+// used by some of the DP protocols
+void EntityState_Write(entity_state_t *ent, sizebuf_t *msg, entity_state_t *delta);
+
+// (server) clears the database to contain no frames (thus delta compression
+// compresses against nothing)
+void EntityFrame_ClearDatabase(entity_database_t *d);
+// (server and client) removes frames older than 'frame' from database
+void EntityFrame_AckFrame(entity_database_t *d, int frame);
+// (server) clears frame, to prepare for adding entities
+void EntityFrame_Clear(entity_frame_t *f, vec3_t eye, int framenum);
+// (server) adds an entity to frame
+void EntityFrame_AddEntity(entity_frame_t *f, entity_state_t *s);
+// (server and client) reads a frame from the database
+void EntityFrame_FetchFrame(entity_database_t *d, int framenum, entity_frame_t *f);
+// (server and client) adds a entity_frame to the database, for future
+// reference
+void EntityFrame_AddFrame(entity_database_t *d, entity_frame_t *f);
+// (server) writes a frame to network stream
+void EntityFrame_Write(entity_database_t *d, entity_frame_t *f, sizebuf_t *msg);
+// (client) reads a frame from network stream
+void EntityFrame_Read(entity_database_t *d);
+// (client) returns the frame number of the most recent frame recieved
+int EntityFrame_MostRecentlyRecievedFrameNum(entity_database_t *d);
+
+typedef struct entity_database4_commit_s
+{
+ // frame number this commit represents
+ int framenum;
+ // number of entities in entity[] array
+ int numentities;
+ // maximum number of entities in entity[] array (dynamic resizing)
+ int maxentities;
+ entity_state_t *entity;
+}
+entity_database4_commit_t;
+
+typedef struct entity_database4_s
+{
+ // what mempool to use for allocations
+ mempool_t *mempool;
+ // reference frame
+ int referenceframenum;
+ // reference entities array is resized according to demand
+ int maxreferenceentities;
+ // array of states for entities, these are indexable by their entity number (yes there are gaps)
+ entity_state_t *referenceentity;
+ // commits waiting to be applied to the reference database when confirmed
+ // (commit[i]->numentities == 0 means it is empty)
+ entity_database4_commit_t commit[MAX_ENTITY_HISTORY];
+ // (server only) the current commit being worked on
+ entity_database4_commit_t *currentcommit;
+ // (server only) if a commit won't fit entirely, continue where it left
+ // off next frame
+ int currententitynumber;
+ // (client only) most recently received frame number to be sent in next
+ // input update
+ int ackframenum;
+}
+entity_database4_t;
+
+// should-be-private functions that aren't
+entity_state_t *EntityFrame4_GetReferenceEntity(entity_database4_t *d, int number);
+void EntityFrame4_AddCommitEntity(entity_database4_t *d, entity_state_t *s);
+
+// allocate a database
+entity_database4_t *EntityFrame4_AllocDatabase(mempool_t *pool);
+// free a database
+void EntityFrame4_FreeDatabase(entity_database4_t *d);
+// reset a database (resets compression but does not reallocate anything)
+void EntityFrame4_ResetDatabase(entity_database4_t *d);
+// updates database to account for a frame-received acknowledgment
+int EntityFrame4_AckFrame(entity_database4_t *d, int framenum);
+
+// write an entity in the frame
+// returns false if full
+int EntityFrame4_SV_WriteFrame_Entity(entity_database4_t *d, sizebuf_t *msg, int maxbytes, entity_state_t *s);
+
+// reads a frame from the network stream
+void EntityFrame4_CL_ReadFrame(entity_database4_t *d);
+
+extern cvar_t developer_networkentities;
+
+#endif
+