Sapphire Project

[dnifan]

Implemented Ping Server to check whether server is up, and wrote a little PHP script to do some nice stuff. Also, I added a configuration file to setup multiple aspects of the daemon. It's close to release now.

[norhart]

Playing games over the internet in a game that plays over the internet... sick...

[alfie275]

What about free falls socket radio isn't it the same as your describing?

[dnifan]

No, his 'inter-server communication' is done with sockets. This is a way to store values on a central server and retrieve them using several lua commands. Not the same, however, you can recreate the concept of the 'socket radio'. (There are more possibilities with Sapphire though)

[thedood]

Is there a video? This sounds awesome!

[Free Fall]

No, his 'inter-server communication' is done with sockets. This is a way to store values on a central server and retrieve them using several lua commands. Not the same, however, you can recreate the concept of the 'socket radio'. (There are more possibilities with Sapphire though)

How can you receive data from a server without sockets? Is this working over http or what are you using?

(I'm slowly getting interested in this project)

[dnifan]

How can you receive data from a server without sockets? Is this working over http or what are you using?

(I'm slowly getting interested in this project)

It is using sockets, but NOT LuaSocket. I wrote a DLL and did the networking in the DLL itself and made a easy-to-use Lua interface for it

[-=Fox=-]

Sounds impressive.

The WSR is mainly a "Peer-to-Peer" system, although one can setup a system of Hubs, write some CPU/E-Gate Code and integrate the system. It can be done.

A couple of Questions;

1a.) Are you proposing something like a Data Server for Wire Data?
1b.) Why only 256KBs? Why not 1 MB?

2.) What protocols can you work with? (UDP, HTTP, Custom? etc.)

3.) If your not using Lua Sockets AND you integrated the Networking within the DLL itself does that mean we would just have to pop in the Lua Integration file and the DLL and we'd be set to go?

4.) Can you see a potential Performance Benefit using this over Lua Sockets?

[andy1976uk]

Blackphoenix, Dnifan, Free-fall....examples of man as God if ever there were any.

Ok, another 1 closer to 1K, hehehe, I'm gonna beat you Fox

[dnifan]

Sounds impressive.

The WSR is mainly a "Peer-to-Peer" system, although one can setup a system of Hubs, write some CPU/E-Gate Code and integrate the system. It can be done.

A couple of Questions;

1a.) Are you proposing something like a Data Server for Wire Data?
Yes, that is exactly what it is!
1b.) Why only 256KBs? Why not 1 MB?
In fact, data is stored as 1MB, as 1 'float' (the type of data Lua uses) is 4 bytes. and 256 * 4 = 1 MB. So, what if I gave 1MB in floats; the actual disk/RAM usage would be 4 MB. Which is also disastrous for the hoster; if all 256 clients are connected at the same time, it would take up 1 GB of RAM.

2.) What protocols can you work with? (UDP, HTTP, Custom? etc.)
Users of Sapphire have no business with protocols, they just use sapphire.Write() and sapphire.Read(). However, the DLL uses TCP..

3.) If your not using Lua Sockets AND you integrated the Networking within the DLL itself does that mean we would just have to pop in the Lua Integration file and the DLL and we'd be set to go?
Yep.

4.) Can you see a potential Performance Benefit using this over Lua Sockets?
I think so, yes, as the server itself is hosted as a stand-alone application on a other server machine and not in Garry's Mod + Lua. SapphireServer is written in C and therefore faster than Lua.

Also, Andy, thanks for the compliment lol!