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I was thinking. It is possible to create a radio in the game? And this broadcast news and live broadcast of a link?

brunob.santos wrote:I was thinking. It is possible to create a radio in the game? And this broadcast news and live broadcast of a link?

Sounds way too hard.. i don't think it would be possible

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Esteban wrote:From a link is not possible, I haven't seen a mod to this date that could connect to a link and obtain information from it, but broadcasting an audio file is possible, Blockmen's jukebox is heard by all players...

Retrieving data from the network is possible (using luasocket; IRC mod uses it and LuaIRC to connect in-game chat to IRC). What would be needed here is to implement a way in the engine to stream arbitrary audio data from the server to the client (as a side note, this could also be used for voice chat by adding support for audio input to the client).

TL;DR not possible at the moment.

wouldn't it also suffer from the "must be in memory at the start of the game" problem that i had with doing an overhead terrain map? - i finally worked out how to make a great overhead terrain map on-the-fly, but there is just no way to push it to the client