ReplicaNet and ReplicaObject

Security with ReplicaNet

feeds@yuku.com (JoeLudwig) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:29:21 GMT

The game I'm building is client-server with an authoritative server and requires some specific features as a result:

The master session may never migrate off the server.
Only the master session may own objects
The master session must authenticate each new client session before that session is allowed to do anything.

Some of these things seem pretty easy with ReplicaNet, but not in a hack-resistent way. I can prevent master migration by...

Trouble with the .net tutorial

feeds@yuku.com (JoeLudwig) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:42:22 GMT

I've been working through the .net version of the tutorial with the Freeware SDK in Visual Studio 2008. I've run into a couple of problems along the way.

Problem #1 is that there are some libs missing from the instructions. To get debug to link I had to add all of the following libs to additional dependencies: RNReplicaNetDM.lib RNXPURLDM.lib RNPlatformDM.lib RNXPSessionDM.lib RNXPSocketsDM.lib RNXPCompressionDM.lib

Problem #2 is one I haven't managed to fix...

Replicaobject modifiers

feeds@yuku.com (yongkimleng) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:34:19 GMT

Hi,

May I request more information on the following macros as the documentation were not detailed enough (or I wasn't looking at the right place):

_RO_DO_REGISTERBLOCK_PREDICT_FLOAT_SETMINERROR(0.5f)
_RO_DO_REGISTERBLOCK_PREDICT_FLOAT_SETMINDISTANCE(10.0f)
_RO_DO_REGISTERBLOCK_PREDICT_FLOAT_SETMAXERROR(1.0f)
_RO_DO_REGISTERBLOCK_PREDICT_FLOAT_SETMAXDISTANCE(100.0f)

How do these affect the behavior of the automatic updating frequency of an...

ReplicaNet session life & GetTime

feeds@yuku.com (yongkimleng) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:28:27 GMT

Hi,

I noticed that GetTime returns a float. It looks like GetTime is synced to the master session, so what happens when things rollover? Is there a maximum lifetime for every session started?

I wonder if there is any way to change this to a long or something larger.

Best regards,
James

Changing the session timeout value?

feeds@yuku.com (jwoznack) — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:42:50 GMT

Is it possible for me to change the session timeout value?

I'm trying to debug a client, and after it establishes a connection, it naturally runs a bit slow while it finishes its initialization. By the time it's done initializing, the connection has been closed by ReplicaNet. What I need is a way to either turn off the timeout, or adjust it to a large value (say 15 minutes) so it doesn't close the connection.

p.s. I've got ReplicaNet 5.5f.

Trouble compiling on REDHAT

feeds@yuku.com (TSamuelsen) — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:35:50 GMT

Hi!

I'm trying to use ReplicaNet on a RedHat distribution of
Linux but am having trouble compiling.

I get a lot of errors of the sort:

undefined reference to std::__default_alloc_template ::deallocate(void*, unsigned int)'

undefined reference to `std :: basic_string , std :: allocator > ::_S_empty_rep_storage'

undefined reference to `std::__default_alloc_template...

Namespaces and ReplicaNet objects?

feeds@yuku.com (QuietPath) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:19:43 GMT

I had a quick question - is there any way to set up a ReplicaNet object that is tied to a class defined in a namespace? IE:

(in .h)

 namespace Blah{    class MyClass : _RO_DO_PUBLIC_RO(MyClass)    {        ...    };}

(in .rol)

 object MyClass{    ...}

When I compile, I get errors on no appropriate default constructors, use of undefined type, etc., since...

Bandwidth Control and Compression

feeds@yuku.com (katalin) — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:13:24 GMT

Howdy people,

I am actually working on a peer-to-peer network, so I use the spider mode included in ReplicaNet. Everything seems to be very fine, however, replica updates are consuming far too much bandwidth (ab. 4 KB/s for 8 instances (as reported by ReplicaNet) but it is ab. 8 KB/s in real (as reported by Ethereal)). Shared attributes are: a float, two ints and two three-dimensional float vectors. Manual polling is used on 10 frames per second basis. I tested it on LAN and loopback,...

