You know what, been eons since I use to be a programmer, but this post gives me a crazy idea for lan or online playing.
Instead of desperately trying to emulate bnet why not do it via 3rd party application?
The concept:
* The application has the ability to both be client and server at the same time.
* Whenever a client connects to a host via socket or any other method, it simply launches starcraft making it think that the extra client is also a local player (not entirely sure how to locate and do this part) - which would be injected into the memory of the game and the extra local player would be placed into a different spot other than the default one (I have a faint idea of how to do this).
Having ideas like this sure makes me want to go back into programming.
What do you guys think?
Instead of desperately trying to emulate bnet why not do it via 3rd party application?
The concept:
* The application has the ability to both be client and server at the same time.
* Whenever a client connects to a host via socket or any other method, it simply launches starcraft making it think that the extra client is also a local player (not entirely sure how to locate and do this part) - which would be injected into the memory of the game and the extra local player would be placed into a different spot other than the default one (I have a faint idea of how to do this).
Having ideas like this sure makes me want to go back into programming.
What do you guys think?