KR100765247B1 - Method and system for controlling behavior of object - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and a system for controlling behavior of an object are provided to reduce system resources of a central server used for processing the object and reduce a network load in an MMORPG(Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). A central processor(410) downloads source data related to behavior control of the object to a connected terminal. A command provider(420) transmits a control message to the related terminal when an event for a first object is generated. A behavior controller(430) performs the behavior control for the first object by using the source data stored in the terminal in response to reception of the control message. A handover processor(440) transmits the second source data stored/received from a second terminal related to a second object if the behavior control of the second object is required in the terminal. A database stores the control message corresponding to the event. The command provider recognizes the generated event, reads the control message corresponding to the recognized event from the database, and transmits the read control message to the terminal related to the first object.

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING BEHAVIOR OF OBJECT}

1 is a view for explaining the behavior control of the object implemented in the conventional game.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an object control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an object control method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of an object control system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a view for explaining the behavior control of the object implemented in the game according to the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings>

400: object control system

410: central processing means

420: command providing means

430: behavior control means

440: handover processing means

The present invention relates to a method and a system for controlling the behavior of an object, to store the source data for controlling the behavior of the object in the terminal means, and transmits only a small amount of control messages to the terminal means to enable the behavior of the object An object control method and an object control system.

As the use of the Internet has rapidly increased due to the development of information and communication, the service industry using the Internet is also growing, and the online game industry is being actively developed at home and abroad.

With the rapid growth of the online game industry and the internet industry, the game market has recently developed into a massively multi-player online role playing game (MMORPG), in which a large number of handsets are connected through a network. MMORPG, which originates from the Multi-player Online Role Playing Game (MORPG), which is provided by a small number of terminals, is a genre of games that hundreds to thousands of users can simultaneously access and play at the same time. . For example, the behavior of each of the numerous objects displayed on each of the thousands of terminals connected for the game must be controlled at the central server, which can overload the network and the central server.

1 is a view for explaining the behavior control of the object implemented in the conventional game.

Referring to FIG. 1, the first terminal 110, the second terminal 120, and the third terminal 130 are some of terminals connected to the central processing server 140 in order to use the aforementioned MMORPG. . In this case, the first terminal 110, the second terminal 120, and the third terminal 130 may be artificially controlled according to behavior control of the first object and the central processing server 140 that each user can control. Display the second object being controlled. That is, the first terminal 110, the second terminal 120, and the third terminal 130 display the first object in accordance with a user's command while displaying the second object in the same manner. To this end, the central control server 140 should inform the respective terminals of the behavior of the first object while receiving a control signal for indicating the first object from each terminal. In addition, the behavior of the second object must be informed to the respective terminals.

That is, the central processing server 140 must consume a lot of system resources in order to control the behavior of the first object and the second object, and the network is overloaded due to frequent data exchange between the central processing server 140 and the respective terminals. Occurs. This problem can act as a fatal factor that hinders the development of the MMORPG market.

Therefore, there is an urgent need for the emergence of more advanced technical ideas that can reduce the load on the network while reducing the consumption of system resources of the central processing server 140.

The present invention has been made to improve the prior art as described above, an object of the present invention, the object control system and object control to reduce the load of the network while reducing the system resources of the central server used for object processing on the MMORPG To provide a way.

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the object control method according to the present invention comprises the step of having the source data associated with the behavior control of the object to be retained in the connected terminal means, the first object Upon the occurrence of an event for the event, sending a control message to the terminal means associated with the first object, and controlling the behavior of the first object using source data held by the terminal means in response to receiving the control message. Characterized in that it comprises a step to be performed.

The object control system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a central processing means for holding source data related to behavior control of an object in a connected terminal means, and when an event for a first object is generated, a control message is transmitted to the first object. Command providing means for transmitting to a terminal means associated with the control means; and behavior control means for causing behavior control on the first object to be performed using source data held in the terminal means in response to receiving the control message. It features.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the contents described in the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited or limited to the embodiments.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an object control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, in step 201, the object control system according to the present invention allows the terminal means to hold source data. More specifically, the terminal means is an object acting according to the basic behaviors of the first object that operates artificially in the game, for example, moving, stopping, special behavior, attack, defense, and control of the user (hereinafter referred to as a user object). In order to express the interaction with each other, the source data is received from the object control system according to the present invention and stored in the memory. Accordingly, the object control system checks whether an event for the first object has occurred in step 202, and if the event for the first object occurs as a result of the check, the terminal transmits a control message corresponding to the event as shown in step 203. Transfer to the means. For example, if the first object is hit from a user object, the object control system confirms that an event according to the hit has occurred in the first object in step 202, and in step 203, the first object is subject to hitting. The control message is transmitted to the terminal means to act accordingly.

