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| 16:46.35 | JeffM | Ok, time to remove the banlist from my server |
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| 19:06.12 | JeffM | what is the most common format for ban lenghts to be specified in? |
| 19:06.19 | JeffM | days? minutes? |
| 19:08.20 | JeffM | or more specifically what is the desired granularity? |
| 19:31.40 | blast007 | minutes should be the lowest precision |
| 20:59.43 | blast007 | JeffM: I did think of one reason to be able to manually type in IPs to ban - if you're trying to ban a player on another server before they get to it |
| 21:00.11 | JeffM | ahh if you arn't using a shared ban host |
| 21:00.26 | blast007 | or if it's someone else's server that you admin at |
| 21:00.31 | JeffM | sure |
| 21:01.06 | JeffM | I've got the default ban module in place now. it's using SQLite for ban storage so it oculd be shared across multiple instances on the same machine |
| 21:01.25 | JeffM | and you can install a custom ban database class that could be linked to mySQL or whatever |
| 21:01.55 | blast007 | a shared YAML file is probably just fine for a ban file |
| 21:02.18 | JeffM | you can do that if you wanted too :) |
| 21:02.25 | blast007 | I'm unclear what kind of concurrency SQLite has |
| 21:02.46 | JeffM | BZFS.PlayerAdministration.API.RegisterDBBackend("YAML",new MyYAMLDB()); |
| 21:02.48 | blast007 | sounds like they have some less ideal defaults as well |
| 21:03.30 | JeffM | the db type is specified in the config, the backend is abstracted from the rest of the system, so whatever ends up being best can be used. |
| 21:03.39 | blast007 | k |
| 21:04.06 | JeffM | the system interacts with the static BanDatabase class |
| 21:04.20 | JeffM | it does the work of breaking up addresses and masks and stuff |
| 21:04.35 | JeffM | then it calls a IBanDBBackend to look up ban records. |
| 21:04.56 | JeffM | IBanDBBackend is an abstract interface. |
| 21:05.28 | JeffM | I just wrote a SQLite one because it was easy. |
| 21:06.53 | blast007 | kierra: you around? I want to test something with the LU mute group |
| 21:08.13 | JeffM | This is the backend class, it would be easy to make it flat file. https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/uPtZPRVM/ |
| 21:16.08 | blast007 | JeffM: for my SQLite test, I also set/verify an application_id, and had a database version (so I could detect when I needed to upgrade, or detect if the DB was supported) |
| 21:16.30 | JeffM | sure all, dooable |
| 21:16.46 | blast007 | though I'd probably switch to a metadata table if I was going to use SQLite, so that I could store extra info like what kind of DB it was |
| 21:17.05 | blast007 | (still set the application_id, but move the version to a metadata table) |
| 21:36.13 | macsforme | some new textures for the next version would be nice... I think for the most significant visual improvement, we would focus on things like a higher resolution (as mentioned above) and a consistent resolution, trying to reduce the repeating patterns, and having corresponding height maps or normal maps so we can do per-pixel lighting without too much extra work in the future |
| 21:42.59 | macsforme | procedural/shader-based textures do exist and can save on memory costs, but I don't know who would in our community would have the skill to create those for us |
| 21:44.38 | macsforme | I messed around with them briefly, but they're hard to do, especially when it comes to antialiased edges: http://fairserve.net/~josh/bzflag/procedural.png |
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| 22:57.24 | JeffM | BZFlag doesn't have hundreds of textures, so I'm not sure memory savings is super important |
| 22:58.18 | JeffM | you aren't making star citizen that wants 16+ gigs of ram :) |
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