Bootcamp Multiplayer Demo

Hello ExitBG,

Thanks for this demo Greatly Appreciated!!! I do have one question though:

There are 2 links from your ftp
1) bootcampMultiplayer.unitypackage size: 260 MB, Date Modified: 3/3/2011
2) BootcampMultiplayer_v1.1.unitypackage size: 90 MB, Date Modified: 3/14/2011

Which one is the correct one? 2) seems to be smaller in file size which is why Im thinking may be the wrong one but that one was also modified at a later date which makes me think its the correct one? So from your ftp which link should I choose.

last note: I had issues with the asset store not downloading which is why I listened to you for the ftp link

EDIT:
The first one works fine

 

oh - I aborted the 1.1 upload since it's similar to the one in the asset store.
wasn't aware that the partial file would stay
the only difference 1.1 to 1.0: it includes the file needed to fix the physics issue (walk over water)

 

Sorry i can't download this demo in Asset Store.

It's always stop in 33%, and I waited about five or six hours.

 

It seems that the asset-store download is still not working for some users. In that case, you can still download the demo also from this FTP:
ftp://216.151.161.122/

 

man, how i install this server? or how can i play this game in network? please! need help!

 

setup is described in readme.txt:

 

to TobiasS, ExitBG

Thanks a lot : )

 

Can somebody please explain the code

t.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(t.transform.position, player.playerRemote.pos, Time.deltaTime * 7.0f);

I understand that this smooths the other players movements but what is the reasoning behind:

Time.deltaTime *7.0f?

 

I installed Photon and I did everything correctly. When I build the game I can create a room but when I play, I can't move. Also nobody else can see my room I created.

 

Is there any output in the console or player logs for any of the clients you used?

 

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1) Photon Setup (requires windows xp or later)
a) Extract ExitGames-Photon-BootcampServer.zip parallel parallel to \Assets folder
b) Go to the extracted folder and start \bin\PhotonControl.exe
c) Right-click the Photon tray icon and select "start as application"
d) Allow \bin\PhotonSocketServer.exe through the windows firewall (see http://developer.exitgames.com/photonserver/firewallsettings for detailed instructions)
OR
follow instructions at http://developer.exitgames.com/quickstart/photoninfiveminutes
2) Open Unity3d scene BootCampLiteLobby.unity with Unity 3.2
3) If photon is started on another machine: Set new Photon IP and Port in \Assets\Photon\Game.cs line 33 (default is localhost)
4) Build and run as standalone or as web player

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i'm working step 2 "2) Open Unity3d scene BootCampLiteLobby.unity with Unity 3.2" but error by console help me

 

never seen that... did you try with the newest unity version? (It should say "3.2 or newer")
When and where did you download the package?

 

This can happen if you extract the server part into Unity project ).

 

I agree.

Are there any plans to improve the example?

 

There are. No release date set though.

 

Only to say that all have worked OK in the first try.Congratulations!
Like you can see here:
http://www.dmu.com/bootcamp.jpg
What I don't like on all the multiplayer demos and tutorials I have seen until now is: we have allways "clone's wars"! All the avatars are clones!
I would like to know how to create a multiplayer app having not an unique avatar...
Now I will try to understand how Photon works...

 

Adamascj, is possible change opponents avatars, i did already.
My problems is another, i already asked the developers and sent some PM's, but no one answer me yet.
I can't see other players shooting me, i mean, the fire animation... Anyone have this problem too?

 

Xentar, I couldn't find your "fire animation" question in our forum. Maybe it didn't make it for some reason??
Please post it again.

 

Did again, thanks TobiasS
Is extrange, cause all is there, but don't work...

 

Thanks for reporting this Xentar. (http://forum.exitgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=547)
Solution:


1) edit Gun.js: add

Code (csharp):

1. public var Soldier: GameObject;

2) edit Gun.js: replace

Code (csharp):

1. transform.root.SendMessage("Fire",h, SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);

with

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. Soldier.SendMessage("Fire",h, SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);
3.  

3) Assign the Soldier to each Gun in editor (drag and drop to Gun.Soldier): Soldier --> GunManager --> M4 + M203

 

Anyone else having issues with this not accessing the internet? I cant post on the official forums as I can't remember my username.

To go further, when I have the server up and running I cant see port 5055 on the server I have also tried swapping the ports out.
Now when I take the server down I can see the port using port forwards tool. So this leads me to believe it is a problem with Photon itself. Can anyone elaborate?

