💡 MMO-style server meshing via Horizon Atlas

[tristanpoland]

Horizon Atlas is designed to provide server meshing in Horizon allowing it to support infinitely large worlds with infinitely many players online.

See the Atlas README for more details! We will be starting this soon and holding a community meeting where more of the decisions will be made. We will update the details here as they emerge.

[tristanpoland]

@justinpitera @GhostedGaming I added you two here in case you wanted to observe/participate in the writing of this feature. We are going to wait a few weeks until @haywoodspartan is able to help with implementation details at that point I'll get everyone's schedules and we will hold that call.

[justinpitera]

Sounds good 👍

[GhostedGaming]

Alright ill try my best to assist

[tristanpoland]

Updates

Part of this feature will be adding standard methods to the event system

// Will allow the plugin to build a packet to send to it's counterpart when the player transitions
// into the other server (this is collected pre-transition and can be updated by ref (at high cost over
// the network) until the transition occurs)
.on_player_transition_collect_data()
// Will allow the counterpart plugin to receive data from copies of itself another instance that has
// a player transitioning into it's instance
.on_player_transition_rcv_data()

// Will allow plugins to know when the player has actually connected to the other server *and* left
// this one
.on_player_transition_out()
// Will allow plugins to know when the player has actually connected to this server and left it's
// original server
.on_player_transition_in() 

These will allow clean data transfer between plugins across any number of server instances as players travel.
Plugins will also be able to eventually commit values to Horizon's global store allowing them to be pulled by any plugin (this will come later in the development of Atlas and will require a Write lock on data in this storage)