To this end, the object control system according to an embodiment of the present invention stores at least one or more events and control messages associated with the event in a database, and when the event occurs in the first object, by identifying the generated event, The control message is read from the database based on the identified event.

Next, in step 204, the object control system causes the terminal means to process the action of the first object in response to the received control message. For example, the object control system may control the terminal means such that the first object is destroyed in response to the hit.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the control message is text information representing the state or behavior of the first object or controlling the movement of the first object for a predetermined time. That is, the object control system according to the present invention controls the behavior of the first object using only a small amount of text information without transmitting both a command for control and source data for processing an object according to the command as in the related art. By doing so, the network overload can be significantly reduced.

The object control system according to an embodiment of the present invention receives, from the second terminal means, second source data stored by the second terminal means associated with the second object when behavior control for a second object is required. In this case, the terminal means may control the behavior of the second object. A detailed description thereof will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an object control method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, in step 301, the object control system determines whether a request for behavior control for a second object is required by the terminal means. More specifically, the object control system checks whether an event has occurred for the second object represented by the second terminal means. For example, if the second object has been hit, the terminal means must also process behavior control corresponding to the hit of the second object. Thus, the object control system checks in step 301 that the hit occurred.

Next, in step 302, the object control system collects second source data for processing behavior control of the second object from the second terminal means, and provides the received second source data to the terminal means. do. Thus, in step 304, the object control system processes the terminal means to control the behavior of the second object by using the received second source data.

That is, using the object control method according to the present invention, in a system that processes an event of a myriad of objects, such as a system for driving MMORPG, the source for controlling the behavior of the object is distributed to the terminal means participating in the game when necessary By sharing in other terminal means, waste of system resources of the central system can be reduced.

As a specific example, in an MMORPG such as Raycity, thousands of AI vehicles (objects) interact with thousands of external vehicles in space within the game. Accordingly, the object control system according to the present invention can overcome the limitation of the central system capability and the limitation of network usage in order to control the behavior of the artificial intelligence vehicle. In other words, the AI vehicle is distributed to a plurality of computers, and the interaction between the vehicles is controlled as described above. When the object control system is used, behavior is controlled using source data of another terminal, thereby reducing system resources and Network loads can be used to control large scale AI vehicles.

4 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of an object control system 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, the object control system 400 according to the present invention includes a central processing means 410, a command providing means 420, and a behavior control means 430.

The central processing means 410 allows the terminal means to be connected to hold source data related to the behavior control of the object in advance. For example, the object may be displayed in the game by interacting with a user object acting under the control of the user. That is, the object performs basic actions such as movement, stoppage, special action, attack, defense, and interaction with the user object by means of predetermined pre-coded source data. The central processing means 410 provides the source data to the terminal means.

Next, the command providing means 420 transmits a control message to the terminal means associated with the first object when an event for the first object occurs. The command providing means 420 generates a control message for controlling the behavior of the first object, and provides the generated control message to the terminal means representing the first object. Using the command providing means 420 according to the present invention, in order to control the behavior of the conventional object, it is possible to solve the problems of wasting system resources and increasing network overload by transmitting both source and control signals. That is, in order to control the object through the source data stored by the terminal means in advance, the command providing means 420 may request the terminal means to control the behavior of the object by transmitting only a small amount of character information.

The object control system according to an embodiment of the present invention further includes a database (not shown) that stores a control message corresponding to the event. More specifically, a control message associated with an event is stored in the database, and the command providing means 420 identifies an event generated in the first object, and reads a control message corresponding to the identified event from the database. To the terminal means associated with the first object.

