Irrlicht Engine

I found the solution. I noticed that in the stack trace, the last function call from the XCB library was coming back to my executable.

I believe the problem had to do with one of my own function called 'connect' which was being called over the XCB one to connect to the X windowing system. I renamed ...

I'm getting a strange segmentation fault on my createDevice() call. Can anyone help me figure out where the problem is?

The application in question is a client-server (to be made a multiplayer game) application. I have two threads running. The first thread (networking) immediately sleeps until a ...

Thanks for both of your replies! The game I am building is basically something that students can play on the LAN at my school. I'm expecting numbers to be around 30-50 players. That's what I meant by small scale!

Also, with 3D terrain, I don't see any other way except to run all the physics ...

I would like all my physics and collision detection to take place on the server side. I think most probably I will run Irrlicht and Newton on the server and keep sending updates to the players.

For simple rendering of the terrain on the client, I can use a textured version of the server terrain ...

A lot is there to be learnt from writing an MMO!

Thanks egrath! While that might work, I imagine it would take a lot of CPU cycles to loop through every point within a radius in all 3 dimensions. To add to that, it would have to be done for every single player and on every event that is generated by a player.

It also does not address how to find ...

Thanks for that information egrath! I'll take a look at the code!

For now, for a quick prototype, I think I will render the maps into a single huge world on the server (using the NULL device of course) and do all the movements and physics in that world while sending updates to the users.

This ...

I am trying to develop a small scale MMORPG and am having doubts about the map format to use for the levels.

1. While a tile map format is very easy to validate on the server side, the rendering on the client side is very "blocky" and not visually appealing.
2. A quake 3 map format for each map.

I ...