Flicker cog.. Need some insight

[Shred18]

Ok, I've got a skybox 3do that goes around my entire level. All sky surfaces are flagged to geo 0. The 3do basically blocks out the hom from the level. But it needs a flicker cog to render, since it spans multiple sectors. Not a problem, Iv'e done this before.

This time, I've run into a problem where the player being on the surface of water, will not render the 3do. So I fixed it by getting the sector of a point just above the player (the view sector, thanks to Sige for the code :D )

Now here's where the craziness starts. It works perfect for the host, but a client joining the game will hom like crazy. I think its not getting the right sector for the client (as ocassionally the sky will show up, untill you move from a "stable" sector)

I also just added "nolink" to the flicker things... I'm not 100% sure what thats for :p anyway, here is the cog:


flags=0x240

symbols

int ObjCount local

thing ObjThng0 nolink
thing ObjThng1 nolink
thing ObjThng2 nolink
thing ObjThng3 nolink
thing ObjThng4 nolink
thing ObjThng5 nolink
thing ObjThng6 nolink
thing ObjThng7 nolink
thing ObjThng8 nolink
thing ObjThng9 nolink
int running=0 local
int sectorid local
int sectorcount local
int surfacecount local
int s local
int f local
flex dot1 local
flex dot2 local
vector testpt local

template ObjTpl0 local
template ObjTpl1 local
template ObjTpl2 local
template ObjTpl3 local
template ObjTpl4 local
template ObjTpl5 local
template ObjTpl6 local
template ObjTpl7 local
template ObjTpl8 local
template ObjTpl9 local

vector ObjPos0 local
vector ObjPos1 local
vector ObjPos2 local
vector ObjPos3 local
vector ObjPos4 local
vector ObjPos5 local
vector ObjPos6 local
vector ObjPos7 local
vector ObjPos8 local
vector ObjPos9 local

vector ObjLook0 local
vector ObjLook1 local
vector ObjLook2 local
vector ObjLook3 local
vector ObjLook4 local
vector ObjLook5 local
vector ObjLook6 local
vector ObjLook7 local
vector ObjLook8 local
vector ObjLook9 local

message newplayer
message pulse

end

code

newplayer:

//Sleep while the level loads
sleep(0.25);

player=GetLocalPlayerThing();

ObjCount=0;

for(x=0; x<10; x=x+1)
{if(ObjThng0[x] != -1) ObjCount=ObjCount+1;}

//Get the rotation and position and template of the object

for(x=0; x<ObjCount; x=x+1)
{
ObjPos0[x]=GetThingPos(ObjThng0[x]);
ObjLook0[x]=GetThingLVec(ObjThng0[x]);
ObjTpl0[x]=GetThingTemplate(ObjThng0[x]);
}

//Start our pulse
SetPulse(0.01);

return;

pulse:

testpt = VectorAdd(GetThingPos(player), VectorSet(0,0,0.037)); //actual camera position vector

sectorid = -1;
sectorcount = GetSectorCount();
for (s = 0; s < sectorcount; s = s + 1)
{
surfacecount = GetNumSectorSurfaces(s);
for (f = 0; f < surfacecount; f = f + 1)
{
dot1 = VectorDot(testpt, GetSurfaceNormal(GetSectorSurfaceRef(s, f)));
dot2 = VectorDot(GetSurfaceVertexPos(GetSectorSurfaceRef( s, f), 0), GetSurfaceNormal(GetSectorSurfaceRef(s, f)));
// outside of the sector
if (dot1 < dot2)
{
f = 9999999;
}
}
if (f != 10000000)
{
sectorid = s;
s = 9999999;
}
}

for(x=0; x<ObjCount; x=x+1)
{

//Printint(GetThingSector(Player));
//Printint(sectorid);
//Printint(ObjThng0[x]);
//Destroy the 3do
DestroyThing(ObjThng0[x]);

//Recreate the 3do
ObjThng0[x]=CreateThingAtPos(ObjTpl0[x], sectorid, ObjPos0[x], ObjLook0[x]);

SetThingLook(ObjThng0[x], ObjLook0[x]);

}

return;

end

[Shred18]

Fixed it :D

I figured out that since the level object wasn't local, the host would join the game, and start delete/creating the template, and when the client joined, the object had already been deleted, so it had nothing to delete/create.

I made the object local, then created the template on startup, problem solved :)