I am working on a multiplayer RTS game in Java. It uses lockstep for networking, which requires that both computers can deterministically.
These are the 2 closest/more viable approaches I could come up with- but both have issues:
The first is to just use int and long for all my player positions and stuff, and get any use of floating point math totally out of the game model. I like this concept- but the problem is what happens when I need a square root, or a cosine? I would have to basically make an entire math library!
I also found that I can use the strictfp modifier and StrictMath class to do deterministic math with doubles... Which I could see using this to create deterministic math within my games model. It would be very prone to bugs as it would be very easy to accidentally go outside of the "strict" scope though.
Also I cant seem to figure out if serializing a float or double causes it to lose its determinism. I'm using Kryo/Kryonet right now, but I cant seem to find any information on if it is deterministic with floats or not (I cant seem to find any information on the built in java serialization either, or any other serialization library)
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could tackle this problem?
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