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adambiser
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Posted: 10th Jan 2018 17:31
Yeah, there is so much involved with the game server/multiplayer stuff. I've never played any multiplayer games through Steam, so I have to look into how it does things. The Spacewar sample code they include with the SDK is helpful though.

Simply exporting direct access to the API functions doesn't seem like an acceptable solution. I want to make it as easy as possible to use outside the plugin, but that means that all the hard stuff is inside the plugin. I had hoped that I could skip some of the networking stuff since AppGameKit has some networking/socket functionality, but that might not be the case.

I have no estimate or guess as to when the game server/multiplayer stuff will be done.
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is there any handling for DLC?

like, GetSteamDLCOwned() ? , something?

Thanks,

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Posted: 24th Jan 2018 06:14
@IBOL: I will look into adding it soon.
(Sorry for the late reply, forum email notifications aren't working for me.)
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Posted: 24th Jan 2018 14:25
Thanks a lot, i hope that would be much easier than all that multiplayer stuff
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Posted: 25th Jan 2018 04:34
Considerably easier.
Have the code done, but need to add information about all the new commands to the wiki.
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Posted: 25th Jan 2018 06:12 Edited at: 25th Jan 2018 06:14
OK, v1.4 of the plugin is up and includes app and DLC-related commands from ISteamApps.
A DLC example project has been added and the wiki has been updated with the new commands.

Added Commands
IsVACBanned
GetAppBuildID, GetCurrentBetaName, GetAvailableGameLanguages, GetCurrentGameLanguage, IsAppInstalled, GetAppInstallDir, GetAppOwner, GetEarliestPurchaseUnixTime, GetInstalledDepotsJSON
GetLaunchQueryParam, HasNewLaunchQueryParameters
IsCybercafe, IsLowViolence, IsSubscribed, IsSubscribedApp, IsSubscribedFromFreeWeekend, MarkContentCorrupt
IsDLCInstalled, GetDLCDataJSON, GetDLCCount, GetDLCDataByIndexJSON, InstallDLC, UninstallDLC, GetDLCDownloadProgressJSON, HasNewDLCInstalled, GetNewDLCInstalled

@IBOL: The is no direct "GetSteamDLCOwned".
If you just want to see if DLC is installed, use IsDLCInstalled with the DLC App ID.
If you want to see if the current user owns it (installed or not), use GetDLCDataJSON, find the index with the matching DLC App ID and check the Available value. If 1, it's owned, 0 means not owned.

This can't be tested with Spaceware/App 480. It has two DLC packages (plus a hidden one), but they can't be installed (says I don't own them and can't figure out how to add them to my account).
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Posted: 26th Jan 2018 14:31
Wow, that's great, and super fast. When i switch gears again i will let you know if it's working on my end. Thank you!!!
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Posted: 26th Jan 2018 19:13 Edited at: 26th Jan 2018 19:14
You're welcome. The example project should show you how it can be used.

I'll have another little update with some new commands soon.

The Game Server stuff is very daunting. It looks like it will be very difficult to come up with a simple interface for it that will cover most of the main features.
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Posted: 28th Jan 2018 03:15
Another set of commands, these are utility methods and might not be useful to very many.

// Utility methods.
GetCurrentBatteryPower, HasLowBatteryWarning, GetMinutesBatteryLeft
GetIPCCallCount
GetIPCountry, HasIPCountryChanged
GetSecondsSinceAppActive, GetSecondsSinceComputerActive, GetServerRealTime, GetSteamUILanguage
IsOverlayEnabled, SetOverlayNotificationInset, SetOverlayNotificationPosition
IsSteamShuttingDown, SetWarningMessageHook

// Big Picture Mode:
IsSteamInBigPictureMode
ShowGamepadTextInput
HasGamepadTextInputDismissedInfo
GetGamepadTextInputDismissedInfoJSON

// VR Stuff:
IsSteamRunningInVR
StartVRDashboard
SetVRHeadsetStreamingEnabled
IsVRHeadsetStreamingEnabled
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Posted: 6th Feb 2018 14:48
Adam, as far as i can tell, the steam DLC "checker" command is working. I am using it just to check with steam whether a user has purchased a DLC or not, and it works, so great, wow, thanks!
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Posted: 7th Feb 2018 11:43
Before long this plugin will be making me tea in the morning.
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Posted: 7th Feb 2018 17:34
@IBOL: Good to hear. i had checked it as well, but always good to get a confirmation from someone else.

