Hi,

I am trying to get the demo (techdemo) coming with A6 to work in multiplayer mode. I need to create a multiplayer game and I thought that techdemo would be a good starting point to learn GS6 and see how things work, however once I understand how it works I will probably restart from scratch.

So far I tried inserting the following piece of code in the main function of techdemo.wdl after the call to message_startup():

=== snip snip

ifdef CLIENT;
ifdef SERVER;
client_move(); // sends keyboard/mouse move to server
//while( connection == 0 )
//{
// wait(1);
//}
//
//temp.x = 0;
//temp.y = 0;
//temp.z = 0;

// create(<cbabe.mdl>, temp, my_player);
ifelse;
client_move(); // sends keyboard/mouse move to server
while( connection == 0 )
{
wait(1);
}

temp.x = 10;
temp.y = 10;
temp.z = 10;

create(<fisch1.mdl>, temp, my_player2);
endif;
endif;

=== snip snip

i start the game twice as follows on the same machine:

server/client: -sv -cl techdemo.wdl
client: -cl techdemo.wdl

Result is that the server starts and one can move around, but the client crashes right after the server prints that the client has connected and the server. The server hangs en after the client crashes.

Is there something wrong in the code?
Is there a way to debug what is going-on?
Is there a multi-player example to look at that works in A6?

Thanks,

avarma

What version of A6 are you using. Are you using the beta 6.2 version because only last night i tested an old multiplayer game that did exactly what you mention. I could not work out what was wrong (if you load a simple level then it works) so i have not yet reported it. If you are using 6.2 then this might confirm the bug?

Hi,
I am using version 6.11 which is the latest trial version.

Is it possible for someone to help me with a sample small game which is working on your version, so that I can check if it works on the latest version.

Also, how do we rectify such crashes. If we can't whom do we address the bug to?

I am new in this forum and i am trying to learn this script.

thanking you,
Avarma.

Hi,
I was wondering if you have some simple sample game that works on A6. If you could kindly share the portion of client and server creation, I would be really grateful. I can learn from that and try to make my part working.
Is there any script to move an entity and transfer that info to the server and the script for the server to broadcast it to the rest of the clients or is the broadcast done automatically?
Thanking you,
Aditya

Examine the "office" level - it is client-server based. I believe it is in the 3DGS "work" directory.