a concise, straightforward, open-ended system for skill casting. designed for no-network-roundtrips
all castable packets must satisfy { } & { flag: buffer }
castables are retrieved with /Client.get() or /Server.get(), or can be directly referenced from the .Module table present in both
every castable must exist in both /Server and /Client as same-name equivalents. should a castable not have its equivalent on require, the server will emit a warning and the castable will not be accessible during runtime. this should be treated as a fatal warning as castables are indexed alphabetically to fit nicely into a castable flag
no-network-roundtrip castable structure implies that non-deterministic components of any castable can be interpreted as "poisoned" such as the roll component of the castable flag that is intended to be used as a value to solve for rng-reliant components such as dodges, criticals, etc
another drawback is desync between peers, as from real testing there are some cases where castables become a desynced because of differences in connection or the very delayed physics networking amongst peers with similar connections
| field (width) | range | value |
|---|---|---|
[31, 22] (10) |
index | [0, 1023] |
[21, 12] (10) |
roll | [0, 1023] |
[11, 4] (8) |
latency (ms) | [0, 255] |
[3, 0] (4) |
step | [0, 15] |
client.input() -> ( client ... ) -> types.send( to server ) ->
|CLIENT -> SERVER|
server.input( player, packet ) -> ( server ... ) -> types.send( to players ) ->
|SERVER -> CLIENT|
client.recv( packet ... ) -> client.render( ...? )