First of all I wanted to thank you for keeping us informed on the state of development and updates you are making for this tool.

After reding these quotes I was wondering... I think that the dedicated server mode for A7 is only available in the pro version, and I was wondering if the system you are designing to be able to run withought loading levels (video_mode=0) is independant from the gs version we have. Will the comercial edition also be able to use this feature of your plugin?

video_mode = 0 works with all editions, -sv - Engines Servermode works with com and pro only.

Could you maybe add a function that allows to drop a client by the server?
And are packets(like i described) sent in one engine-frame are got by the reciever(client or server) still one after another as single packets or just the last packet sent?
So older packets aren't overwritten if they arrive in one frame and trigger the recieve-function for any packet recieved?

@Joozey: I know that I have to purchase a SDK license.
But thanks that you mentioned it!

If someone is selling his SDK license, contact me via PM, please!



enet_disconnect_client() (listed in the documentation I posted in my first post)



Packets come in the order you send them. The easierst methode for your problem would be that you split your data yourselve in your script and send it partwise with enet_send_event().
This would be the best for both (me and you). First of all I don't have to implent another feature, and you can make this excactly how you want it.

But if you really want an implented feature, I still have to think and research how this is done the easiest way with enet or if there already is an implented function for this.

The best would be to wait until I release the demo. Than you can try out if you can handle this how you want it and if not I will try to implent something that supports you


Worked on the Manual... Still a lot of things to write down ^^
Sadly I don't have much time today and tomorrow so I think that there will come no new functions until wednesday.

@FlorianP: Good news! I found out that enet automatically splits big packets => your requested feature is already implented!
I extended the limit of the max. message size of enet_send_event to 2048. Is this enough for you?

Ok I've added some new functions:
-enet_set_unreliable(var mode);
-enet_set_playername(STRING* playername);
-enet_get_playername(var clientid,STRING* playername);

The new playername system synchronizes the playernames on all clients.


Ok now it's time to think about how to name this plugin... any ideas?
The only idea I've got was "ackwire". What do you think?

how about: "acknet" or is this name already taken?

why has there to be a limit? i dont know how big theyll become - but probably bigger than 2048

I think so, but I'm not sure. I will search the forum...



Because the function uses strings and I have to init them with a fixed size. The problem is that if I use such big strings, the plugin will consume more RAM even if you don't need such big strings...
Or is there a way to generate a string in c++ with various lenght?

If your string is a char array, you could just create it with a length given by the user using new, or you could may even use the vector template for it, if you use the string template, I am sure that there is a way to use variable length as well...
Sorry, I can´t really tell you how as I have nearly no knowledge of stl yet, also it already was quite handy a few times for me, but I know that there are some ways

I btw wouldn´t buy the dll but just because I would prefer to get a little bit into the whole stuff by writing such a dll on my own :P

Of course there are many ways to create a data-struct of variable length.
One possibility is to create small structs and link them with pointers to the next struct.
Or look for malloc and calloc.

I searched google. Acknet, 3Dnet, gamenet, and gsnet are already used for unrelated things.

gs_wan is available though.