And just so you know, I do have firewall off, and the server in the DMZ.

Server is Win2k3 not that it matters

 

Internal compiler error. See the console log for more information. output was:
Unhandled Exception: System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: The classes in the module cannot be loaded.

at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.Assembly:GetTypes (bool)

at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Mono.CSharp.RootNamespace.ComputeNamespaces (System.Reflection.Assembly assembly, System.Type extensionType) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Mono.CSharp.RootNamespace.ComputeNamespace (Mono.CSharp.CompilerContext ctx, System.Type extensionType) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Mono.CSharp.GlobalRootNamespace.ComputeNamespaces (Mono.CSharp.CompilerContext ctx) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Mono.CSharp.Driver.LoadReferences () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Mono.CSharp.Driver.Compile () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Mono.CSharp.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0



I have the same problem as well as at eotiti. What to me to do?

 

You should try to start from scratch once more, following the instructions.
We couldn't reproduce this issue so far, so we don't know how to fix it yet.

 

I just submitted update 1.2 to the asset store. It's currently being reviewed by unity.
The update contains the fire animation sync fix.

 

How would you suggest adding raycast checking on server side?
Running a special unity standalone build in batchmode for each room (which connects to Photon via localhost as some kind of a special 'client') on the same machine as Photon?

 

Yes, unless you simulate the client world on the server (integrate physics, etc) - that's a lot of work though.
I wouldn't start them on the same machine since that limits the number of concurrent users you can handle per server.
Also keep in mind that per default each unity process logs into the same file per default that each process uses only one core.
So you should modify the affinity and the log output of each process.

 

Yeah, I know about affinity and log output.
I wish Unity and Photon would be more easy to handle when it comes to creating authoritative servers! (the ones when you need collisions and geodata from the scene)

 

what is it?

After input of a name of the player the lobby doesn't join.

 

did you start the server?
did you set the correct server IP?
please post some logs, so we can see a bit more.

 

I have got to say Photon is great for hosting MMO's but I would choose Unity's inbuilt networking for an FPS project as most first person shooters will host a game off a local machine. Because you wouldn't really want 100 people in a Team Deathmatch although it would be great for a sandbox shooter or something.

 

Hosting a game on a local machine will lead to
1) cheating
2) need to host master server \ proxy
3) more lags

 

Assets/Scripts/GameManager.js(94,45): BCE0019: 'enabled' is not a member of 'UnityEngine.Component'.
Assets/Scripts/GameManager.js(158,43): BCE0019: 'enabled' is not a member of 'UnityEngine.Component'.
Assets/Scripts/GameManager.js(170,22): BCE0005: Unknown identifier: 'chatting'.
Assets/Scripts/GameManager.js(232,44): BCE0019: 'enabled' is not a member of 'UnityEngine.Component'.


????????????:-|

 

A bit more information? Unity 3.4?
Did you try a re-import?

 

Yeah Unity 3.4

Assets/Scripts/misc/GameManager.js(94,45): BCE0019: 'enabled' is not a member of 'UnityEngine.Component'.
Assets/Scripts/misc/GameManager.js(158,45): BCE0019: 'enabled' is not a member of 'UnityEngine.Component'.
Assets/Scripts/misc/GameManager.js(232,45): BCE0019: 'enabled' is not a member of 'UnityEngine.Component'.

Just these 3 lines ... I reimported everything

 

im getting the same issue with 3.4 here.

 

((ComponentName)component).enabled should help

 

gnoblin: Your idea is good but for some reason, it doesn't work. It might be UnityScript is not supporting this sort of casting.


I checked in Unity 3.4 with the latest Photon Bootcamp Demo and you definitely need to fix the demo's code. Giving variable scriptSoldierCamera a fixed type made it run again.

There are 6 places where scriptSoldierCamera is used, always 2 consecutive lines.
Add this code (bold part is new):

var scriptSoldierCamera : MonoBehaviour = cam.transform.GetComponent("SoldierCamera");
scriptSoldierCamera.enabled = !showMenu;


The cause for this is likely:
"Unity 3.4 ships with an improved javascript compiler that supports better type inference heuristics for commonly used Unity APIs such as GameObject.GetComponent and Object.Instantiate [...]"
http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-3.4

As the package was moved across categories in the Asset Store, there might be more than one Bootcamp Multiplayer demo in your download folders. I think this got me an outdated file imported in one case. So: Maybe you check if this is the case for you and remove outdated .unitypackage files.

