I will see if I can get a hook into the code to remove the crash.

while you're at it, taking out the short lag that happens when creating an mp entity would not be bad either (although probably a bit more difficult.)
for the client crash when connecting, why not just make the function return a value, and when the value's 0, it failed to connect?
just don't let the function keep trying for ever, it seems like that would cause the problem...

right now we're going to work around it with a new dll from adoado. instead of transfering a file, this new one can just "ping" the server. if he's there, we'll connect.

ûh... nothing new?

Be patient, many awesome improvements coming soon, trust me or trust me not (up to you). Fun improvements on the way. The programmer is focused on a game right now, but shouldn't be long until there is an cool Populace update.

I work with it every day. I know something, maybe.

Loco

very cool ... thanks!!

How can I connect to a user who's on the same router as me?
I want to set up a lan game.
so far, nothing has worked. I tried giving mp_connectclient an empty string as the ip address parameter, I tried giving it all sorts of ips of the other computer...

When I start the game twice on the same pc and don't give an ip adress (empty string) it connects fine. but then I get an "possible endless loop in MP_SendChatMessage" when trying to send the player name across to the host...

help?!

Micha

all right.. I got it. the ports I opened were opened at the wrong place, or something, and it's working now. the possible endless loop was actually not in mp_sendchatmessage, it just told me so because the function was IN an endless loop...

sorry guys,
Micha

Quote:

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//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//DLL Function: MP_KillEntity
//Purpose: If an entity has been removed, you MUST call this function to cleanup all copies of
// the entity that are on all remote machines.
//Parameters:
// pEnt - (type 'C-Script' ENTITY) - multiplayer entity that you wish to kill/destroy
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dllfunction MP_KillEntity(pEnt);

---

I don't get it.
"If an entity has been removed, you MUST call this function to cleanup all copies of"... if an entity has been removed, and I type: MP_KillEntity(entity) aferwards, the entity pointer is null.. so... what the heck??

also: do I call this on the client who created the entity? or the server? or... all clients?

if I use mp_killentity, will there still be an entity afterwards that I need to remove using ent_remove, like this:

mp_killentity(player);
ent_remove(player);

?? help!?

as far as I remember, killentity kills the entite on the server, but you have to remove the entitie on every client by hand.
so yes, first kill entity, then ent_remove.