Instances

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Instances within Lunar describes an interior that is networked. For example rooms, interiors, dungeons, etc. They exist within a world.

As such a few issues come up:

• worldFrom should it still be loaded and receiving/updating data?
  • If not, when entering the instance it could be slow to load back in. This could be combated with a loading screen but may not be desirable.
• Should probably intiliaze a new LunarWorld but a very barebones implementation to prevent too many resources being used from a simple interior.

Client Design

• Simple implementation of LunarWorldSkeleton.
  • Separate box2d world and entity/player lists.
  • worldFrom should probably stop updating itself while in interior, implement some kind of lock/pause state for that.
    • (unless desired)
  • Network server should send packets indicating a player has enter the interior, not the parent world.
  • Possibly include a max player capacity for interiors (configurable) (eg. "This room is already full")
  • Will need interior spawn flag and events.
  • Once player leaves interior, keep the interior around in memory until they walk X distance away? (configurable)
    • Alt, X seconds after destroy, or, destroy immediately depending on how large the interior is.
  • If player gets within X distance of interior, load it in depending on how large it is? (configurable)
  • Remove player from parent world, once left, add them back.

Server Design

• remove player from parent world. Once left, add them back.
• Max player capacity for interiors. (configurable)
• Only send the player updates from within the interior, not from whole world.
• ...

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Current progress as of dcd18f6

• Added base Instance classes that extend their respective worlds from client and server
• Added protocol infrastructure to support entering instances
• Added a new method for handling creating new Box2d bodies (EntityBodyHandler) and (EntityBodyCreator)
  • This allows for multiple bodies to be created for when entering instances and worlds

TODO:

• We need to separate worlds and instances more, its all too cluttered and confusing to understand where data is going.
• Server needs to be heavly refactored, janky and cluttery mess of code.
• Instances need more work and implement the configuration values for them
• Leaving instances, and other actions within them.
• ...

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