Kriss
Snowman
How a function that allow others to send custom skins to the others while they join?
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I think this would fall into the same category as sending ships over OMP, so if i'm buzzing around in my Mark II Whozamacall it, other people will see the correct ship. The problem is that not all authors would want their stuff distributed this way.How a function that allow others to send custom skins to the others while they join?
Kriss
Snowman
How about just adding the ships classes to the file names?. that they had to be downloaded at the first instance before loading all the classes
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Hello, since we aren't able to travel at timewarp, could you not just get the orbits of other planets to stop?, and just align them, so that everyone just needed to go a single direction for all the planets. and have like a solar system chart
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Hello, since we aren't able to travel at timewarp, could you not just get the orbits of other planets to stop?, and just align them, so that everyone just needed to go a single direction for all the planets. and have like a solar system chart
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ex-orbinaut
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Don't know about all that, but I will certainly have a pint of what your having, my mate!
A few of months ago most of the planets were lined up in a very narrow "wedge", which is a bit like the situation you propose. Cannot remeber the month, let alone the dates, but try setting dates earlier this year in Orbiter. Just remember that the trips take a long time and the planetary situation changes quickly, by comparison to the duration of the trip itself. TransX or IMFD will help you steer the correct trajectories to the planets...
All the best.
A few of months ago most of the planets were lined up in a very narrow "wedge", which is a bit like the situation you propose. Cannot remeber the month, let alone the dates, but try setting dates earlier this year in Orbiter. Just remember that the trips take a long time and the planetary situation changes quickly, by comparison to the duration of the trip itself. TransX or IMFD will help you steer the correct trajectories to the planets...
All the best.
Kriss
Snowman
Solution to the rotationproblem
Hello! I had an idea.
When having the planets not rotate, what about just making the ship move as if they were rotating locally?.
Hello! I had an idea.
When having the planets not rotate, what about just making the ship move as if they were rotating locally?.
Kriss
Snowman
Ports
- TCP and UDP ports lister for incomming and outgoing traffic.
- UPNP support and automatic Windows firewall extension.
- Port checker (Does these ports work) button.
Further:
- Grid networking (allow other users to transmit clients multiple by selection)
- Users online dump file/html.
- Connection logs
- Encryption
Face
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If you mean a list of all ports used by the system I'd propose the use of netstat. If you mean a list of all ports important to a server/client, you are specifying those ports yourself in the appropriate config file.
Universal Plug'n'Play is a potential security breach IMHO. I will not let OMP open ports or modify firewalls automatically. Period.
Please elaborate. What exactly should a port checker do?
Please elaborate. What do you mean with "transmit clients multiple by selection"?
Please elaborate. How should this look like? Dumping "\ls" to a file in HTML format, or what?
If you mean a log of all connections done, you can edit your log4net configuration to log the TCP logger to a file. You can even log all UDP packets sent to a file.
Please elaborate. What do you want encrypted, and why?
regards,
Face
Kriss
Snowman
UPNP is used by serveral popular softwares today. Who cares about super security anyways? It would just be better if things were made easier for everyone that wanted to use OMP.
Mostly the routers that have this feature also have the feature to enable or disable it.
A port checker is a "test connection" that would test the port if they were working. It's just like having the server answering " Your ports are working". If not, that it would tell what ports it didn't work on. If it were inbound or outbound traffic from the client.
I'm sure you are working on solutions to this already. But what if we could choose to radio/transmit other people connected to omp. Like they were given a identity by the server. And that we could transmit their coordinates (almost like GPS) with codes so that others couldn't make false readings or others, or that it was also checked by the server trackings, that it wasn't much out of range with that.
When working with OMP i notice that sometimes some clients can see eachother, but others can't. What if someone could transmit people by their chosing from their own ports. At the same time that is.
Yes. Just a simple file dump. HTML would be good also.
Would be great with some help on this matter
If people want security with one another, they could add encryption, so that only the ones with that code are able to get into their "private network" within the server.
It's merely suggestions, Of course you can consider and choose what you want to integrate into your own project.
Kriss
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So you want to encrypt traffic that doesn't need to be encrypted yet you are happy to allow UPNP to basically open up your firewall...
