Hello, I think I may have found a bug with multiplayer. In the AUM 78 in multiplayer 9, multiplayer 10 or multiplayer 11 examples when the code is compiled the client fires from the server model. I’m currently using A7.80 Commercial and it’s been tested with A7.817 by George Pirvu.

This might indeed be a bug or incompatibility of the current engine version with the code from AUM 78. I'll look into it.

Ok, it's not a bug but just a timing issue.

You're calling wait(-0.5) immediately after loading a model. The hard disk access goes into the wait time, thus depending on the speed of your hard disk the -0.5 are most likely too short. It probably worked on George's PC, but not on yours.

You could use a longer wait time like (-5), but of course this might still not work on other PCs and is anyway a bad solution. The normal way is polling the entity until the handle becomes valid. You can do it this way:

my = ent_create ("redsoldier.mdl", vector (100, 50, 40), move_players);
while (my.client_id != dplay_id) wait (1); // wait until the handle is ready
client_ent = handle(my);

I'll mention this in the manual.

I had the same thought before I posted thinking the model didn't have enough time to load, so I played with the wait states and it didn't help. When George tested it it failed for him as well. I wanted to confirm with him first before I posted and when he tried and it failed for him too he told me to go ahead and post the problem.

So I'm guessing you changed the wait states and it worked for you?

It works when I use wait(-2). But this is dependent on the model load time on the individual PC. You might need -10 or even more.

Better use the modification that I posted. That works everywhere.

ok I'll go ahead try your fix when I go home tonight.

Thanks for your help jcl

You’re awesome as usual JCL. I tested the fix last night and it worked beautifully.

Thanks again for your time and help.