LAN hosting question

[bockert]

I'm kinda new to lacewing is there a way to see a list of hosted games among computers in a LAN?

I know how to connect to a server, but what about just finding active hosts among the local network offline?

Thanks for any help, sorry if it's been asked before and I just missed it

[RickyRombo]

I'm confused on what you mean. You could potentially use a channel for this though.

[Mathias]

Well, you could probably use the LAN enumeration features of Lacewing, by making a connection to each device. Normally, games use UDP broadcast packets to search for/tell about servers, but it's not been implemented in Lacewing yet (you can probably use the Python object, I'll see if I can wrap up an example).

EDIT: Have a look here.

[bockert]

I installed the python object but when I try to look at the examples it says "cannot run python.mfx the object might need external program or library"

Is there some step I am missing? Sorry lol, I'm dumb and don't know anything about python >.<

[LB]

That means that it probably wasn't able to extract the extension to a place where it could read it. When you run an MMF2 exe, it extracts all its extensions to a temporary place. If it can't extract them and/or can't read them than that is the issue. It can somtimes happen for no reason, try restarting your computer, maybe?

[nivram]

Also, if you had MMF2 open at the time of the installation, it will not show in the extension list until you close MMF and restart it.

Marv

[LB]

Nivram I think he has to have been able to load it in MFM2 in order to get that error in the first place. Or he could have run an EXE.

[bockert]

Restarted, still says the same thing, even on example files that come with the python object.

[Mathias]

Are you sure you've installed it correctly? Try and install Python 2.6.5, see if that helps.

[bockert]

Installed python 2.6.5, still says the same thing. As far as I know the extension is installed correctly (just unzipped the mmf files to the runtime) and the extension shows up fine in the frame editor. When I run the frame/app though it has the error message