Edemptia net protocol is almost done. Compressed and optimized structures allow client to know where other players are and wich GFX to load/unload (this part is quite well optimized btw). Every X msec, engine ask server some king of sprite list containing position, animation index in internal animation system, orientation&direction according to current position in current map (all players are registered when entering a map and unregistered when leaving). After decompressing and decoding this info (they are pushed in some kind of stack to trace code) here are the engine steps :

- Check actully loaded GFX and compare to needed ones.

- Unload and load GFX according to previous animations and what server told me (”Who can i see ?”).

- Update sprites positions according to positions stack data and prefetch next data according to prediction.

- Flush data

- Empty stack

Ths is the “big idea” of the graphic code for sprites moves.

Now, this doesn’t works. I still have many things to code and to monitor/test. But this project is going to raise, slowly but it will.

BTW, i still looking for a main artist. The one who sent me pictures draws like a 5 years old.

I need to code strong tools and classes to continue to bring MMO idea to life.

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