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2 players/gameconnections on the same time

by Mathieu · in Torque Game Engine · 09/09/2003 (10:01 am) · 1 replies

Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out how to spawn 2 players on the same application.
I need that each player use his own GameConnection.

I've tried a lot of things but I'm stuck.
For example if I use this :
//1st player
   createServer(%serverType, %mission);
   %conn = new GameConnection(ServerConnection);
   RootGroup.add(ServerConnection);
   %conn.setConnectArgs($pref::Player::Name);
   %conn.setJoinPassword($Client::Password);
   %conn.connectLocal();

//2nd player
   %client2 = new GameConnection(ClientConnection);
   RootGroup.add(ClientConnection);
   %client2.setConnectArgs("Boby");
   %client2.connect("localhost");
Just before the game start I had a "The connection to the server time out" for the second player...

Any idea?
- sorry for my english, frenchy frog -
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Torque Owner Jared Schnelle
#1
09/09/2003 (10:30 am)
I have this working, but I've made quit a few changes in the GameConnection class, but I dont think any of them would effect what you're trying to do.

This was a project I was working on in march, so I'm a tad rusty on how everything flowed.

I created the 2nd player in game, though.

I'd load up with 1 player, then hit a button to load up the second player. When I did that I could hit another key ('E') to switch focus between the two players.

Anyhow, here is the code that I used to load the second player, once in game.

function createSecondPlayer(%client)
{
   %spawnPoint = pickSpawnPoint();

   // Create the player object
   %player = new Player() {
      dataBlock = $PlayerDatablockName;
      client = %client;
   };
   MissionCleanup.add(%player);

   // Player setup...
   %player.setTransform(%spawnPoint);
   %name = "PlayerTwo";
   %player.setShapeName(%name);
   %client.setPlayerTwo(%player);
}

You wont have a %client.setPlayerTwo(); function, because that's one I made to save off the pointer to the player, so I could switch between them in game. Everything else should work for you.

Good luck.