how to handle different client viewports?

[DavidScales]

Filing this bug for easier reference in inline notes. Basically, since different clients could have different widths, its nontrivial to assign "spawning ranges", etc.

For example, if the spawning range for a player is 0 > x > 1000, but that player's viewport is only 600 wide, they could spawn at 800 and not see themselves. Similarly, if we spawn objects in a more limited range, players with wide monitors will have a large empty space on their viewport.

For the player themselves, we could track viewport size via socket data, to ensure that players only spawn in their field of view. However for objects and enemies, thats not the case, since these are shared among all viewers.

For now, I think we should

• assume a small screen for player spawns, and spawn them in the centerish of that small screen, since spawning offscreen is a much more critical bug.
• assume most players on a laptop, and set range for enemies & obstacles to be around that size.

[DavidScales]

With Nick's viewport size listener, we could make the game world be the size of the biggest client viewport.

If we had camera movement, we could also spawn the remaining players with smaller viewports in the center of the game map

This would make everything centered, and everyone's viewport as consistent as possible, and everything good and nice and such