Class CharacterCastBroadcastSerializer

Namespace

FishMMO.Shared

Assembly

FishMMO.Shared.dll

Wire format for CharacterCastBroadcast.

public static class CharacterCastBroadcastSerializer

Inheritance

object

CharacterCastBroadcastSerializer

Inherited Members

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.ToString()

Remarks

Hand written because a stop carries two fields the receiver never looks at. ClientCastNameplateDisplay.OnCastBroadcast branches on Started first and returns having read only the caster id and the reference id — so ServerTick and IsConsumable are dead weight on every cast end, and the generated serializer wrote all five fields unconditionally. That is four to five bytes per cast per observer on the reliable channel, paid by NPC auto-attacks at one per second each.

Started therefore goes FIRST, as a header bit: it is the field that says which shape follows, in the style of AbilityObserverBroadcastSerializers and AbilityObjectObserverBroadcastSerializers. The consumable bit shares that byte rather than costing one of its own.

ReferenceID travels packed and in ONE form on both shapes. It is an ability instance id — a database sequence value, and small — except on a consumable, where it is a full-range template hash; splitting the two would need the consumable bit on a stop, which is the byte this format exists to save, and the receiver compares a stop's reference against the start's, so the two must encode identically.

Methods

ReadCharacterCastBroadcast(Reader)

Reads a CharacterCastBroadcast written by the method above.

public static CharacterCastBroadcast ReadCharacterCastBroadcast(this Reader reader)

Parameters

reader Reader

Returns

CharacterCastBroadcast

Remarks

A stop comes back with ServerTick 0 and IsConsumable false, which is exactly what its handler expects: it reads neither.

WriteCharacterCastBroadcast(Writer, CharacterCastBroadcast)

Writes a CharacterCastBroadcast in its shape-dependent form.

public static void WriteCharacterCastBroadcast(this Writer writer, CharacterCastBroadcast value)

Parameters

writer Writer

value CharacterCastBroadcast