Reconnection Problem

feeds@yuku.com (yuxio) — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:47:54 GMT

When we use ReplicaNet as our network protocol, we encounter a problem:

First, a Client app. connected( via SessionJoin() ) to a Server app., then Client call Disconnect() to close the connection to Server.

After the disconnection, Client can't connect to Server again by calling SessionJoin().

What's the Client should do to Re-connect to Server successfully?

Newbie questions :)

feeds@yuku.com (kaitain) — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:47:05 GMT

Hi. I could use a little help with a few things. My game is a 2d, top down space shooter thing. I suppose you can think of it as a mmorpg, since it contains so many of those concepts. I'm completely new to networking.

The parts I'm unsure of are as follows :

1. I want one master server to handle every client.

2. Clients must be able to log in, so the server must store their character/ship info.

3. Server must be able to kick abusive clients, etc.

4. Players...

Assertion: Datablock mID is out of range: how to fix

feeds@yuku.com (markkjau) — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:46:51 GMT

If you have specified your own CallBackAllocate & hit this assertion:

ReplicaNet.cpp:3253: mID >= 0 && mID < (int)object->mDataBlocks.size() && "Datablock mID is out of range"

What has possibly happened is that you've created the wrong object from under your CallBackAllocate.

ReplicaNet and XPSession

feeds@yuku.com (yuxio) — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:29:41 GMT

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updating data on the client from a master session

feeds@yuku.com (martin) — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 01:28:56 GMT

I'm trying to update data on a replicate object owned by the client from a mastersession without any luck, is there something specific I have to do?

The master session sees that the data has been updated but the client does not.

Object ownership

feeds@yuku.com (martin) — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:50:18 GMT

I'm trying to let the server own all published objects, so I can update the physics and collision detection on the server only.

Using the "GiveOwnership" method on replica object does not give any feedback whether or not the object ownership was given to the server (id==GetMasterSessionID()). To verify who owns the object I call "IsMaster" on all object on the server/client and output to the UI, I don't see any changes in ownership, what do I have to do to get this...

Inheritance and ReplicaNet

feeds@yuku.com (markkjau) — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:51:08 GMT

Hi, I'd like to have an inheritance hierarchy along the lines of:

  GameObject   <---- _RO_GameObject    ^    |Monster      <---- _RO_Monster    ^    |EvilRabbitOverlord   <---- _RO_EvilRabbitOverlord

Where, say:

GameObject has float X,Y,Z
Monster has int NumberOfTeeth
EvilRabbitOverlord has float CarrotConsumptionRate

I'm looking at roughly 25 classes in a inheritance hierachy about 3-4 levels...

Load balancing question

feeds@yuku.com (jwoznack) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:07:40 GMT

How does ReplicaNet decide which objects to migrate in order to balance the load across two or more servers?

Server connection

feeds@yuku.com (martin) — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:37:33 GMT

I'm trying to test Replica using a broadband connection.

My test program runs fine on a lan but not when I try to connect to a server on the internet.

My test program uses the XPURL Transport. When I do a connect to the server it get a return code that is OK, but no packages are received on the server?

Connection code:
RNReplicaNet::Transport::Error err = transa->Connect(connectURL);

Do I have to do something special to get replica to work on a broadband...

Question on architecture

feeds@yuku.com (jwoznack) — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:59:53 GMT

(Please bear with me, I'm just starting to learn about ReplicaNet.)

Let's say I have class HUD and class Actor. The Actor class has float m_Health. I would like the HUD class to obtain the current "health" of the 3rd instance of the Actor class without having the HUD and Actor classes knowing anything about each other. (i.e. I want to decouple those classes so that the HUD/Actor class doesn't call any methods of the Actor/HUD class directly.) How can I do this using...

Max number of Connections?

feeds@yuku.com (yuxio) — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:38:14 GMT

How many connections ReplicaNet can handle in a single server program? And what's the max number of connections in real-world environment you ever test?

Linux

feeds@yuku.com (AticAtac) — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:24:26 GMT

I am currently thinking about to port my server to Linux.
Which Linux-Distribution do you recommend for using with ReplicaNet ?