Multiplayer Example with Custom Movement?

Hi,

I am trying to create a Diablo-style multiplayer RPG. Characters should move towards the mouse when held down. It works fine as long as I am not running a multiplayer setup (single player / only host).

Once a peer is connected, any input makes the characters move in a weird way and they do not seem to stop at all. When debugging, I can see that the vector of the custom movement never resets to 0, so that might explain the continuous movement, although I can confirm that I stop / set velocity to 0. When in single player, that works without issues.

Long story short, I am not asking you to debug my game. Instead, I am looking for any working example where multiplayer is combined with a custom or "move to" movement behavior. I can only find 8D examples and it would be helpful to have proof that other movements are even supported in multiplayer.

Thanks!

sounds like you are mixing up the inputs, which I remember was hard to get straight. I have done very little with multiplayer, but was helping my son with a game he wanted to make a couple years ago. We lost the source capx file in a hard drive crash, but you can still run one of the tests here:

https://www.rieperts.com/games/Ocean9

You are a fish, and it follows your mouse around the screen. When you click it will eat the little white planktons, which makes you grow. I think the goal was to get bigger than other players and eat them.

So, this wont help much, but shows that it is possible.

Allan, thanks a million times for taking the time to write a response! You are awesome!

You were indeed right, I messed up some inputs due to copy / pasting stuff (used X where it should be Y).

One more question: Did you encounter the problem that there is a slight "rubber banding" happening for the peer when suddenly stopping the character? The host seems to move the character a little bit further than the peer and then corrects it afterwards.

I could mitigate it by sending the exact coordinates where the peer wants the character to stop, but there is still a tiny little rubber banding happening as the server overshoots.

yeah, I remember that happening... but I don't remember if we got far enough to do much about it.