community attempt at multiplayer

[psYco]

I just want to say well done to you guys so far, I must say I was although hopefull a little sceptical wether or not you guys would ever get the multiplayer even close to functional, but you seem to be doing great! Well done with this and good luck!

I would really like to help out but i dont think i could (no programming skills and I dont have easy access to a network) but i will wish you guys luck!

[scott]

well then in that case, if the projectile was sent over the net, would that make it then actualy take the health of, i belive its set up so the projectile it self tells the computer to take the health off, if it was the other way round, the computer checks every collision if it was a projectile or not then that would be simple, but i belive that we would have to send teh information about the projectile aswel, thus making it more complicated than i originaly thought.

so tasks that we would have to do:
1 determin exactly how the projectile system works
2.send infomation on projectiles over the net
3.add any other info needed to transfer over the net.

this would sort out the damage

next is the size of the actor, i belive this would have to be something to do with player setup, will have a look at this, but again i do belive it shouldnt be too hard

the hardest part mabe would be for the enemy actor, this would have to be set up similar to the client on the server, so the server controls it, this will be the hardest thing i belive. but then not that important, u just dont get any ai actors in multiplayer.

[LtForce]

So how's that script coming up guys? I just know you're doing great

[jonas]

Does anyone know what kind of modifications need to be done to the source to get it to work with ms vc++ 2005? viewtopic.php?t=482 is this how we do it?

[paradoxnj]

Start with these:

1. Add _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE to the preprocessor definition list.
2. Define all variables in the beginning of the functions. VC2005 does not allow them to be defined in the middle of functions anymore (this includes for loops).

[jonas]

Thanks. it can't seem to find the mfc libraries. How do I fix this?

[LtForce]

if this is c++ then write this before all code: #include<mfc.h> . I'm just a begginer programmer, but hope that works

[QuestOfDreams]

Does anyone know what kind of modifications need to be done to the source to get it to work with ms vc++ 2005? viewtopic.php?t=482 is this how we do it?

No, that was about the problem that Microsoft does not support Visual Studio 6 anymore and newer DirectX SDKs don't work with it.

2. Define all variables in the beginning of the functions. VC2005 does not allow them to be defined in the middle of functions anymore (this includes for loops).

Uhmmm... were did you get this one from?

Thanks. it can't seem to find the mfc libraries. How do I fix this?

Visual Studio C++ 2005 Express does not come with MFC. (It also does not come with the platform sdk which you have to download and install separately.)
This is the reason why I want to replace MFC with wxWidgets in the RF code...

[paradoxnj]

Uhmmm... were did you get this one from?

This is one of the "new" features. Strict C++ conformance. We had to do this for the entire Jet3D codebase to get it to compile with 2005. We kept getting "illegal variable" errors and found out that:

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Jonas, if you are using the Express edition, it will not recognize MFC. There is a trick to get it to recognize it, but it's not worth the aggravation.

[jonas]

Jonas, if you are using the Express edition, it will not recognize MFC. There is a trick to get it to recognize it, but it's not worth the aggravation.

Hey if you could point me in the direction I would be willing to deal with the aggravation. It can't be any more aggravating then sitting here never being able to compile rf.

This is the reason why I want to replace MFC with wxWidgets in the RF code...

Yes but unfortunatly it will be a painstaking process that could take a very long time. It will be awesome once this is done though, we should be able to compile in pretty much any compiler.

[paradoxnj]

What is the RF Game Shell using MFC for? Maybe I can convert the code to the Windows API.

[jonas]

looks to be mostly just the window coding. but I'm not very familiar with mfc so I don't really know what mfc functions look like. So there could be more.

[paradoxnj]

MFC is a collection of classes like CWnd, CSplitterWnd, CListBox, CComboBox, etc... Search for #include <afx.h> at the top of any source file. If that is found, that particular file is using MFC. Let me know which file and i'll find the MFC stuff and convert it.

[jonas]

We have a small problem. afx.h isn't included stdafx.h is though but included in rabidframework.h and it seems it is used in almost every file. So now what?

[paradoxnj]

Sounds like it uses a precompiled header. stdafx.h is usually a precompiled header. In the project properties, does it link with MFC libs at all?