Works fine on EXE but not on SWF

Hey all, I have a bit of a problem, I have been making a game and Sumo has helped me but be both can't figure out why on the SWF the ball in my Headers game on online multiplayer mode just re positiones when it touches the heads but when an EXE, it moves smoothely. The files you may need are here: http://rapidshare.com/files/394570497/Headers.zip
or here it is on my website: http://www.rejzone.com/Headers.zip

And the SWF is playable on my website if someone else is online or you could open two at once: http://www.rejzone.com/Headers.html

Hope you can help,
Joseph Taylor

I can't download it from rapidshare .. :\

Is it small enough to be attached to your post?

Let me try.

It is 1.12MB and maximum upload size is 1MB, I have uploaded it to my website: http://www.rejzone.com/Headers.zip

I have tried it in local multiplayer mode, and I see no problem with it!

It is when you are playing online multiplayer, when you are not the host, the ball only repositions itself when it hits a head, but when hosting it moves fine and smoothly and it also works fine when built as an EXE, it's just the SWF that is a problem.

If it works in normal non online mode, the only solution is that the problem comes from the delay in the network connection.
Usually, big games use prediction techniques to guess the position of the objects before the network actually replys.
So I cant really help you here. Sorry.

Ok.

I made the online and the heads movement does use dead reckoning. The ball doesn't but it seems that the action "Start" movement for the pinball is not working :|

If you can extract an example that does not have the bug when it is online multiplayer, that would be great!

We are trying to make it so it doesn't have the bug but we don't know why it works with the EXE online multiplayer but not the SWF online multiplayer.

Could it be a bug with the SWF Exporter?

I might be looking at it being a Lacewing Flash issue and not an MMF SWF issue. I think you will need to isolate if further and send if over to Jamie for review.

From me and Sumo doing tests, we have worked out that it is a problem with doing what the recieved infomation says it has do. We had the game running on EXE as he host and SWF playing it as we know EXE works and we found out that it is deffinatly a problem with the flash version of recieving.

(i'm not sure if that makes sence)

Are you sure it is not the flash version of the movement you are using?

I am using pinball movement.

EDIT: But it works fine in all other modes. (e.g. single player and local multiplayer)

You really need to isolate it (as in - a simple example in a new MFA, not in your game) before it can be debugged or fixed.

Ok, I don't really know how the events work so maybe Sumo will isolate it for you.