I've built up a structure where te server starts the functions on client side when a newly joined client creates his player.

This works fine so far by using proc_local (and proc_client - I'm not going into detail now).

My problem is, that when another client joins during the game (session_connect()) the entity of the first client is not created on the newly joined client.
What is the best way to get the entity created and updated on the client as well?

I'm not using ent_createlocal for the players on the clients - instead I'm just creating the entites on the servers, set nosend flag, move them separately on client and server and sync the clients to the server every second. This is working pretty fine so far.

But I need to get the entity appearing on later joined clients as well.
How is this usually done? Any easy solution for this problem?

Everything else is working fine - at least on a single pc

Due to your post I tested with 1 server and 2 clients (before I only tested with 1 server and 1 client) and can confirm your observation, there's still at least one bug. I'll post this in beta forum with a link to your post here.

Oh, that's a bug?

Same here, second client don't see the entity of the first one.

Does someone have any suggestions to solve this problem?

Regards
TSGames

Dont know if this can help you actually, but if you are creating the players on server, using local procedures like proc_local it should work with all clients..

Just one thing that you may check, if you didnt allready: before using proc_local dont forget do put a sleep(1);, otherwise proc_local dont update the info on clients, it needs to wait after entity creation on server, but probably you allready saw that.

Hope it helps.

My problem is solved meanwhile.
It was not a wait issue and not a bug either, but had to do with NOSEND flag being set. It also prevents further joining clients from being updated correctly.

What I did was adding a event when a client joins. If that happens, the servre sets a global variabel, and all entities poll this variable. If it is one, the NOSEND flag is reset for a short time, allowing to update the clients, and then set again.

Code:

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var vClientJoin = 0;

//assign to "on_server"
void net_sv_event()
{
	switch (event_type)
	{
		case EVENT_JOIN:
			vClient_join ++;
			wait (dplay_entrate + 1);
			vClient_join --;
			break;
			
		default:
			break;
	}
}

//call from entity server loop with "my" as parameter
void net_ent_upd(ENTITY* ent)
{
	/* in case a new client joined, enable auto send of entity for a short time 
	NOSEND must only be reset once, since this function is called every frame.
	Having a wait() will cause it to run in parallel for the same entity for
	a short time.
	*/
	if (vClient_join > 0 && (ent->smask & NOSEND) == NOSEND)
	{
		ent->smask &= ~NOSEND;
		wait (dplay_entrate);
		ent->smask |= NOSEND;
	}
}	

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This solution somehow is clumsy (the wait() inside an event function is disturbuing...) and I haven't tested it for online gaming, but in LAN it solves the problem for me.