can see from the screenshots, a bunch of the work chat client is already done.

[shaafs]

a friend list? now i can finally see if my friends are online whitout checking in the irc! cant wait 

[Spikeman]

When beta testing comes out, will all beta testers be listed in the credits for RTB4?

[Ephialtes]

No

[Spikeman]

Do you know when the beta testing could possibly come? I have school coming up in the middle of August and I don't want to miss out.

[Christopher P.]

Why not have a MUSIC Manager? :P

Just like the mod manager except it has 4 groups.

Custom - Music that was custom made for blockland by players
Real - Real songs shorten and looped for blockland

Other - Songs that don't belong in any group
Failed - Songs that did not work or were too crappy

[Alphadin]

-snip-

Mosts songs are stuffty on blockland that does not use blockland default sounds/songs.
Songs need to fit the Digital theme, and Blockland sound Theme or it's stuff.

[Killer2]

Mosts songs are stuffty on blockland that does not use blockland default sounds/songs.
Songs need to fit the Digital theme, and Blockland sound Theme or it's stuff.

Not unless it's for the Advanced Music Player and etc.

Or it could be on like a radio you made.