Monday update

Today was spent working on reliable user interface for network client/server connections. There are lots of possible states, more so that other game elements. At the least it became apparent I need to add some additional items to the top of the screen:

• Current world time
• Mission Time (as offset of world time)
• Connection status indicators (connecting/connected/ping status)

These to sit alongside the current game mode, camera mode and have a suitable background image.

Testing is proving difficult logistically. I would like a fairly inexpensive second PC with small form factor capable of running the Leadwerks engine at a reasonable speed. Something that can sit on top of/or next to my main PC.

Password protection seems to work with servers rejecting connections appropriately.


Facebook

I'm told everyone and their app has a Facebook page so here is the Combat-Helo Facebook entry. There is something of a virtual Apache walk-around with an internal one coming later, a collection of screen-shots in the galleries so you don't have to hunt around for them.