RF and Multiplayer

Handless · Post by **Handless** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:27 pm

Ok I see. I'm not that skilled in networking w/ c++, unfortunately..

But as of now that is what I'm working on. I'm trying to use RakNet for it and so far it's been a struggle.. But if your interested, when I figure RakNet out I can post up some code and links, that is if I ever get it working

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jonas · Post by **jonas** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:26 pm

I'm interested! but what is Raknet?

Handless · Post by **Handless** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 2:47 am

http://www.rakkarsoft.com/ Try it out. Maybe you can figure it out and tell me how to implement it.

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:10 am

I'll look and see if I can come up with anything but I think if anyone could do it would be nout and some of the others.

[edit]Wow were did you find this? I've been googling for something like this for a while!

Handless · Post by **Handless** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:22 pm

Found it way back, around 1.5/2 years ago when I first discovered irrlicht ( don't remember exactly when ). Haven't been in need of networking till now though, and a lot had changed since I first found it. It's much better now, although you need to register to be able to use it in
shareware/commercial products.

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:44 pm

That might pose as a problem. We might be able to study how its set up, maybe inplant it in RF see how it works then make our own. I have several links to different networking tutorials Here's one

Beej's Guide to Network Programming Using Internet Sockets

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:35 pm

It appears that RF uses something called Hawknl for mulitplayer. And if we wanted to implant Raknet it looks like we may have to Almost have to start over and redo a couple of files.

Here are the files that control the multiplayer.
Cnetwork.cpp*(looks like we may have to redo this one)
Cnetbuffer.cpp
Cnetwork.h
Cnetbuffer.h

Take a look and see if i'm right please.

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:42 pm

You can look into hawknl here! I did a google search and came accross it.

looks like the same people even offer multiplayer with voice! here!

Post by **QuestOfDreams** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:56 pm

And if we wanted to implant Raknet it looks like we may have to Almost have to start over and redo a couple of files.

We are certainly not going to rip out HawkNL just to replace it with RakNet - that would be nonsense

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jonas · Post by **jonas** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:05 pm

No. It looks like hawknl is better! They have the same functions basicly and would be easier just to add more functions to the code thats allready there.

DaveC · Post by **DaveC** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:02 pm

any updates on this topic?

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:26 am

There would be If i could use the vc compiler on a 98. I would be able to test some code.