Hello multiplayer developers,

I proudly present the new public ANet Beta (1.4.0.0). A lot of time has passend since the last update of ANet (I think it's already a year). This was due to the fact that I had nearly no free time because of another very important project. But in the last month I had enough time to finish all features I wanted to see in the new update. I also totally reworked some parts of ANet.

Here a small overview of the highlights:
* C-Script is not support anymore which leads into a much better interface
* UPnP functions for automatic portmapping (special thanks to JustSid who shared his project with me!)
* totally rewritten VoIP feature (now Peer-2-Peer based, new features like AGC, input threshold, denoiser,...)
* totally rewritten socket functions (now also tcp sockets can be created)
* now it's also possible to use different scripts for client and server WITHOUT producing additional traffic (variable names are not sent anymore in this mode)
* new internet and lan serverlist template
* ...

Please notice that you can also try this Beta without owning a full version of ANet. ANet will automatically start in Demo Mode.

For those who already worked with ANet, read the updates/changes section of the manual, please. There have been a lot of changes.

The examples and workshops of the homepage have not been updated to the new version yet.

Please download the new ANet version here: Download ANet 1.4.0.0
If you find any bugs or have wishes for changes, improvements or new features feel free to send me a message or post in this thread!

Have fun while testing!

Thanks! I´ll test it now

cool, thanks

Hmm.. i´ve got some problems with the enet_sendto function.

before i could send arrays like this: enet_send_array("points",sender,sender,BROADCAST);

but how do i do it now?
like this?
enet_sendto(points,sizeof(double)*sender,BROADCAST);

And is it possible to tell the meaning of playerstring and playervar?

The "arrayname" thing was because of C-Script and is now not needed anymore. Thus you only have to pass the address of the thing you want to send, second parameter is the size in byte you want to send.

Example:

Ah okay, so when i want to sendn just the only part of an array then it would look like this?

Example:



And is it possible to tell the meaning of playerstring and playervar?

It's something like global variables for every client (can be used for health, armor, ammo,...). But I'm currently thinking about removing this feature because you can easily do the same with a global array.

My plans for ANet are to make things more simple and compact again. I don't think that playervars were ever used by users. That new mantra is also the reason why I introduced enet_sendto() (1 function for all so to say).

If nobody is using the playervar feature, I will delete it. So please tell me if any of you want this feature to stay

I never used it until now

Mh if i remember correctly, i used Playervars in my Bombermanproject, because changing the Var for one client caused an autoupdate for all clients.(score, bombcount etc)

I'll take a look into it as soon as iam home today.

edit: by the way, is it possible to use Anet from C# or C/C++ too or is it absolutely LiteC only?

Greets
Rackscha

Yes but only in combination with Gamestudio, but I never tried it!