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TNet 3 Support / Feature request: Server ID in Serverlist

« on: May 28, 2013, 02:08:01 PM »

Hi ArenMook

Is there a reason, that Gameserver ID is not available in the Serverlist and Entry object ? This ID would it make easier to identify Gameservers instead of using a combination of the internal and external IPEndPoints as unique key. Or did I miss something?

Cheers, EdLan

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TNet 3 Support / TNServerInstance.MakePrivate();

« on: May 28, 2013, 08:16:33 AM »

Hi @all

How can a game server which is marked as private with TNServerInstance.MakePrivate being marked as public again?

Cheers, EdLan

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TNet 3 Support / Elegant practice for Ping values for servers listed in the lobby server list

« on: May 17, 2013, 05:24:33 PM »

Hi @all

Currently I want to add in my server list (where the clients get from a centralized lobby server) an individual ping value which shows the ping value between client to another remote host.

Imagine following scenario:

- One centralized lobby server which is located for example in the USA
- One player which starts a game server to initiate a multiplayer game. This host will announce itself to the lobby server mentioned before. This player is located for example in Europe.
- Another player, which is also located in Europe goes trough the server list lobby and wants to pick a server with a low latency time.

In this situation it's very likely, that the two players which are both located in Europe will have a low ping latency.

But how do I get this ping value without connecting each server from the lobby server list separately with a TNManager.Connect(abc),  TNManager.ping and then last but not least disconnect with TNManager.Disconnect()?

Isn't there a more elegant way? I was considering a sum of the ping value from player A to the lobby server and summarize it with the ping value of player B to the lobby server. But this solution would definitely not reflect the "real world" situation when we look at the scenario mentioned before, because the latency between both players located in Europe would probably be much smaller when they would connect directly compared to the sum of both ping values (ping from player A to lobby server summarized with player B to the lobby server...

Has anyone a nice solution for that without connecting to each game host separately?

Cheers, EdLan

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NGUI 3 Support / Strage UIGrid / UIDraggablePanel behave [SOLVED]

« on: May 11, 2013, 05:33:29 PM »

Hi @all

Currently I have a strange behave, when I try to add prefabs with a UIDrag Panel Content Object attached per script to a UIGrid. Here is my code to add a prefab to the grid:

1.                         GameObject item = NGUITools.AddChild(ListGrid.gameObject, prefabEntry);
2.                        
3.                         item.GetComponent<UIDragPanelContents>().draggablePanel = DraggablePanel;
4.                        
5.                         UILabel label = item.transform.FindChild("Label").GetComponent<UILabel>();
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When I run this code on runtime, then the items of the grid are not movable. They don't react on mouse events when I try to scroll the grid content up and down.

When I add the same prefab(s) to the grid in the Editor, then it works without any problem. Has anyone an idea what I forgot? Currently I use NGUI 2.6.1e

Cheers, EdLan

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TNet 3 Support / Different Server (Lobby Server, Data Server and clientside Game Server)

« on: April 24, 2013, 03:06:53 AM »

Dear Cummunity

I would like to realize a game with the following server / client concept:

- A Master Lobby Server (TNet Lobby Server Client)
- A Master Data Server (TNet Server / Client ) (for Login evaluation, centralized profile storage, etc.) This server should be connected from every game client directly to load / save profile data (for example). This server has a connection to a database with user and group data.
- And last but not least a Game Server (TNet Server / Client ) which is local. This should handle the normal game object sync.

Currently I have a centralized lobby server and the "local" game server which handles the object syncing, and so on. But I'm not sure what's the best way to realize the centralised Master Data Server. Should I create a second TNet Instance which communicates to the master server? This may could be fine because of the RFC event system. Or should I implement an own TCP handler to communicate to the master server, but

The reason for the "Master Data Server" is, that I don't want, that the game clients directly access the main database.

The reason for the "local" Game clients is simple the performance and the bandwidth saving, so that only the game result, login, and so on has to be sent to the Master Data Server.

Has anyone experience what the best and most robust solution for this scenario would / could be?

Or is there another simpler solution for that? Maybe I don't see the most obvious solution for that, because I was studying around the concept too long...
 
Another question is the related to custom packages: Is there an elegant way to realize custom packages without messing around ever and ever again when a new version of TNet is released and I would keep my code up to date?

Thanks in advance, EdLan