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Title: My First Step To Multiplayer Mission Editing
Post by: haroon1992 on 22 Jun 2010, 17:39:44

I am now trying to make First Strike a multiplayer mission.

And i am trying to add Who killed Who messages in the game.

Trigger  : Anyone,Present
Radius = 500
{_x addeventhandler ["Killed",{_this exec "eh_killed.sqs"}] } foreach thislist

eh_killed.sqs

Code: [Select]

_man=_this select 0

_killer=_this select 1

;show who killed who
?_killer!=_man : message = "_killer sidechat format [""%1 killed %2"",name _killer,name _man]"

;show the following if the unit has killed by himself
?_killer==_man : message = "_killer sidechat format [""%1 was killed accidentally"",name _killer]"

publicvariable "message"
call message
exit
I run the game in a single computer,two instances of ofp,one is the host and other the client.
The messages only show up in the host computer!


SO i tried the following and the result is the same!


Trigger  : Anyone,Present
Radius = 500

Code: [Select]

{_x addeventhandler ["Killed",{hint format ["%1 killed %2",name (_this select 1),name (_this select 0)}] } foreach thislist

Any idea on this ?

The main problem is how do i transmit messages to ALL computers including the server (IF its a host ,not dedi)

I found the use of a gamelogic , but it is impossible in ofp since i cannot use
setvehicleinit and processinitcommands  in OFP

Regards,
Haroon1992

Title: Re: My First Step To Multiplayer Mission Editing
Post by: RKurtzDmitriyev on 22 Jun 2010, 18:27:10

Hi haroon.

The problem is that, as the biki says (http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addEventHandler), "killed" and "hit" eventhandlers are executed where the unit to which they are added is local.

Also, in OFP it was not possible to transmit strings using publicvariable, (http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/publicVariable) so I'm surprised you haven't gotten an error from this:

Code: [Select]

?_killer!=_man : message = "_killer sidechat format [""%1 killed %2"",name _killer,name _man]"
?_killer==_man : message = "_killer sidechat format [""%1 was killed accidentally"",name _killer]"

publicvariable "message"


Quote

I found the use of a gamelogic , but it is impossible in ofp since i cannot use
setvehicleinit and processinitcommands  in OFP

Well according to the biki (http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/createUnit), the initialization of units created with createUnit is executed on all computers. So, try something like this:

Code: [Select]

_message = format [{%1 killed by %2}, _killed, _killer]
_code = format [{player sideChat {%1}},_message]
"Logic" createUnit [someplace, specialLogicGroup,_code]

Another way is to set up a trigger or looping script that will check to see if a message has been sent, then display the text for each player.

Code: [Select]

#re
killed = objNull
killer = objNull

#ch
~0.1
? killed == killed : goto "ch"

@(killed == killed)
player sideChat format ["%1 killed by %2",name killed, name killer]
goto "re"

And have another script (the "transmitter", if you will) send messages when people are killed:

Code: [Select]

;execute from an eventhandler
killed = _this select 0
killer = _this select 1

publicVariable "killed";publicVariable "killer"
exit

This will probably be less efficient and reliable than the gameLogic creation hack described above, though.

Title: Re: My First Step To Multiplayer Mission Editing
Post by: haroon1992 on 23 Jun 2010, 17:01:41

EDIT :
NVM.

I experimented with triggers yesterday, and found that there is no need to use PV command.
Not tested it with WPs though.

And the gamelogics i create must have a valid group, so i grouped them to the 'server' gamelogic  :cool2:
I think I am ready for a basic MP Mission...



Regards,
Haroon1992