UPNP is a dangerous protocol, it has been the subject of several serious security holes in the past year. I always disable it.
It's not "super security" but basic security and who cares about it? Well, I do for one.
RisingFury
OBSP developer
Only as seen in the sky. In reality, the situation was much different. Planets cannot align, not even roughly, because some are bound in resonance with others...
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ex-orbinaut
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A bit like one of those anecdotes the profs told us in mech engineering, something about certain combinations of odd toothed pinions? It is a very faded memory, as I chose a different career eventually and all of those jewels slowly got transferred to the mental trashcan in time. I am not even sure if I am recalling it right now, but you jogged my memory...
However, most of the (outer) planets "appeared" in a common section of the sky from here, but yeah, granted they would not have lined up on a straight edge!:tiphat:
Face
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So you mean a mechanism that checks if a given UDP port is reachable from outside? Like STUN?
If you mean that clients should be able to relay state-vector packets to other clients: No, I'm not working on that. I don't understand the advantage of such a feature, either.
I think you are trying to counter symptoms with that rather than curing the disease... and the disease is faulty UDP connection.
What should this be good for?
Check out log4net documentation.Would be great with some help on this matter
...or they instruct the server to simply send group information only to "selected" clients. I don't get the need for encryption here...
regards,
Face
Kriss
Snowman
Yes, very similar to the STUN. But only that the clients could get this result without having to open up the graphical orbiter.
You may be right. It was just a thought. But in the future when there would be much activity. And if one were serving allot of things, and he had troubles with his BW, Then it could atleast be good for this person to get help for the serving of all the elements.
Is this a feature that already exists?. If so, how can it be used??
Originally Posted by Kriss
So that I could make it more easily for others to see whos online. Perhaps even through the server HQ here.
Kriss
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RisingFury
OBSP developer
Here's the alignment (conjunction) in 2002:
A conjunction of 3 planets happens quite offten, but this one was quite special, because of allignment of 5.
A conjunction of 3 planets happens quite offten, but this one was quite special, because of allignment of 5.
Face
Well-known member
Ah. You want to know if your UDP port is usable before the simulation starts... I already considered that by means of the ping command. The client is not supporting this ATM, though.
No. It would be unnecessary. Either UDP works or not. Having other clients act as relay-stations is not helping anything.
The server is supporting it, it is called spacetime-bubble. Just the client is not supporting it ATM.
So you want a online view of the user list state of a OMP server... This is a different kind of beast, as you'd need the server to push the information to a web-site every time the user list changes. The pull approach - having a telnet-session, issue "list", parse the response and put it up on a site - is already possible. You could do it via PHP, perl, python or even javascript. All you have to do is instruct your web server to render a side via a scripting language that calls the server.
I once considered a push approach by means of putting up a MySQL-backed list of all active server on the web including user and object lists. It is still on my list, but waaaaay behind more important points like full .NET transfer, GUI overhaul and persistence.
regards,
Face
Kriss
Snowman
http://krizoek.com/omp.php <- I made something like this here now. But i wonder if I could somehow get the results up here at the forum. Would anyone here have some ideas how that could be made possible??
Code for the following parser:
Code for the following parser:
PHP:
<?php
$host = 'omp.game-server.cc';
$port = 1515;
if(!$omp = pfsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $error_str)) {
$omp = pfsockopen($host, $port, &$err_no, &$err_msg, 10)
or die ("Could not open a connection to host <i>$host</i> on port <i>$port</i>.
The error message returned was '<i>$err_msg</i>'.");
} else {
fputs($omp, "list\r");
echo "<b>Users Online:</b> <p>";
while(!feof($omp)) {
$clients = fgets($omp, 1024);
if (preg_match ("/:/i", $clients))
{
echo preg_replace("/:/",''," $clients <br>");
}
if (preg_match ("/client/i", $clients))
{
echo "</p> $clients";
break;
}
}
}
?>
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Face
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Very nice. As to how to include it here, I don't have a clue...
tblaxland
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^ What he said.
, and I'll add it to the TODO list, but it is queued up behind quite a few other things ATM (like holidays with my family) so I will not make any promises
I have some clues
, and I'll add it to the TODO list, but it is queued up behind quite a few other things ATM (like holidays with my family) so I will not make any promises 
