Hi, can anyone assist me with an assisgnment I'm working on....it entails coding a basic NPC with the associated networking on C++

[LaylaN]

So I should treat it as a separate entity from the the players' actions?

[SGaist]

That's a bit the goal of a NPC, it's independent of the player and will react based on what they do.

[fcarney]

You might consider making a player object. Then make an npc object that derives from the player object. So it appears like a player to game itself.

[LaylaN]

@SGaist I was having troubles on how to co-ordinate players turns over a network

[LaylaN]

@fcarney Thank you, I will most definitely try that. My issue lies in the actual player co-ordination

[SGaist]

How do you coordinate them locally ?

[LaylaN]

@SGaist I'm currently trying to use QHostAddress with QUdpSocket to allow for multiplayer, however I'm having issues. Sometimes the code builds and sometimes the code crashes. I can't understand why it does this

[SGaist]

This does not answer my question.

That said, why UDP ?

[LaylaN]

Apologies, I'm having troubles on how to approach the coordination (local or otherwise), how would I go about that?

The specifications of my assignment specifies the usage of Udp

[fcarney]

Start with the chat example: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/examples-network.html

[SGaist]

Do you already have the logic of the game working ?
Without that, adding a network layer does not make any sense.