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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: chief1983 on March 26, 2018, 11:40:38 am

Title: Remember RakNet? Enter SLikeNet.
Post by: chief1983 on March 26, 2018, 11:40:38 am

So, at one point there was talk about RakNet potentially being a candidate if someone ever wanted to completely gut and replace the in-game multiplayer code.  Then they were acquired by Occulus, who open-sourced it but the project hasn't had a commit since 2015.  Out of curiosity I checked for fork activity, and found SLikeNet (https://www.slikesoft.com/?page_id=1224&lang=en), which has had very recent activity (GitHub (https://github.com/SLikeSoft/SLikeNet)).  Still not sure if it would be useful to us ever, but can probably replace any discussion of RakNet with this library going forward.

Title: Re: Remember RakNet? Enter SLikeNet.
Post by: m!m on March 31, 2018, 01:03:31 pm

Valve has just released their cross-platform socket library which provides some useful features: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets
I'm not sure if it is useful for our purposes since it doesn't provide anything more than we currently have but maybe it's better than the existing code.