Originally Posted by greggiles (Post 1698627)

I know what your saying, but as far as development goes, is there a certain way things should be scripted?

Originally Posted by greggiles (Post 1698627)

I know what your saying, but as far as development goes, is there a certain way things should be scripted?

Originally Posted by cbk1994 (Post 1698634)

There are some general common-sense guidelines for lots of players, and some specific things to keep in mind on mobile devices as well:

• Use as few timeouts as possible. Try using scheduleevent when you need to schedule something, but avoid 0.05 second scheduled events, too.
• Use the default movement system.
• Avoid as much scripting as possible in level NPCs.
• Avoid as much scripting as possible in general.
• Set player.ani directly instead of using setAni. This only works on v6/iPhone.
• Design everything to be run by touch.
• Keep in mind that there are multiple mice (contact points with fingers) and use the mouse ID included in touch events.
• Use clientstats aggressively to profile your scripts.
• Use as few timeouts as possible.
• Use the new transitions in v6 when possible.
• Use as few client/clientr variables as possible. If it's only needed serverside, store it in a player. variable.
• Avoid quirky things like joining classes to the player clientside.
• Do as many things serverside as possible.
• Avoid triggers where possible for things that can be done serverside entirely (e.g. healing player while in a bed).
• Avoid abusing SQLite. With so many players, you need to be careful not to use too many queries.
• Avoid writing to files. Use player attributes to store stuff when possible.
• Use as few timeouts as possible.

Originally Posted by Emera (Post 1698660)

Era iPhone and Delteria iPhone both use custom movement systems, and it doesn't have any performance impacts at all. It just makes movement smoother.

Originally Posted by cbk1994 (Post 1698661)

I just checked and you're right about Era iPhone. I based my recommendation on what Stefan told me a while back.

Not sure what you mean by "makes movement smoother". You can certainly make movement faster or slower but smoother would require running at a higher framerate than the default movement system, which isn't possible (and wouldn't matter, since the game still renders at 20 FPS).



I'm not sure what you're saying here. If players could easily manipulate "the serverside", it would be a very good day for hackers.

A lot of things are handled via requestText and similar functions, but by no means have triggers been disabled. I just tested the systems on Kingdoms iPhone again on my iPhone, and our triggers are working fine.

Keep in mind that you cannot actually trigger classes, even on PC Graal. Perhaps this is the source of your confusion?

Originally Posted by Emera (Post 1698662)

I don't really know as much as I'd like to about how iDevices can easily manipulate the serverside, but because of it, iPhone servers use a special way of contacting the serverside so players are unable to manipulate the serverside, or make it very hard for them to do so.

Originally Posted by Emera (Post 1698662)

The reason we use a custom movement system is because it can offer a lot more features that the default system can't, and we can tweak it as we please to give smoother movement results, like speed setting, combination with the item and weapon systems, etc.

Originally Posted by Chompy (Post 1698723)

Classic iPhone uses both the default and a custom movement system. Switches when needed.

Originally Posted by Emera (Post 1698620)

I don't think there's any official steps. You'll have to get Stefan and co interested for starters.