The behavior control means 430 processes the behavior control on the first object through the source data held in the terminal means in response to receiving the control message. That is, using the object control method according to the present invention, in a system that processes an event of a myriad of objects, such as a system for driving MMORPG, the source for controlling the behavior of the object is distributed to the terminal means participating in the game when necessary By sharing in other terminal means, waste of system resources of the central system can be reduced. For example, consider a first vehicle (object) that acts as an artificial intelligence and a second vehicle (user object) that behaves under the control of a user. The terminal means stores in advance source data for processing the vehicle body to be destroyed in case of an accident with respect to the first vehicle and the second vehicle. When the first vehicle collides with the second vehicle, the command control means 420 transmits a control message for instructing vehicle body destruction of each vehicle to the terminal means for displaying the first vehicle and the second vehicle, The behavior control unit 430 may destroy the first vehicle and the second vehicle using the source data in response to the command of the vehicle body destruction. That is, the object control system 400 according to the present invention does not receive source data for processing the behavior of each object from the central server at the time of event occurrence, but rather the behavior of the object based on the control message from the prestored source data. By not only reducing the load on the network, but also reducing the waste of system resources of the central server.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the object control system 400 further comprises a handover processing means 440. More specifically, the handover processing means 440 receives the second source data held from the second terminal means associated with the second object when the terminal means requires the behavior control of the second object to control the behavior. To the means. That is, when behavior control is required for a second object participating in the game, the terminal means receives the second source data from the second terminal means in which the second source data representing the behavior of the second object is stored, and thereby controls the behavior. It is available. Eventually, using the object control system 400 according to the present invention, in a general MMORPG game, a source representing the movement of each AI object in order to make a large AI object move the same on each computer of multiple users. There is no need to collect data from a central server. Thus, not only the system load on the central server can be reduced, but also distributed processing is possible so that more users can participate in the game at the same time.

5 is a view for explaining the behavior control of the object implemented in the game according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the first terminal means 510 and the second terminal means 520 participate in an online game provided by the central processing server 540. Accordingly, the first terminal means 510 and the second terminal means 520 receive and store source data about objects provided from the object control system 530, and the event of a specific object in the central processing server 540. In response to the detection, the object control system 530 generates a control message and transmits the control message to the first terminal means 510 and the second terminal means 520 to control the behavior of the specific object according to the event. to provide.

As a result, by using the object control system according to the present invention, it is possible to reduce the system resources of the server used for object processing on the MMORPG and to reduce the load on the network, thereby making a leap forward in the online game industry.

Embodiments of the invention include a computer readable medium containing program instructions for performing various computer-implemented operations. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, magnetic-optical media such as floppy disks, and ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute the same program instructions are included. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

While specific embodiments of the present invention have been described so far, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by those equivalent to the scope of the claims.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an object control system and an object control method for reducing the load of a network while reducing system resources of a central server used for object processing on an MMORPG.

Claims (10)

In the method of controlling the behavior of the object running in the game, Allowing source data related to behavior control of the object to be retained in the connected terminal means; Upon occurrence of an event for a first object, sending a control message to a terminal means associated with the first object; And In response to receiving the control message, controlling the behavior of the first object using source data held by the terminal means; Object control method comprising a. The method of claim 1, If behavior control of a second object is required in the terminal means, receiving second source data retained from the second terminal means associated with the second object to perform behavior control on the second object; Object control method further comprises. The method of claim 1, Storing a control message corresponding to the event in the database More, When the event of the first object occurs, the step of transmitting a control message to the terminal means associated with the first object, Identifying the generated event; And Reading a control message corresponding to the identified event from the database Object control method comprising a. The method of claim 1, The control message includes text information for controlling the movement of the object for a certain time, The step of causing the behavior control to be performed, Controlling the movement of the object according to the text information Object control method comprising a. The method of claim 1, The control message includes textual information about the state of the object for a certain time, The step of causing the behavior control to be performed, Controlling the current state of the object according to the text information Object control method comprising a. The method of claim 1, The object is an object control method, characterized in that the object in the game operating by the action control according to artificial intelligence (AI). A computer-readable recording medium in which a program for executing at least one of claims 1 to 6 is recorded. In a system that controls the behavior of an object running in a game, Central processing means for causing source data associated with behavior control of an object to be retained in a connected terminal means; Command providing means for transmitting a control message to a terminal means associated with the first object when an event for the first object occurs; And Behavior control means for performing behavior control on the first object using source data held in the terminal means in response to receiving the control message; Object control system comprising a. The method of claim 8, Handover processing means for receiving the second source data held from the second terminal means associated with the second object and providing it to the behavior control means when the terminal means requires the behavior control of the second object; Object control system further comprises. The method of claim 8, Database that stores control messages corresponding to events More, The command providing means, Identifying the generated event, reading a control message corresponding to the identified event from the database, and transmitting the read control message to a terminal means associated with the first object.

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