Flash Player Lacewing

I intended to get some people to test it quietly and then release it when stable, but everyone seems to be preoccupied. So here's a quite possibly very unstable alpha of Lacewing for Flash Player!

You can only connect to a server that is hosting a policy file that allows it. The server on aquadasoft.com port 6121 is open to connect to regardless of where you host your SWF, and the new version of the C++ library will enable hosting a policy file with the EXE server.

Put this in your Data\Runtime\Flash folder and you should be able to build a SWF that uses Lacewing. Let me know how it goes!

Not supported in a SWF:

Channel listing (yet)
UDP/Blast
ICMP ping
LAN enumeration
Retrieving the connection time

You need to remove the "<br />" from your link. ;)

Stephen1980

Ha, done. Thanks Stephen.

Will UDP/Blast ever be supported? Or is that a flash limitation?

It's a flash limitation (as far as I'm aware).

Yeah, no UDP in Flash Player :(

I'm getting an SWF error when I build it as Flash. It doesn't give me any information about the error. Do you want me to send you my code?

So... for positioning, if we can't use blast/blast stack then what's the next best thing? Sending stack, or sending, or perhaps a movement workaround?

I'm sensing that Zombie Tag will take some major speed hits if I port to flash now...

Apparently there is some guy claiming he's figured out a way to get UDP working with Flash... but he refuses to talk about it so he's probably just trolling. :crazy:

I did a bit of research and it seems like the only way to make real time games with Flash is by using http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Stratus
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Stratus:FAQ

Lame they never implemented true UDP instead of proprietary protocols... guess that explains why there really are not many multiplayer games made with Flash.