Velojet's Forum Posts

  • Is anyone else have this issue : ...es, in IE10 on Windows 8 - but OK in Chrome.

  • Whaaat?? Spam??

  • New to construct so. Capx. Unkown.EdXonix

    Have you looked at ***READ FIRST***:how to report bugs, as Ashley advised you to do before closing your bug thread?

  • +1 for increased contrast between text and background. #666 is just too light for the text - and ClearType antialising makes it effectively lighter still.

  • SgtConti

    Since you're using Zack0Wack0�s modded plugin, you'll get the most/best help if you post in the thread dedicated to that.

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  • Also wouldn't it be better as a Plugin instead of a behavior?t was a plugin before it was a behavior! The first version (PhotonPlayer) that I published in this thread was a plugin. But the further I went ahead with the development, the more obvious it seemed that it should be a behavior that could be attached to a sprite/player, because the essential ability that a sprite/player needs have in a multiplayer game is to communicate with other sprite/players. So as it moves, it transparently broadcasts that move to remote clients, without the C2 developer having to code a 'move' message (which then has to be decoded by the remote client).

  • Thndr

    Thanks for taking the time to put down your very useful suggestions for further development.

    Photon Cloud does offer room-based management, which I haven't currently implemented in my PhotonClient behavior. Once the ExitGames team is in a position to join in, then we can tackle your suggestions.

  • SgtConti

    What server are you using?

    What C2 plugin are you using?

    Could you please explain what your "Enemy build soldier" message is intended to create?

    Is that another player that you can control? How would you control its actions as well as your own player's actions?

    Or is it your own player, which other connecting clients need to display?

  • MrOtton

    Good questions! I'm following the ExitGames Photon Cloud JS SDK examples, where the 'Join' and 'Leave' buttons are embedded in the index.html web page (my PhotonClient runtime modifies the C2 index.html to enable this). The effect is to remove from the C2 edittime the ability to modify those buttons.

    And you're right - I am still waiting for the ExitGames team to join in, so we can tackle such issues.

  • DarkevilPT

    It's best if you can tell me what actions(events), conditions and expressions are missing from my PhotonClient behavior that you need to use in editing your event sheet, in order to get your game to work the way you want.

  • Personally I think you should make a thread for the Photon plugin in the Plugins subforum, as people are more likely to see it there and know it exists. A lot of people want to do multiplayer and this plugin should make it accessible to them. Some people would be scared off with the first page talking about potential and having to read through 12-17 pages to find your work ...es, I am planning to make a separate thread. As I mentioned, I'm awaiting feedback from people who try it out, so I can first weed out any glitches. Particularly, I'd like reports from Taurian, who started this thread, and bertelmonster2k from Photon/ExitGames.

    ... Tried installing it from your link on page 13, but I get this error: ...Thndr

    PhotonClient is a behavior, so it needs to be installed in the behaviors folder.

    I just wanna understand why when I put MyPlayer on the construct visual and export it, it doesn't appear at the start of the game and I need to click some keyboard move key to make it appear. ...

    Update: Ha and why when moving top it stops after a while? (I don't need them moving but I see that happening...).DarkevilPT

    Check your server installation. It's giving 404 errors for:

    darkevilpt.byethost7.com/tugafighterdev/photon/Photon-Javascript_SDK.js

    darkevilpt.byethost7.com/tugafighterdev/css/photon_client-inputs.css

    darkevilpt.byethost7.com/tugafighterdev/cloud-app-info.js

    darkevilpt.byethost7.com/tugafighterdev/inputs_header.txt

  • DarkevilPT

    What action/event, condition or expression do you need to be added to my PhotonClient behavior?

    ... All I need is to get both connected and some message appears when player 1 is connected Like > Player 1 Connected.

    For Player 2 is connected or awaiting for player 2 to establish connection. When both are connected is up to me to code and instructions ...Can't you use the existing condition 'New web player has joined' for that?

    Give me an example of what additional action, condition or expression you want to put into your C2 game that you can't put at the moment.

    I'll be happy to add it for you :)

  • jayderyu

    Thanks very much for your comments - all very helpful and forward-looking!

    * Photon server: after some initial work with Photon Server, I abandoned it in favour of Photon Cloud, mainly because of one of the factors that you identify: "The server side API is in C#". I thought it would just impose another limitation on C2 developers if they had to do server-side coding in another language. That's why my MultiPlayer behavior uses a NodeJS backend.

    * Photon Cloud: the big downside here is that it doesn't allow authoritative server management, so although it takes away the burden of server-side coding, it means that C2 developers have to build game logic into the client - with all the gotchas that entails.

    Wink

    Thanks for your positive comments! While I agree that three minds working together can be better than one, I think that in this case, our approaches are along such different lines that. at this stage, it's probably better to pursue our individual lines of development (while definitely keeping a close eye on what each other is doing <img src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0" align="middle"> ).

    For the record (as I've just said in another thread), my aim has been to produce plugins/behaviors (MultiPlayer and PhotonClient) that operate at a much higher level of abstraction than awarmenhoven is proposing, in order to make it as easy as possible for those who want to get into multiplayer gaming but have limited experience of low-level networking - or simply prefer to work with higher level operations. So, here's the very different basic set of ACEs in my C2 plugins/behaviors:

    • Condition: New web player has joined
    • Condition: Web player has been updated
    • Condition: On collision with another player
    • Condition: Web player/s to be created
    • Condition: On my player moved
    • Condition: Web player has left (use this to destroy the associated sprite)
    • Condition: Game server is ready
    • Action: Set the web player's ID (from the C2-allocated UID)
    • Action: Initialise data of web player to create (from the server-allocated client ID and its current x/y coordinates)
    • Expression: Get current X co-ordinate of web player
    • Expression: Get current Y co-ordinate of web player
    • Expression: Get web player's C2 UID
    • Expression: Get number of web players to make (on joining game)
    • Expression: Get the player's server-allocated UID
    • Expression: Get the player's name
    • Expression: Get the player's current score
    • Expression: Get the player's current health

  • For the record, as the developer of two multiplayer plugins (MultiPlayer and PhotonClient), I'll just set out here what my angle is on awarmenhoven's proposal:

    My aim has been to produce plugins/behaviors that operate at a much higher level of abstraction, to make it as easy as possible for those who want to get into multiplayer gaming but have limited experience of low-level networking - or simply prefer to work with higher level operations. So, here's the very different basic set of ACEs in my C2 plugins/behaviors:

    • Condition: New web player has joined
    • Condition: Web player has been updated
    • Condition: On collision with another player
    • Condition: Web player/s to be created
    • Condition: On my player moved
    • Condition: Web player has left (use this to destroy the associated sprite)
    • Condition: Game server is ready
    • Action: Set the web player's ID (from the C2-allocated UID)
    • Action: Initialise data of web player to create (from the server-allocated client ID and its current x/y coordinates)
    • Expression: Get current X co-ordinate of web player
    • Expression: Get current Y co-ordinate of web player
    • Expression: Get web player's C2 UID
    • Expression: Get number of web players to make (on joining game)
    • Expression: Get the player's server-allocated UID
    • Expression: Get the player's name
    • Expression: Get the player's current score
    • Expression: Get the player's current health

    I'll continue on this development line, but follow awarmenhoven's work with great interest <img src="smileys/smiley20.gif" border="0" align="middle">

  • This is great, jayderyu!! I'm really impressed - particularly by the smoothness of motion.

    I think I'll back out of this multiplayer plugin business and leave the field to you <img src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0" align="middle" />