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Flash Multiplayer Virtual Worlds
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Flash Multiplayer Virtual Worlds

by Makzan Makzan (Mak Seng Hin)
August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
8h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Moving the avatar

There are two ways to tell the avatar to walk. Either input by pressing the arrows keys or clicking on the destination point by mouse.

Which method is better? We need to consider both the game play and the network synchronization.

The game play of the virtual world is our first consideration. A virtual world with fighting theme requires players to stick on the keyboard to walk and create key combination attack. On the other hand, our virtual world focuses on social interaction so that mouse input will be the main use.

Movement synchronization

When moving the avatars by keyboard, we may keep sending the "move right" command until the right arrow key is released. In this case, the client broadcasts many same messages to synchronize ...

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