Method ghostWritePacket

Engine/source/sim/netGhost.cpp:322–517

}

void NetConnection::ghostWritePacket(BitStream *bstream, PacketNotify *notify)
{
#ifdef    TORQUE_DEBUG_NET
   bstream->writeInt(DebugChecksum, 32);
#endif

   notify->ghostList = NULL;

   if(!isGhostingFrom())
      return;

   if(!bstream->writeFlag(mGhosting))
      return;

   // fill a packet (or two) with ghosting data

   // first step is to check all our polled ghosts:

   // 1. Scope query - find if any new objects have come into
   //    scope and if any have gone out.
   // 2. call scoped objects' priority functions if the flag set is nonzero
   //    A removed ghost is assumed to have a high priority
   // 3. call updates based on sorted priority until the packet is
   //    full.  set flags to zero for all updated objects

   CameraScopeQuery camInfo;

   camInfo.camera = NULL;
   camInfo.pos.set(0,0,0);
   camInfo.orientation.set(0,1,0);
   camInfo.visibleDistance = 1;
   camInfo.fov = (F32)(3.1415f / 4.0f);
   camInfo.sinFov = 0.7071f;
   camInfo.cosFov = 0.7071f;

   GhostInfo *walk;

   // only need to worry about the ghosts that have update masks set...
   S32 maxIndex = 0;
   S32 i;
   for(i = 0; i < mGhostZeroUpdateIndex; i++)
   {
      // increment the updateSkip for everyone... it's all good
      walk = mGhostArray[i];
      walk->updateSkipCount++;
      if(!(walk->flags & (GhostInfo::ScopeAlways | GhostInfo::ScopeLocalAlways)))
         walk->flags &= ~GhostInfo::InScope;
   }

   if( mScopeObject )
      mScopeObject->onCameraScopeQuery( this, &camInfo );
   doneScopingScene();

   for(i = mGhostZeroUpdateIndex - 1; i >= 0; i--)
   {
      // [rene, 07-Mar-11] Killing ghosts depending on the camera scope queries
      //    seems like a bad thing to me and something that definitely has the potential
      //    of causing scoping to eat into bandwidth rather than preserve it.  As soon