2025-04-13

[purple]

Its been two weeks since our last update. As we mentioned before, we will only post stuff if we have a reason to do so.
That is the case today.

For everyone not interested in technicalities, we once again have some footage linked below.

• We implemented proper handling for time dilation events on both world and individual entity level
  Dilation is not processed unless it is applied by low level engine systems as a fix for world streaming.

• We improved debug console UX and added support for optional parameters for natively registered commands
  Usually all parameters specified in the native callback are strictly checked for presence and type when a ConCmd invocation is executed from the command buffer.
  Commands can now wrap parameters in their callbacks in std::optional and check for their presence inside the callback at invocation time.
  Nested type compatiblity inside optionals is still enforced.

• We implemented proper mounting synchronization with server validation.
  A demonstration of that can be seen in the attached video.

• We did a lot of major and minor networking fixes
  -- Reducing network traffic
  -- Even more integrity checks
  -- Load testing
  -- Congestion testing
  -- Adjustments to "raw" networking layer settings like MTU size to reduce transmission errors in "weird" networks

• We improved our netgraph visualization with more detailed metrics and some UX improvements for easier interpretation
  We added an extended netgraph mode that acts similar to a "message heatmap", to visualize which areas of networking produce the most traffic and need further improvements.

• We added a "component filtering" stage to our entity creation logic to dynamically remove unecessary entity components from remotely simulated entities
  This is used both for bug fixes and a general performance increase due to the avoided unecessary computations.

• We improved our third person perspective representation logic to deal with more edge cases

Video:

Screenshots:

Netgraph

ConCmd optional parameters (this is a screenshot of our test suite)