@Supertino: Might be faster than the game server stuff. Actually, I have been busy with something else and haven't had the chance to look into it further.
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Posted: 20th Mar 2018 19:59 Edited at: 23rd Mar 2018 18:12
Quote: "Yeah, there is so much involved with the game server/multiplayer stuff. I've never played any multiplayer games through Steam, so I have to look into how it does things."

Would be outstanding if this worked some day

I have a really cool project on ice, because I need Steam multiplayer features for it


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Posted: 21st Mar 2018 00:53
@PSY: I've got a few things to work on at the moment (currently finishing up some music compositions for a game demo), but I'll try to take a look at this again soon. It definitely would be a pretty cool thing to have.
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Absolutely spiffing
Looking forward to it


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Posted: 2nd Apr 2018 09:47
Wow, you are still adding more cool features to this

Today I am finally trying to get the plugin working and I am getting an error:



Could it be because I am not running the latest version of AGK2? Seems like the AppGameKit downloads aren't working at the moment so I can't test this.
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2018 20:22 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2018 20:23
@Digital Awakening:
What version of AGK2 are you using? 2017.09.25? That version introduced that function and several others, but with a typo (Impluse instead of Impulse).

I should probably trim down the number of AppGameKit functions the plugin finds. The plugin example code, which this plugin uses, imports all AppGameKit functions and this really only uses 10 at most.

EDIT: Interesting. The forum changes "AGK" to "AppGameKit".
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2018 22:05
@Digital Awakening: I've updated the code and DLL in the github repo to only import AppGameKit functions that are used by the plugin. Please try this version and let me know whether it works for you.
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2018 06:39
Thanks Adam, that works. Probably a good idea to limit the number of commands it relies on for future compatibility as well

I run the game from within the IDE and both of these prints out 0:
print (Steam.SteamInitialized())
print (Steam.GetAppID())

I there something I am not doing correctly?

I got these two lines at the beginning of my code
#import_plugin SteamPlugin As Steam
Steam.Init()

I have both steam_api.dll and steam_appid.txt write protected in the project folder.
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2018 15:39
Is the Steam client running? Are you logged in or in offline mode?

Also, Steam.Init returns an integer "bool" and you might want to store that value and check it before calling plugin commands if you ever SetErrorMode to 2, otherwise you'll get "Steam API has not been initialized." errors if Init failed for some reason. If you don't change SetErrorMode, no need to worry.
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2018 17:40
Yes, Steam is running and I am logged in.
Steam.Init returns 0.
I am not using SetErrorMode.
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2018 17:52
Are you running the IDE from Steam?
Have you tried the plugin example projects? Do they also report 0?
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2018 19:37 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2018 19:39
When I use the app ID 480 it works just fine but I have triple checked my own app ID.

Is there a step I am missing, some setting in Steam?
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2018 19:46 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2018 19:49
Using SetErrorMode(2) shows that the API hasn't been initialized.
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2018 19:54 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2018 19:57
When you say that you used app ID 480, do you mean that you used that app ID with your game code or that you are tried the project sample code?

If you use your game's app ID in the project sample code, does it work there?

EDIT: Check the false conditions here and see if any apply to your game:
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/api/steam_api#SteamAPI_Init
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2018 20:16
I tried putting 480 into my steam_appid.txt and it worked. Now I also tried doing it with my demo ID and that also worked.
Same results when using 480, game and demo IDs in an example.

