Hello,
I want to make a multiplayer game where only the server must give/recieve the positions (x,y) and name of the players to/from the clients and the rest must be handled on the clients (moving e.d.)

client --> x,y,name --> server
server --> x,y,name (all clients) --> clients

! only datatraffic --> x,y,name

The players entities exist only on the clients.

is this posible within 3dgs ? and how can i do that?

Thanks

I tryed something like that as well recently, with server and clients running on the same computer (testing purposes) it worked out well after a while but i tryed to run it over network with my team and it worked but verry slowly.

I think my problem might be the sending for messages to quickly after eachother (every frame).

I did not test this yet but i will when i have time for this.

The western shooter posted a while ago was quite good too, i dont know how this was programmed but it worked out.

I hope someone with a little more multiplayerprogramming expirience can help us out here.

First you have to check if the app is running in server or client mode. Then (possibly in main() !on client!) you'll have to create if its a client an ent for that client. After that , whenever (using a loop) the client receives coordinates and a name for them , if an ent with that name doesnt exist , create it. Else , update its x,y according to the received.
Another function (started by main() on the clients) will send to the server the input (x,y and name) of the client.
The server , in the event function , if it received a var (or string,dunno exactly what you could use) send it to everybody (it'll send it to the original sender too , because you dont have ents on the server to filter that).
It isnt very hard to script that , but I just got home from work and thats the last thing I wanna do...

PS.: Using an array (to send to everybody) will be easyer , because you can stack several vars in one array and send it together. If you send an array for X,Y you'll have to send a string with name separately , and the server might receive that later than the string for another client. This will mix up the actual info the server is receiving , so...use 3 vars (x,y and ID) for data between server and clients.