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

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

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

For which game do you need that NPC ?

LaylaN

Hi

I'm trying to design a simple Uno game, put I have no idea how to approach the NPC with multiplayer....I'm not sure if I should approach it as a networking topic or not

SGaist

So you basically need to implement the AI part of the game.

The networking part is completely unrelated to that. It is just a mean for players to join the game. The AI shall not care whether it's playing against local or remote players.

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.