I'm going through the process of converting Locoweeds Multiplayer tutorial to lite-c but I'm having problems with using the server and client variables that are set from command line options when starting in server or client mode.
In particular code such as

#ifdef server
while(connection== 0) {wait(1);} // wait until level loaded & connection set
#endif

is not executed when started in server mode.
Are the server and client variables not used with lite-c and if not how can I modify this code.
Also, is there a way of accessing command line arguments such as with argv[].

Thanks,
Paul

Haven't messed with lite-c multiplayer yet, so I don't know about the server command line. But maybe you can try SERVER and SV or sv, since names are now case sensitive.

The commandline can be read from the command_str STRING*.

manual says server only(?) in c-script !

you can always use connection to detect client/server or both connection

also i think server causes troubles in your mp code, because conitecs engine needs every var, string, .. in the right order on server && client to work properly.

That's good to know. Not that I'm planning to use 3DGS MP for my own projects, though..

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also i think server causes troubles in your mp code, because conitecs engine needs every var, string, .. in the right order on server && client to work properly.

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Not as long as you don't wrap your variable and function definitions inside #ifdefs. The actual definition doesn't matter, as long as they are defined in the same order.

// Bad idea:
#ifdef server
void myfunc(){}
var myvar;
#endif

// No problem:
void myfunc()
{
#ifdef server
...
#endif
}

In fact, neither of the two version would work. The correct solution is:

Code:

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void myfunc()
{
  if (connection & CONNECT_SERVER) {
    ...
  }
} 

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Oh yes, ofcourse.. I was still thinking in C-script

Thanks jcl, that fixed my problem. However I've now got another problem. When I use ent_create to create a player, the action is applied on the server but not on the Clients. ie. The model is created in the level and can be seen on the server and all clients but the action (move_player) is only applied to the server. Here's some code:

action move_player()
{

my.pan = random(360); // face random direction

// increment number_of_players
number_of_players += 1;
send_var_to(NULL, number_of_players); //send number_of_players to all clients
my.player_number = number_of_players; // set the player_number skill
send_skill(my.player_number, SEND_ALL); // send player_number skill to all clients

while(1)
{
my.pan += 5;
wait(1);
}

}


//--------------------------------------------------------------------
// CREATE PLAYER - create player at random location
//--------------------------------------------------------------------
function create_player()
{

// get random start vector around center of level
vecFrom[0] =-400 + random(800);
vecFrom[1] =-400 + random(800);
vecFrom[2] = 200;

// create player's entity
player = ent_create(str_board,vecFrom,move_player);

}

So the model created when running as the server rotates but the models on the clients do not and number_of_players is not being incremented.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Paul