Hope this helps.

 

Does this include the code? Do you need to know how to program to use this guide?

 

using unity ver 3.4
I am getting these 2 errors after I have fixed the first 3 code errors:

RenderTexture creation error: CreateRenderTarget failed [wrong texture format]
rcolor || rdepth

 

got the same problem as linuxva, and a decal and imageeffect scripts, im using unity 3.4 free version. hope they fix it soon.

 

I just submitted a update. When v1.2.2. is available, it will include the fixes for "BCE0019: 'enabled' is not a member of 'UnityEngine.Component'". The fix itself is described in my previous post, too. 4 posts above this.

Akonkagva:
The error you describe doesn't look like anything we can fix. Maybe the demo requires graphic card features you system is not compatible with? Did you check the original BootCamp Demo, too?

 

Hello, all.

I'm trying to run BootCamp multiplayer and I get this error:

Internal compiler error. See the console log for more information. output was:
Unhandled Exception: System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: The classes in the module cannot be loaded.

at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.Assembly:GetTypes (bool)

at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Mono.CSharp.RootNamespace.ComputeNamespaces (System.Reflection.Assembly assembly, System.Type extensionType) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Mono.CSharp.RootNamespace.ComputeNamespace (Mono.CSharp.CompilerContext ctx, System.Type extensionType) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Mono.CSharp.GlobalRootNamespace.ComputeNamespaces (Mono.CSharp.CompilerContext ctx) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Mono.CSharp.Driver.LoadReferences () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Mono.CSharp.Driver.Compile () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

at Mono.CSharp.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0


No clue what's going on with this. Any ideas?

 

Hm, that doesn't tell me a lot. It looks more like some issue in Unity while compiling the demo. Which version of the Editor are you running on which OS?
From the looks, I'd submit it as bug to Unity.

 

@TobiasS

I read mention of plans to document how to, or possibly even change the bootcamp demo, to use an authoritative approach. Are there still plans for this?

Also, being that you guys just released the Photon Unity Network plugin, which makes Photon MUCH easier to comprehend (srsly, thanks), I'm a little apprehensive to get too deep into the bootcamp demo if I'm going to end up not implementing things the way they are presented in the demo. So... I guess I'm asking if there are potential plans to update the Bootcamp demo to use PUN, or maybe document the code where differences would occur?

My biggest stumbling block right now is knowing that ultimately I want an authoritative, dedicated server, but not really finding concrete details on how to implement it correctly(ish). I did it fairly easily using built-in networking, and using physics-based controls... but, I realize that I'll probably have to ditch all the physics-based movement if I want something that scales, and can be done on a dedicated server without relying on a headless Unity instance.

 

I'm getting the same "bug" as youfus. I have built according to all of the instructions including setting the Ip and allowing access through the firewalls. Photon is running. When I try to view the Photon logs, however i get an error message.

"the system cannot find the file specified"

Been working very hard on getting this going. Very new to all of this but I at least know how to follow instructions ( well, my fiance would completely disagree with that ) so if you could give me a few pointers or message me I would be VERY grateful.

Thanks a ton,
-Richard

 

gnoblin> ((ComponentName)component).enabled should help
TobiasS> Your idea is good but for some reason, it doesn't work.

Right way is:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. Component tmp = target.GetComponent(ComponentName);
3.  if ( tmp is MonoBehaviour ) // othervice you cannot use enabled (on Transform or RigidBody components for example)
4.     ((MonoBehaviour)tmp).enabled = true;
5.  

 

How do I use my own server as the back-end? Or has anyone created a Back-end yet for this?

 

Wikened: Photon is a software you run on your own machines as server for this version of the Bootcamp Demo.
Or what do you mean by "Your own server as back-end"?

Kembl: As far as I could see, this works. The GameManager.js is JS/UnityScript, not C#.

 

FTP link doesn't work!

 

The FTP link was a temporary solution. I think we updated the asset store afterwards.
But: The store download is broken currently. I informed Unity about it and will update you when it's fixed again.

By the way: The Photon Bootcamp Demo is still Photon v2. From my side, I'd update it to Photon v3.
We won't mod this particular Demo to use PUN but it could even be made into using the cloud (optionally).
How big is interest for either (or both)?