I searched for this but couldn't find it exactly.


I need to synchronize time between clients in a real-time game. I've identified and implemented 2 different ways of doing this, but need help determining which is best for bandwidth:

Version 1
Have the host update their time to a RoomVariable ...

To specifically address your character movement, if you're not running any sort of pathfinding (like A*) and its just normal updating of an avatar's position you should use some sort of predictive movement model.

What I would do (feel free to correct me anyone) is send the message the avatar has ...

Alright, after some thorough searching, BigFIsh says:
In order for the variables to be persistent, simply set ownership to null - which will set the ownership to server thus making the variables permanent until the room gets destroyed.

My question is, if I set variable ownership to the server ...

Is there any way to catch a user disconnect and change ownership of their room variables? They're gone before I know the user is, and that's a problem. The persistence flag won't change this behavior.

Any ideas, anyone? I really need their data!

Thanks!

So this has come up more than once while I dev on my 2nd SFS game. That is, the documentation of fancy functions is quite lacking and I waste time and money trying to figure out what actually is happening when I call some of them.

Before I explain a fine example, feel free to tell me the answer is ...

Stack Trace:
com.smartfoxserver.openspace.engine.control::OpenSpaceController/createMyAvatar at /Users/Paolo/gotoAndPlay/SmartFoxServer/OpenSpace/Client/Classes/src/com/smartfoxserver/openspace/engine/control/OpenSpaceController.as:827
com.smartfoxserver.openspace.components.flash:OpenSpace ...

Thanks, rjgtav!

There's no documentation that I could find stating that User's are only able to have 5 variables. I also searched the forums the best that I could, so sorry if this has already been answered.

I found out through server logs when half my set user data was returning as null.
The max number of ...

Aha, either through our Extension being fixed - or some other bug fixing, our guess was an exception was being thrown during the middle of all the logic that is ran when a user exits a room. This exception was probably blocking the last of the code from running. It appears to be fixed now.

Thanks for the tip, BigFIsh, but unfortunately we're running version 1.6.9.

However, our lead has just discovered a bug in one of our Extensions that may or may not be related. He'll be looking into that as soon as possible and we'll report back.

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PROBLEM FIXED
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Mr. Bax, Lapo,

Again, thanks for ALL your help and support on this forum. Once again, here I am, trying to solve a problem.

I've collected a couple images and hosted them in an EASILY viewable, chronological album - the sole purpose of this album is so that you can ...

Just to confirm..

The server computes a pathing request from the user. When the user receives the new path midway between two tiles (on the Client's side) and starts using the updated path.. they will always snap back to the tile they were last on then continue their path?

That is, the path cannot ...

Is there any way for me to listen for camera pans? In our game, we'd like to disable the cursor while the camera is panning (since OS doesn't take input during that time).

Specific event?
Sinister hack?


Thanks for the help!

I'll record a video sometime this week if the error persists. If it mysteriously fixes itself - I'll let you know.

Error:
TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter child must be non-null.
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/contains()
at com.smartfoxserver.openspace.engine.control.avatar::AvatarAnimator/moveAvatarToNextTile()[/Users/Paolo/gotoAndPlay/gotoAndPlay/SmartFoxServer/OpenSpace/Client/Classes/src/com ...