Hello ,

I have made a working MP demo for my client.
There is a voltage bar ( similar to a health bar) which increases as player presses a button.


All is working fine and the below Panel is working fine.

When Server player is increasing voltage , then client/Server PC's can see the panel bar increasing but when client is increasing voltage , then the panel is not updating on both the machines. the code is below which is for a standard panel.

"
PANEL serverincreasingvoltagered
{
pos_x = 360;
pos_y =40;
window(0,0,240,20,redbar,display_ratio_output,NULL);
flags = refresh;
layer =10;
}

"

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Sichlid

you should send variable that moves that window/bar (display_ratio_output in your case, right?) from client to client and update each panel locally

[OFF TOPIC] Hey cerberi, nice to see you again on the forums!

Hi Cerberi,

thank you for your reply.

I am passing the display_ratio_output variable to the server and vice versa but not working.

Also when you say panel local updating , i belive panels are automatically updated locally as there is no command with which we can do it and since rest of the panels are working properly .. i think this is bug of A7 MP.

REgards,
Sichlid

you'll find plenty of A7 MP bugs along the way so i suggest you start using some MP plugin like ANet(recommended) or GSTNet

Hi Cerberi_croman,

Thanks for the links and i am also of the opinion that there are certain bugs in
A7 MP.

I shall try ANet and see how it goes.

Thanks,
Sichlid

Is this a dualplayer game only? Or how do you want to use with n panels if n players connect to your server? If you have 3 players connected to your server, all players would try to update the same variable display_ration_output, which is not what you need.

ANet does not eliminate this design problem of your code, only YOU can do this.

Variable update between server and clients works fine in A7 MP here. I think that blaming A7 bugs is wasted time, it almost always turns out that the bug is in your code. Check that youre not additionally setting it somewhere else on the server or receiving it from two different clients. Thats the most likely mistakes with variable sending.

@slacer
I have server and client only right now ( hence 2 players only).i would like to add more players in the future but for now i need to get 2 player game code working.

@Tobias

All other variables , panels ( comprising of digits and BMAP) are working properly.Except for this one which is a panel having a HBAR. only this HBAR panel
which needs to increase/decrease based on display_ratio_output is not working.
When the HBAR panel is increasing from server side ( by pressing Key1 for increasing the HBAR from right to left) ,it get updated properly on client.
But when client side is pressing key 1 to increase HBAR , there is no change in HBAR even though display_ratio_output is getting updated properly on both instances of game ( i.e server and client).

Doka

Ok guys .. i found out the bug . It was in my code as the variable to decide
the BAR length on client side was not being updated.

Thanks for all the help to everyoone.

Sichlid