Connecting to the local server we've just created

[troglodescu]

I'm using the ExampleMenu.cs as template for all my network functionality. Of course some things must be changed and I don't know how, like the following:
- After calling TNServerInstance.Start(serverTcpPort, udpPort, "server.dat", lobbyPort), and after TNServerInstance.isActive returns true, I want to automaticaly connect to the local server that was just created but I don't know what address to use.

Also, I would generaly need a way to allways know the IP address when pausing the game for instance, so other players can connect manually to that address.

I currently use this which works fine on everything except iOS:

1.  try
2.         {
3.  
4.             string sHostName = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();
5.             System.Net.IPHostEntry ipE = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(sHostName);
6.             System.Net.IPAddress[] IpA = ipE.AddressList;
7.  
8.             labelIP.text = "Your I.P.: " + IpA[0].ToString();
9.         }
10.         catch (System.Exception e)
11.         {
12.             Debug.LogWarning("tried to read IP but smth failed " + e.Message);
13.             labelIP.text = "Offline";
14.         }

I'm sure there's a better and safer way to get the IP (Unity/Tnet wrapper functions) address regardless of the device or OS.

[ArenMook]

Use "TNet.Tools.localAddress" as the address when connecting to yourself, or simply "127.0.0.1".

[troglodescu]

Thanks for the answer.

I have another minor issue concerning TNet:

if( TNManager.isConnected == false ) it seems that you cannot use Send("RFC_Name", aPlayer) (because it is not connected, that player is of course the Host), only use Send("RFC_Name", Target.Host or Target.All, etc). So the Send function that uses the Target enum works and the one who uses Player as target doesn't. Is it supposed to be like this ? Now I have to write two different codes for online mode and offline:

1. if (TNManager.isConnected)
2.         {
3.             tno.Send(2, TNManager.GetPlayer(aPlayerID), positionToSpawnAt, rotationToSpawnAt);
4.         }
5.         else
6.         {
7.             tno.Send(2, Target.Host, positionToSpawnAt, rotationToSpawnAt);
8.         }

I'd rather just use one line of code which I expected to work since aPlayerID is the only player around, thus should just send it to itself

1. tno.Send(2, TNManager.GetPlayer(aPlayerID), positionToSpawnAt, rotationToSpawnAt);

[ArenMook]

Hmm. Well, my question is why are you trying to send a packet to a player when you are not actually connected? If you want to send a packet to the host, you should be doing just that. If you want to host a packet to a specific player... that implies that you should be connected by that point, as otherwise there are no players to choose from to begin with.

[troglodescu]

Yeah, I guess you're right.

My logic was the following:

Step 1: Send request to host to see where to spawn. The RFC contains the Player ID so the server knows where to send back the answer.

Step 2: Host receives request from the player that started step 1 (if not connected, it is one and the same) and server decides where that player should spawn, so send back to that player the spawn RFC

Step 3:

Step 4: Profit

I was thinking that even though I'm not connected, I could still juggle with TNet's mechanics and there are still players (only 1) and sending RFCs to that player would behave the same connected or not.

[troglodescu]

While I have your appreciated attention, there's another issue that bugs me about TNet:

If there's any error in the call of an RFC, it allways returns the very general and non-helpful exception Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. so it is very difficult to track the runtime errors

Is there a way to make these errors more explicit ?

[ArenMook]

In the editor you should get more than just that exception. It actually tells you what function you are calling and what arguments it expects to have.