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Site Navigation Main    News    Forums Games    Games Database    Top 100    Release List    Support Files Features    Reviews    Previews    Interviews    Editorials    Diaries    Misc Download    Gallery    Music    Screenshots    Videos Miscellaneous    Staff Members    Privacy Statement   High Tech for MMORPGs (PC: MMORPG) | Posted by Moriendor @ Wednesday - July 11, 2001 - 19:01 - Top | Game Info | Rate this game | Homepage | Screenshots GameSpot reports that Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has signed a licence deal with Criterion Software, allowing SOE to use Criterion's dPVS middleware product. SOE is planning on using the technology in the upcoming EverQuest expansion pack, The Shadows of Luclin and, more importantly, in Star Wars: Galaxies. Here's what dPVS does: ...With dPVS, a game engine can do visibility checks on the fly, which allows for dynamic game environments. Sony Online's games will use dPVS on game servers to check whether or not players are visible to each other. This process of filtering out unneeded data will reduce network traffic and allow servers to handle richer gameworlds. It will also have the side effect of preventing client-side cheats that allow players to see through walls, simply because the server won't send the player data on what goes on beyond walls. Developers call the data that allows for visibility culling the "potentially visible set" of 3D objects (or PVS)...

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