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DarkBASIC Discussion / Starwrath did it, Right?

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Dark Dragon
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 02:09
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My Topdown shooter's coming along fine, and the single player mode is nearly 80% complete. But A problem keeps on bugging me: When I am done with my single player mode, how am I going to get past Lan and on to Wan with DB? Even the Great TDK(At least at the time he wrote his tutorial)cant seem to get a simple chat server running over the Internet. I understand that this is greatly due to the fact that a router requires a port number ,and Db doesnt give you any control of that

But if I remember correctly, Starwrath 3 could be Connected to a server and allow online play. Does anyone have any idea how it was done? Some sort of dll, maybe?

-DD

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 02:15
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Edit doesnt work.

Looked at TDK'S tutorials, Does any one know what happened to the multiplayer tut part two? that would be helpful to.

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 02:16
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I dunno- if you're OK with DLLs, then use Multisync. That one's easy and supports up to 9999 clients lol.

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 02:18
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Does it get past the Wan "Lock"?

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 02:20
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Um, I don't know, DD. I think it will try to connect to the specified IP, even if you only have LAN set up. As far as the WAN lock goes, once you connect you're a part of the LAN, so it doesn't matter.

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 02:27
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The Lan(Local Area Network) is a networking of computers. by Wan(wide area network) I mean the internet. the problem is not that Lan wont work, its Wan.

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 12:40
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I've never understood how the internet works, but all the StarWraith games past SW3 have had a multiplayer internet connection. Evochron Legends comes with the multisync dll, and I assume it can handle a WAN connection (I've never played online myself, but it's one of the big selling points)

If you download the trial of DBPRo, and look in "Dark Basic Professional\Help\documents" you'll find a file called "2 Multiplayer Secrets.htm". It's a multiplayer tutorial written by the guy who created StarWraith, and it is very good. I'd upload it here, but I'm not sure if I'd end up in trouble with TGC.

Failing that, you could always ask on the StarWraith forums as the game's creator ('Vice') is very helpful, and even has a board devoted to game making!

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 17:09
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Quote: "Evochron Legends comes with the multisync dll,"


I thought it was benjamin....

I've figured it out, i think.

In Db alone, there is no way to set the port number, but with multisync They give you a set of commands to do it.

I belive this elmenates the problem. I will ask if there are any more probs though.

-DD

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 21:24
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You are correct, my tutorials are written to work with DBC's core commands and as has been pointed out, router ports are the problem for internet connections as DB's multiplayer commands use DirectPlay (if I remember correctly) and random ports are used.

I suppose if you opened all ports on the router it would work, but I'm not daft enough to try that and I suggest no-one else tries it either...

With an external DLL, you don't have these limitations - like Sean did for Starwraith.

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 23:03
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Hey, Tdk! He IS back....

What happened? I cant seem to find Your Multiplayer tutorail Part two..?

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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 20:11
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Ok I didnt Find The Tut by Vice.............

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I maybe wrong, I have not tested this yet but going to. when you set the net connection it needs secion number and address so wouldn't ya put #.#.#.#:p where #.#.#.# is the IP address and p would be port number like;



I don't Know if that will work but I will be checking it out later to see, good luck
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