It could be that I have unsaved changes in my app settings on Steam.
I got all my Achievements set up but I haven't published those changes because I don't want them showing up on Steam when they don't work yet.
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2018 20:34
Tried publishing my changes and still no luck. It works just fine with the app ID of my demo. The little Steam notification pops upp in the bottom right corner and everything.
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2018 20:41
Finally found the problem!

I was logged into my personal account that doesn't own the game. When I switched to my company account it works fine

Sorry for causing so much trouble!
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Posted: 8th Apr 2018 14:38
I am having some problems with StoreStats().

It only returns 1 the first time I call it. Then I have to turn off the game to get achievement notifications from Steam.

It doesn't work at all after I use ResetAllStats(1).

I have tried using RequestStats() but still no luck.
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Posted: 10th Apr 2018 06:48
After looking at your example I found out that I had to use Steam.RunCallbacks() every frame. And now it works

You might want to put that somewhere easy to spot in the achievements section of your documentation
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@Digital Awakening: Glad you were able to figure it out. I was away and I haven't been getting email notifications from this forum lately either for some reason.

I'll edit some of the wiki pages to include reminders for calling RunCallbacks each frame.
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Posted: 15th Apr 2018 16:03
I just released a new version of Rush to Adventure on Steam with your plugin. As a thank you I made a donation and also emailed you a free Steam key
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Posted: 13th Dec 2018 06:18 Edited at: 13th Dec 2018 19:49
A new update is out on github. Version 1.5 adds more complex Cloud functionality. The wiki page format was also changed to hopefully make the method information a bit better to read.

GetSteamPath
GetAccountID
GetSteamID3

GetAchievementID is now GetAchievementAPIName (this shouldn't be used in production code anyway)

IsCloudEnabledForAccount
IsCloudEnabledForApp
SetCloudEnabledForApp
GetCloudQuotaAvailable
GetCloudQuotaTotal
GetCloudQuotaJSON
GetCloudFileCount
GetCloudFileName
GetCloudFileListJSON
CloudFileDelete
CloudFileExists
CloudFileForget
CloudFilePersisted
CloudFileRead
CloudFileReadAsync
GetCloudFileReadAsyncCallbackState
GetCloudFileReadAsyncResult
GetCloudFileReadAsyncMemblock
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GetCloudFileWriteAsyncCallbackState
GetCloudFileWriteAsyncResult
GetCloudFileSize
GetCloudFileTimestamp
GetCloudFileSyncPlatforms
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Nice one!
Thank you so much! Can't wait to use it finally...


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Posted: 13th Dec 2018 19:48 Edited at: 13th Dec 2018 19:48
This API is for the more complex Steam Cloud methods. The Auto-Cloud functionality could be used before, but you'd have to be careful when saving scores or settings since AGK's folder is global to all users.

Files handled by the Cloud API are stored in Steam's Cloud folder for the user + app id and can't be accessed directly with AGK's commands (though one could use a raw: path.

Steam Cloud information
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Posted: 20th Dec 2018 04:29
Version 1.6 is up and adds ISteamController functions. A word of caution though: If you use these methods, you can't use AGK's Raw Joystick functions because there's no way of knowing which controller ID for one matches the controller ID in the other. Bear that in mind if you choose to use these.

New functions:
# Controller information
InitSteamController
ShutdownSteamController
GetConnectedControllers
GetInputTypeForHandle
RunFrame
ShowBindingPanel

# Controllers: Action Sets and Layers
ActivateActionSet
GetActionSetHandle
GetCurrentActionSet
ActivateActionSetLayer
DeactivateActionSetLayer
DeactivateAllActionSetLayers
GetActiveActionSetLayersJSON

# Controllers: Actions and Motion
GetAnalogActionData, GetAnalogActionDataActive, GetAnalogActionDataMode, GetAnalogActionDataX, GetAnalogActionDataY
GetAnalogActionHandle
StopAnalogActionMomentum
GetDigitalActionData, GetDigitalActionDataActive, GetDigitalActionDataState
GetDigitalActionHandle
GetMotionData, GetMotionDataPosAccelX, GetMotionDataPosAccelY, GetMotionDataPosAccelZ, GetMotionDataRotQuatW, GetMotionDataRotQuatX, GetMotionDataRotQuatY, GetMotionDataRotQuatZ, GetMotionDataRotVelX, GetMotionDataRotVelY, GetMotionDataRotVelZ

