after more than 24 hours of fumbling with 3dgsNET I decided to try out ANET. This is my new problem. I placed the .dll in the wedplugin folder. I put the anet.h file in my source code folder. I used #include "anet.h" I made an empty project just to see if i had my include set up correctly, it compiles fine but I never get the game screen it just exits.



Shouldnt this at least give me a blank screen and wait for me to hit ESC?

Yes, it should give you a blank screen because wait(1000) does nothing. But maybe something inside "anet.h" calls the sys_exit command immediately.

There is a whole workshop about multiplayer in the tutorial, so why don't you use that first for getting started?

I couldnt find ANET tutorials, I tried the GS ones but could never make a connection to my own server, even when using local instead of IP.

Then, I think you wont have any better luck with ANET.

When you give no IP, it connects with "localhost", which is just the same PC. For connecting with a different PC on the LAN, you must give its IP, which on a LAN always begins with 192.168. When youre a beginner and just want to start easy, run client and server on the same PC, then you dont need to care about the IP at all.

Yep, this I know, and that I did, for some reseason even after it finds the server it then tells me "no communication established."

Thanks for the replys Tobias

Hmm, maybe its some issue with the Directplay or winsock library on your PC, that would explain why ANET doesnt work either. I've done some tests with multiplayer some time ago and found that the internal network library and ANET are both pretty reliable.

Maybe you can post the acklog.txt that you get after starting with -diag, this could tell something about whats wrong with the communication and why ANET exits immediately.

I have other development software installed like visual c# express and Visual C++ do you think they might be causing a conflic?

Well to trouble shoot this I took the ANET tutorial program and put it on a different computer and the client and server would not connect again. That comp isnt set on a network so I know it was running local. This is making me insane... Can't understand what is going on.

There are several things that come into play:
- firewall (Microsoft, Symantec, ZoneAlarm,...)
- the command line options you used to start client and server
- your code (did you try other published network apps created with gamestudio?)

until we know more about your system, we can only guess blindly

Thanks for the reply.

I have shut the firewall off and I am running no other anti-virus software.
I have tried starting the client with -cl -ip 127.0.0.1 -port 2300.
I have tried the code from ANET's 3d chat tutorial, also the SED tutorial 25 that deals with mp gaming.

The serves seams to be initializing just fine however the clients never find the server. I am about to break down and learn WinSock LoL!