Finishing Networked Multiplayer

Finishing Networked Multiplayer

Brett208 24 Apr 2016 13:38

PiscesMike,

How is the Xevious networking going?

If you don't mind the help, I'd be willing to spend some time working on it with you discussing the problems and doing some 'sprints' together. We would have to schedule before Saturday the 30th, as I'll be busy after that for a while.

Re: Finishing Networked Multiplayer

PiscesMike 24 Apr 2016 17:56

I've all but given up on getting it done. Still somewhat debating it since it seems like its 98% there…. of course thats what I thought the other night and ended up spending more than four hours working on it to still come up short.

If you want to give it another go, I'll be off Wednesday and Thursday (the 27th and 28th respectively) and we could try then if I manage to make it out of bed (feeling ill for some reason). I might give it another shot as well in the evening when I get home from work.

Just need to develop some motivation to continue.

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"May the mercy of His Divine Shadow fall upon you." - Stanley H. Tweedle, Security Guard class IV, The League of 20,000 planets

Re: Finishing Networked Multiplayer

Brett208 26 Apr 2016 00:19

Okay, I see your branch on HG now. Still should be available Tues 9PM Eastern time. I'll jump on chat sometime before then.

Re: Finishing Networked Multiplayer

PiscesMike 26 Apr 2016 01:50

Um, yeah. About that, actually…

I'm not sure what was going on, but I had some tremendous issues. In the end, I think things got merged back into the default branch (although the new branch WAS created) and in that process, things *might* have gotten slightly broken again. To be completely honest, I have no clue. I think what may have happened is that… I had some stuff that needed to merged into default, and some other things that should have gone to (and created) the new branch. Both got pushed, and I really don't know what state things are in now.. that was after about an hour of tinkering with things just to get myself pulled and updated and the other stuff blended back in. At any rate, I guess we'll see when someone tried to pull from either in the future.

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"May the mercy of His Divine Shadow fall upon you." - Stanley H. Tweedle, Security Guard class IV, The League of 20,000 planets

Re: Finishing Networked Multiplayer

Brett208 26 Apr 2016 22:34

PiscesMike,

It looks like the networking branch was merged with the default branch on your last push. It was kind of broken.

I pushed a new commit that has everything except multiplayer functioning. The collision logic and Fleet Commander Logic within GameState needed massaging. I also implemented a new constructor on NetworkManagement that takes the inputs from the settings.txt. This allows settings.txt to be parsed before the NetworkManagement code is started.

I'm wondering if the collision logic is giving you trouble when enabling network multiplayer?

Only thing else I messed with was commenting out the following lines from the Server class, AddClient method:

        private void AddClient(TcpClient newClient)
        {
            if (newClient == null) return;

            //var client = new Client(newClient, new NetworkManagement());
            //_clients.Add(client.IP, client);

            IncreaseClientCount();

            var clientThread = new Thread(HandleClient) { IsBackground = true };
            //clientThread.Start(client);

            //serverForm.AddUser(client.IP.ToString());
            CommandLine.Write("A new client connected. Client count is " + _clientCount + ".");
        }

The Server Class creates a new NetworkManagement class and passes it when creating a client. However, the Server Class is a member variable of NetworkManagement, so it seems like an odd relationship. The Server will need inputs from the NetworkManagement in order to create a new one.

I'll jump online in a little while. Got to help get the kids baths right now.

Re: Finishing Networked Multiplayer

PiscesMike 27 Apr 2016 01:59

Hey Brett208!!

I got caught up at work late tonight, so my apologies, but I won't be able to make it today.

And to be honest, I'm done working on this project. I spent more personal time chasing issues than the collab lasted, and ironing things out at this point doesn't equate well in the effort vs. payoff category. Feel free to continue and make it yours.

As for the Server.cs stuff.. I was under the impression the client needed a reference to it. After looking at things once again, I realize it actually doesn't. When the game goes to connect, it's actually looking online for that server, and not anywhere in the Xevious code. All of the Server.cs stuff is superfluous, and I'm about to make a push correcting that. For what it's worth, the original example code can be found at: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/79274/tcp-chat-application-with-both-server-and-client-logic-in-same-application It's a combination application with both the server and the client, and I guess I just carried everything over into this project.

With that being said, the Server application is actually another project. I'll put that up soon. In the meantime, you can download and use the server application from here: http://piscesmike.ddns.net/Downloads/OneApp%20Server%20Executable.zip

Thats the executable version, and you just run that in the background. If you're local, the Settings.txt should reflect a server ip of 127.0.0.1. You can run the server or the client on any machine, as long as you change the settings to the correct IPv4.0 assignments. For instance, when I was running the Xevious game on my LAN second, I had to set the server ip to 192.168.8.105- which at the time was my server address.

Sorry I can't be of more help but I can't really dedicate any more time to this project.

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"May the mercy of His Divine Shadow fall upon you." - Stanley H. Tweedle, Security Guard class IV, The League of 20,000 planets

Last edited on 27 Apr 2016 02:44 by PiscesMike Show more

Re: Finishing Networked Multiplayer

Brett208 28 Apr 2016 01:59

PiscesMike,

No problem, it happens. I hung around until around 10:30 Eastern and then called it quits myself.

I would like to see Xevious networked at some point, but for now we can call it dormant. I was wanting to work together on it, but not pick up the project solo.

Anyways, we should get a commemorative competition video setup soon!