To be very clear Dennis; I understand perfectly the limitations of the netcode.

What are the best methods the community has come up with?

Right now the best I've done is a modified method of Kirby's: attaching/detaching of vehicles with biped models. My modification was running it on a Combat Evolved dedicated server; this allowed the hosted map to contain the scripts and the client maps to have no spawning scripts.

This prevented all dummyl bipeds or ghost ai.


I saw in a thread an Altis method, no description however. I've heard of Kirby say he used particles or something instead of vehicle models.

What else is out there that will sync AI position and orientation? Anything new?


Edit: Also what are the object limits for kirby's method? How many AI can it contain at a time? I'm interested in applying something as a CoOp version of my New Mpmbasa mod, alongside the SP version. The way the map is designed makes it possible to implement with some heavy modifications. The spawning is 100% script based as is.
Edited by DeadHamster on Jan 31, 2017 at 08:59 PM

Convince this guy to release his thing, it is the best method.

http://opencarnage.net/index.php?/topic/5231-syncing-biped-location/&do=findComment&comment=72339

http://opencarnage.net/index.php?/topic/6099-proof-of-concept-fixing-the-console-fade-time/#comment-83228

Otherwise there is altis' zombie syncing thing using sapp lua scripting.

My method is similar to Kirby's, it just spawns vehicles on the biped constantly. It's not an efficient way of syncing AI but you can sync up to 150 AI.

I like how all of the Scenyx community's modding secrets died with it. If you catch my drift

Bit of an oversight.
Edited by OrangeJuice on Feb 1, 2017 at 03:58 AM

I had no idea this was even a thing

Things like this make me feel sad

Was never there and don't catch your drift unfortunately. Not sure what 'secrets' there are to modding.

If it's something that can help, please clue me in or send a PM if it can't be public.

There are a lot of secrets that were "hidden" strictly so other people wouldn't have access to create new content.

Those type of forums strictly shunned those who didn't know a lick of modding. IIRC there was a mediafire or github somehere with a ce pc multiplayer prototype, but it was nothing but numbers and a couple ai on bloodgulch, probably the scripts from xbox's halo at work.

Here's a small update on my method https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmYJTnL5eVE. Now I synced the fake biped velocities which makes them look much smoother. I don't think you could find a better way of syncing AI without client mods.

I am not the one you need to convince. Reality has already asserted itself on the matter.

This is a very dumb question but can we copy the netcode from the xbox version to put it in the PC version?

there is no netcode in the xbox version.

Dennis changed his avatar everyone.

Saw it too, 2001 a space oddysee I think

Oh thought it was Stargate. (I'm a sci-fi pleb leave me alone!)

Someone needs to make a change log thread logging all of Dennis's various activities ranging from avatar changes, funny quotes, bans and the like.

And the websites he visits. We can get to know him quite intimately...

If it is really of interest then here are a few from today:

http://www.courant.com/
https://focusfusion.org/
https://www.nytimes.com/
https://www.facebook.com/
http://www.dell.com/en-us/
http://forum.halomaps.org/
https://www.congress.gov/
http://www.tvguide.com/listings/
http://www.imdb.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
https://xkcd.com/
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/
https://www.engadget.com/
https://www.google.com/

Eyy sparks.

Didn't you like
leave forever
or something

I think if anything this goes to show that you can never truly leave HMF.

Can confirm, am still here.

I remember when there were so many posts on this subject it wasn't even funny.

Oh that's cool. I remember a few years ago I'd have a pelican drop the player off (though working with recorded animations was an absolute pain).

Maybe I can do that again. There's a better version of the animation recorder thing, right?