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Lazy · **Supporting more than one player on the client -** 05-12-2004

A few days ago I got an idea to allow upto 4 players to play half-life on one machine at the same time.
The view would be split either half/half or into fours depending on how many people are active at the time.
So far I have it able to render the 4 views while putting inactive ones out of map bounds and looking down to keep up the framerate.

I realize almost all of the network messages have to be changed aswell as saving/loading, ect but I have run into an odd situation.

How can I have extra players on the client control their players on the server?
I've thought about:

- TCP/IP Sockets
- Shared memory area
- Sending commands containing information ( ugly, I know )

What would any of you do to get the angles/buttons/ect to the server?

Note: This would have no online capability but would support co-op and deathmatch locally.

Added before submit: Wrong place? It still has to do with the sdk... bah, I'm confused.

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Lazy Member Status: Offline Posts: 236 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Supporting more than one player on the client - 05-12-2004 A few days ago I got an idea to allow upto 4 players to play half-life on one machine at the same time. The view would be split either half/half or into fours depending on how many people are active at the time. So far I have it able to render the 4 views while putting inactive ones out of map bounds and looking down to keep up the framerate. I realize almost all of the network messages have to be changed aswell as saving/loading, ect but I have run into an odd situation. How can I have extra players on the client control their players on the server? I've thought about: - TCP/IP Sockets - Shared memory area - Sending commands containing information ( ugly, I know ) What would any of you do to get the angles/buttons/ect to the server? Note: This would have no online capability but would support co-op and deathmatch locally. Added before submit: Wrong place? It still has to do with the sdk... bah, I'm confused.