Array ghosted?

#1 No it does not mean it's ghosted.

Neither does having unpack() and pack() functions.

#2 What does it take to implement something that's ghosted?
thanks

#3 I currently need some ghosted object that acts as a generic data holder, it must either hold a list of string data or has a name to value map functionality. is there anything I can use?
thanks!

#4 What's your defination of ghosted?

You want it networkable?

#5 Yes networkable

#6 Yes networkable

#7 Would making your own console object that is scoped to scripting that inherits from Net Object would make this class ghost able? and fulfill the purpose?

#8 In principle this is pretty simple. You could implement your custom networked array class, like e.g. NetworkedArrayObject that inherits from ArrayObject.

Make sure to make the class a networked object

IMPLEMENT_CO_NETOBJECT_V1( NetworkedArrayObject );

and in the constructor, simply mark the object as ScopeAlways so it will be pushed out to all clients:

mNetFlags.set( Ghostable | ScopeAlways );

Then just implement the packUpdate and unpackUpdate functions. If the array values don't really change a lot, you don't need to make the whole updating very smart and could just push all the values on each update. If the values do change quite a bit, send only deltas.

However, while all this isn't that difficult, the fact you want such a class in the first place hints at a problem. There are usually better ways to implement networked logic than doing it like this.

Maybe you would like to explain a little what you are planning to do here.

#9
Ah, of course, I overlooked one thing there. You can't derive from ArrayObject since it's only a SimObject. You need to derive directly or indirectly from NetObject.