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Hendro.Wijaya
Hi All,
I'm a beginner in Compact Framework. I have some questions on game
programming for Compact Framework.
IF given SQL CE is not an option for storing the map files. We are
either left to use XML or other file types. Isn't it?
The map files itself for our game is considerably huge, 25 mb, and if I
try to load everything during initialization, it will take me more than
10 minutes. Which is not acceptable.
Therefore, what i would try to achieve is loading each chunk that is
required given our player position in the map and do it seemlessly
(like Dungeon Siege).
However, my problem is...I can't find any API that can read from the
files in randomly-chosen location. XmlTextReader that I'm using now
reads from the beginning of the streams. XmlDocument is not an option
because of the DOM approach (10 minutes initialization).
What API in CF that may facilitate this idea? I wish I make my point
clear.
Does anyone has any idea that can help? Or maybe has the reference
paper that I can go through for myself. I appreciate it very much.
Thank you in advance.
I'm a beginner in Compact Framework. I have some questions on game
programming for Compact Framework.
IF given SQL CE is not an option for storing the map files. We are
either left to use XML or other file types. Isn't it?
The map files itself for our game is considerably huge, 25 mb, and if I
try to load everything during initialization, it will take me more than
10 minutes. Which is not acceptable.
Therefore, what i would try to achieve is loading each chunk that is
required given our player position in the map and do it seemlessly
(like Dungeon Siege).
However, my problem is...I can't find any API that can read from the
files in randomly-chosen location. XmlTextReader that I'm using now
reads from the beginning of the streams. XmlDocument is not an option
because of the DOM approach (10 minutes initialization).
What API in CF that may facilitate this idea? I wish I make my point
clear.
Does anyone has any idea that can help? Or maybe has the reference
paper that I can go through for myself. I appreciate it very much.
Thank you in advance.