Irrlicht Engine

Okay so this is not very much Irrlcht related...
I'm trying to make a MMORPG using Irrlicht and Raknet.
Its going preety well but I'm not shure my way of getting messages from the server and vice-versa is the best. I'm using a lot of if's and message indentifiers and stuff like that.
Do any of you know some books/sites that might help me out?
And please don't tell me I need more experience. I've been programming games for a lot of time...(altough I'm new to Irrlicht and RakNet)
Thank you

RakNet's RPC mechanism is quite neat. Are you using that?

Perhaps if you post some sample code, we could suggest specific improvements.

rpc is a bit slow to handle such networking stuff.

read the tutorials from raknet on rakkarsoft.com and use bitstreams

In what way is RakNet's RPC mechanism slower than doing a big switch() / if() yourself? Have you looked at the implementation?

no i haven`t looked into implementation, I`ve tested and used the RPC and Bitstream parts of raknet.

Can you be a bit more specific about how RakNet RPC is "a bit slow"? I'm really not sure what would lead you that conclusion, or what metric you're using.

hmm i don't know how to explain.
I mean i can hanlde more packets per second when i use bitstreams.

psyco001 wrote:hmm i don't know how to explain.
I mean i can hanlde more packets per second when i use bitstreams.

How many more?

bitstream was 2 times faster when i've used it for practice.

That's... astonishing. Thanks, I'll be sure to look into that.