# Controllers: Action Origins
GetAnalogActionOriginsJSON
GetDigitalActionOriginsJSON
GetGlyphForActionOrigin
GetStringForActionOrigin

# Controllers: Effects
SetControllerLEDColor
ResetControllerLEDColor
TriggerControllerHapticPulse
TriggerControllerRepeatedHapticPulse
TriggerControllerVibration
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Will you be including a 64-bit DLL for AGK's 64-bit mode/player?
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I would be interested to support Windows beyond only 32-bit format. Linux would be nice also (especially for anything Steam related as a whole), but that may be far less practical.
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@SFSW: I'll look into it. The Windows 64-bit plugin should be fairly simple to do. I'll look into it soon. I have no development experience on Linux, so I can't be of much help there at the moment. Maybe further in the future.
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I've added a 64-bit version of the plugin. Appears to be working with the example projects I tested, but let me know if something doesn't.
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Fantastic, thanks! If I run into any issues, I'll let you know.
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Great! Can't wait to need your Steam plugin - it will mean I've completed my game! Would be rather cool if all these commands were integrated into the new App Game Kit Studio that TGC are currently developing - is that something you'd like?
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Time to say thanks for this plugin - It's an excellent addition to the AppGameKit library, and a very powerful tool.

Would you consider adding support for Steam workshop?

Thanks for your amazing work,

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@DavidAGK: Yes, showing plugin method information in the new IDE would be a great addition.

@Scene Commander: Thanks! I'm glad you've found it useful. I have the Steam Workshop stuff on my "if asked" list. I'll take another look at it again in the near-ish future.
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Quote: "l. I have the Steam Workshop stuff on my "if asked" list. I'll take another look at it again in the near-ish future."


Thanks for the response. That's great news, I'm sure I'm not alone in finding such an addition useful.

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Version 1.7 is out now. Roughly the same as the previous, but it's now compiled against Steamworks SDK v1.43.
Since ISteamController will be deprecated in the future, all code using it has been changed to use ISteamInput. The Steamworks SDK docs don't have a section for ISteamInput yet, so the wiki still points to ISteamController except for the new methods.

Added methods:
SetFileAttributes (Windows method) - Added mainly so that I can set steam_api.dll and steam_appid.txt as readonly in the examples since running them in the IDE causes them to be deleted on close.
ActivateGameOverlayToWebPageModal
GetActionOriginFromXboxOrigin
GetStringForXboxOrigin
GetGlyphForXboxOrigin
TranslateActionOrigin
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Posted: 4th Apr 2019 03:06 Edited at: 4th Apr 2019 03:11
Version 1.8 is up. Upgrade with caution!
If you are trying to get a release out in a hurry, stick with what you have until you have time to sort through this update.

The plugin code was completely reorganized and all-but-completely rewritten.
Many method names have changed.

The biggest change is that the plugin now has better handling of Steam's call result methods. DownloadLeaderboardEntries, for instance, now returns a call result handle. Use this call result handle to test for call completion (GetCallResultCode), then handle the results by passing it into the various result methods (GetDownloadLeaderboardEntryCount, GetDownloadLeaderboardEntryUser, etc).

This started as me wanting to change it so that more than one FindLeaderboard call can be made so requests can run in parallel rather than in series.

The examples have been updated and show the new way of doing things.

This is in preparation for expanding the functionality of plugin for workshop and game server some time in the future. This took quite a bit longer than expected and I need to work on other things, so it will be awhile.

Feel free to ask question, for help, etc. Here or on Github.

EDIT: You'll also need to use steam_api.dll v1.43, which you can find in any of the examples' folders.

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