I think you're talking about the same thing that Helge had already already pointed out to me, except that you want me to put it in a seperate file? But wouldn't I then have to align my map.3ds with the lights.3ds after I import them into jPCT?

not exactly, i think we were talking about different things.
i couldnt get what you meant by aligning ? those dummy 'light' objects are already positioned in your world. just export the world to map.3ds and lights to lights.3ds
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I'm wondering what the best way would be for me manage this. There's also the question of object placement: Figuring out where to place objects like "Healthpacks" for example.

possibly not best way, but i find this very handy:
i either:
* place dummy objects to mark those positions and save them in a seperate file (like lights.3ds) and then use the center of those objects to place lights
* again place dummy objects but save thier positions with max script (faster loading time and less space)

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egon, can u please add a serial version uid to serializable classes ? it becomes incompatible with the previous version and it breaks loading previously serialized objects. sun suggests it too and it wont hurt for sure

private static final long serialVersionUID = 999L; // or whatever long

of course you can change it in time when it is necessary (such as when internal fields are not backward compatible)

and when did you update the site, i must have missed it. it looks nice :wink:

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if you say so..  

as i know, ack's are only sent in response to other packages, as receipts. if application doesnt send any data, no packages will be transfered. when the socket is closed (either manually or by an application crash) a connection reset or whatever package is sent to notify peer. but i'm not sure, i dont know much about tcp as i said. who cares, as long as java net api's keep this much high level :wink:

p.s. nice to see you people back after summer hiatus

 thx

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since my last post:

* added jump
* some gui impovements and add-ons
* added 'dont see a user' option. (both sides simply dont see each other anymore) this has no take back at the moment so use it carefully ;-)
* added one way (client to server) heart beat mechanism. this is certainly necessary to detect network failures (especially in wireless ones)
* added basic i18n (internationalization) support. translated most parts to turkish but i've noticed that it's really hard to use turkish in computer generated messages :shock: for instance prepositions are in form of suffices which change depending on both wovels and last part of the word :evil:
* changed the way animations are loaded (from pre-serialized data). this takes 25% much space (than 3ds) but loads almost 20 times faster.
* added stand and talk animations (well in fact only the mechanism, animations are dummy). paired animations (like kissing each other) is coming soon. stand by
* prepared a formal business plan. for god's sake, should i ever able to find resources for this project  :roll:

btw, i still think much can be done to decrease the serialized data size (with custom writeObject(..) and readObject(..) methods). even the mesh of a simple cube takes 2.5k space when serialized  :?:

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uml maybe quite useful for some cases. i mean not to use it for code generation or other purposes but use it for planning your program (or parts of it) before starting coding

in general i find drawing diagrams (not necessarily uml)  of ideas extremely useful as it forces one to think in depth and find possible errors, mis-thoughts earlier. as the old preverb suggests 'one diagram worths a thousand words'

in karga, i dont use any uml software but try to take my notes as diagrams on paper

another point i think very important is to make as much tasks done automatically as i can. for instance i use ant not only as a build tool but for copying files, zipping them etc. as humans make errors on these kind of tasks and easily forgot the procedure. and of course it's a real pain and source of discouragement to do the same boring things over and over again

this may be considered as a matter of taste but i also find it very useful and important to throw exceptions from methods (as opposed to returning nulls etc) and make things as much type-safe as possible. this way errors can be detected earlier. i love the idea of using the compiler to its limits to find errors

at a glance these are what i think about software development cycle

i wish you luck with your game :wink:
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oops, forgot to login for post :oops:
and it is a 10x10 tile map. i cant correct it as i posted as guest :oops: