Hi,
I know this has prob been asked alot. Ive used the search and still am not sure so....
I am trying to turn my game into an online one. At the moment it a platformer. I am trying to get it to connect 2 people together and send / receive player pos etc. No interaction is needed. Jut the players position. If anyone could help me Im not sure what to do to achieve this. Ive done a simple chat program with Moo but still unsure how to progress. Thanks
If you've made a chat app, you're pretty much there to be honest.
All you need to do, similar to chat, is to send your x & y position to the other player - but don't add that text to a list box - break it apart using the string parser (are you aware of how to do this?) into each element, then set the active object of the other player to those co-ordiantes.
It's up to you how often, and when you send that data to the other player - and also where you might want to develop your own dead-reckoning system, which predicts movement, then updates only if that changes.
I would switch to OINC first though (instead of Moo) - it's far easier, and supported with new versions coming out frequently.
Ok thanks, I'll have a try. Not really done string parser yet. I think this is where I got stuck before. My game is basically a side platform racer. SO i guess updating info as often as possible without slowing it down. Are there any tutorials do you know that could help me?
Thanks
Yep - look in the tuts on this site somewhere. They're for Moo, but the principle is the same as OINC.
With the parser: Start of game - set delimiter to "|" (or anything you won't use)
Then, when you want to send a message - send a string like (str(x co-ord of you)) "|" str (y co-ord of you))
Then, upon message received, click an action on the parser, and put 'select source string' as the recieved message.
On that same condition line, set the x position of the other player object to part 1 of the string (use the 'get element' action), and the y pos to part 2 of the string.
I think i'm almost there. Nealy works. However I tested by running two apps on my PC and noticed it works fine on the host, but the person connected only sees themselves and not the other player =|
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