Hi

Is it possible to use logic without graphics?
I want to make application that will only calculate some moves of two npcs and show their locations in console output. I dont want to render and show anything else than windows console.

Lets say i want to make dedicated server for my game, is it possible?

Yes... add a return false to the Init() function to prevent the shader 2.0 error message.. and write your own int main() function...

However.. when it comes to dedicated server.. your going to run into a big problem.. you wont be able to do physics testing on ther server ( which is how esenthel does its collision detection)...

Anyone know a way to have esenthel be able to run physics tests w/o initializing the graphcis engine?

Thanks for Your reply, and for tip.

As I think about mp in Mech Tournament I wonder is there any way to run Phys without initializing graphics engine.
If it's not - is there easy to do enough that it can be added within few weeks?
It's not only about server performance (doing nothing in draw() function should be ok) but I can't run two Esenthel base programs at once what means I can run either server or client which is not nice in testing.

why you can't run two EE programs?

Maybay it's slow when he runs to EE programs in the same time.

Why dont use APP_NO_FX?

Or am i missing the point here? 0.o


~Dynad

(05-21-2010 04:53 PM)Esenthel Wrote:  why you can't run two EE programs?

Did you change anything? Some time ago when I tried to run ME or WE and my game it didn't want to start (I can't remember whole error but it was something like 'can't initialize...blablabla....shader....blablabla').
I tried APP_NO_FX and to be honest I can't see much difference between that and simple not calling Render function. But I think 300 fps on my 8 years old PC is quite enough.

Then i just don't get it what the problem is...