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Doctory · Post by **Doctory** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:29 pm

I'm trying to make a multiplayer game using UDP, I found the tutorial on the wiki, but I don't know how to be able to make server hosting, joining, chatting, all over a console.

Any idea?

Plu · Post by **Plu** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 8:17 am

Maybe the examples in this thread can help you out?

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=76711

I've not worked with this myself, so not much more I can offer.

Germanunkol · Post by **Germanunkol** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:39 am

As in the thread Plu linked to, you should use the built-in Enet library that ships with version 0.9.0.
It has a lot of functions specific to gameplay where UDP doesn't. Also, what's more important, Enet has a "reliable" mode if I remember correctly - marking packets as reliable will make sure they arrive - something that you can't do with plain UDP.
In fact, you should first try to only send in reliable mode - otherwise you'll run into unecessary problems. You don't need unreliable mode unless you get the server into difficult situations with lots of players.

Doctory · Post by **Doctory** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 12:11 pm

Thanks!

MPQC · Post by **MPQC** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 3:25 pm

Germanunkol wrote:As in the thread Plu linked to, you should use the built-in Enet library that ships with version 0.9.0.
It has a lot of functions specific to gameplay where UDP doesn't. Also, what's more important, Enet has a "reliable" mode if I remember correctly - marking packets as reliable will make sure they arrive - something that you can't do with plain UDP.
In fact, you should first try to only send in reliable mode - otherwise you'll run into unecessary problems. You don't need unreliable mode unless you get the server into difficult situations with lots of players.

If you need reliable then using UDP is not what you're looking for (ie use TCP).

Post by **slime** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 5:04 pm

MPQC wrote:If you need reliable then using UDP is not what you're looking for (ie use TCP).

ENet is designed to be able to do (optional) reliable UDP, and ends up having far less overhead than TCP - which makes it ideal for real-time games: http://enet.bespin.org/Features.html

MPQC · Post by **MPQC** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 5:41 pm

slime wrote:
MPQC wrote:If you need reliable then using UDP is not what you're looking for (ie use TCP).
ENet is designed to be able to do (optional) reliable UDP, and ends up having far less overhead than TCP - which makes it ideal for real-time games: http://enet.bespin.org/Features.html

Neat.

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