Client/server script variable scope confusion w/ $mvLeftAction

#1 The $mv variables should only be set on the client.

But if you're running client and server on the same app, they'll be set all the time...

#2 $mv variables are used to tell the current control class to move in certain direction, this information is sent to the server and the server moves the object in it. Then the clients are updated with the new locations.
To detect the movement in the server you need to use server side stuff, not sure what you want to do so If you could be more precise... maybe you want to use getVelocity() which gives you a vector to which direction an object is moving.

#3 Sorry, i should have been more specific. Anytime i add stuff to my game I test it w/ a dedicated client. (from experience). My problem is happening on a dedicated client.!?

So what is happening is that when I run a client/server on one PC and then a client on another PC the dedicated client is using the client/server's $mvxxx variables. I have an item whose onUse event depends on the current $mv variables... ie when the client/server is moving backwards, and then when the dedicated client uses the item it is using the client/server's $mv.

I'm pretty sure this is whats causing the lag icon to constantly appear on both when the client/server is moving too... Seems pretty goofy to me.

Any Ideas?

Thanks,

-s

#4 The $mv stuff is mapped to some global variables in C++. Might it be those are being updated erroneously on the client/server?

#5 Perhaps... I'll have to do some digging this weekend. I'll report my findings.

Anyone else run into this kind of problem? Anyone else use movement variables for something other than moving?

Thanks to all who replied,

-s

#6 Ahh... I know what is happening.

The onUse command is a server side function, so of course it will use the Server version of the server side global variable.

You'll want to add a new datablock function or variable to hold the current movement direction.

so the onUse function would call something like:

if (%client.backwards) {

or

if (%client.getDirection() $= "backwards) {

#7 Ok, that makes sense... I think i did try %client.$mv or %client.mvxxx but that didnt seem to work. Should it ya think??

muchos gracias,

-s

#8 Stephen,

I suppose you could also get the velocity vector of the player and the muzzle vector and use that to figure out what direction the player is moving, that's the old hack I used to use in Tribes 2 (back in the day man, back in the day...)

Hope that helps,
Jeff

#9 Ah, see im doing an "insta-dodge" move where the player right-clicks and then whatever direction button is held down they shoot in that direction. I tried using v vector, but I want the player to be able to do it in the air as well w/o having air control.

But hey, I STILL play tribes 2.. not in a while, but i was addicted to renegades when I was unemployed... 420Princess

-s

#10 Ala Max Payne, eh :-)

Good man (for playing T2) I ran a mod called SangMOD if you remember playing it at all (it was a very small mod, made T2 much more tactics-based which really killed a lot of the potential fanbase :-P) Ever heard of the Ren clan BARX? [BARX]Sanguinus was my alias ;-)

~ Jeff

#11 No, i never saw SangMOD... I played solidly for about 18 months until november of 2002. When was that mod up? I dont think I heard of /seen BARX?. I really wanted to join a clan, but I had to move and had no 'net. Man I need 'net at home so I can play again (been 2 years w/o!). I think my gf would leave me though... I already spend too much time w/ el pc w/o any net access or tribes. I loved being your friendly neighborhood anti-sniper sniper / engineer...

I am making a bomberman-esque deathmatch game w/ torque and dodging is one of the items to pick up. www.pixeldreams.com I gotta work on the website this weekend, will prob add some movies and work on the color scheme (laptop at work is NOT accurate).

-s