I did some searching for this sort of thing and nothing came up...Would there be a dll or a technique which allows you to download files from a website while in game and save them to a certain directory?

Thank you

David

you mean that the client'd be able to connect to a specific place (e.g. patch information file), download it, open and check it, and possibly then download the new patch?

It's possible, and if it's not already available, it's not hard to do such dll. I'm not sure, but such thing should be available to be done in Lite-C too.

Thanks Inestial!

I think the patch is the same, but more specifically say for example you had an image that was displayed in game and was identical to one on a url, and each time you started the game it would automatically check to see if the url's image had changed and download it to your game's directory automatically. so every time you played the game it would have the most up to date image displaying.

I've never looked into this and not sure where to start..I've never done dll programming so I'm curious as to what options are available. Anyone who is familar with lite-c knows if this may be scripted in it?

there is a couple of them available, I know micheal_scharwz or whatever his name is used one in his multiplayer shooting demo prototype. also there is like a http downloading dll that I believe has that feature as well.

If you need to download files at runtime via 3dgs you could, depending on what you needed:

Check out my DLL in my sig ^^ It can transfer a file from one 3dgs application to another, via TCP.

If you wish to download a file via HTTP (webhost) or FTP or something similar, I may be able to write one for you, if you want..

Thanks,
Adoado

gshttp from peacekeeper <= A6.40
I think BigDll from Triplex has
GSTNet non-blocking HTTPRequests >=A6.50

Thank you! I'll check these out and hopefully let you know how I get on.

I use gshttp. works great for exactly that purpose. but it's a6, dunno if it works with a7.
I download a file and use the information.
there's an example made by someone (sry, I don't remember!) that downloads the file "pink elephant" and saves it onto your pc. then it loads the file and uses it in game...
so you can download models and use them during run time...

Micha

Is this corfimerd to work in a7 ? cause when i make get thing to a picture the string that cames, is like encoded with 200 chars for example, and the string only contains the first 5? cutting the rest and then off course the image is not saved..