[Fox-NL]

Story:
Ok, well this is the story! When I first began to use multiplayer in GameMaker, I used mplay! Its very easy to use but after some testing I noticed it's as slow as a cow! So, I went to the GMC and searched for some dlls, after looking at 3 dll's; GMsock, SOC and 39dll, i made my decision!

39dll it was, and after learning it I noticed that a lot of people on the GMC also want to have multiplayer in their games, but don't know how! Its either too difficult or they have no idea where to start... anyways, I came up with something to help that problem.. EasySock

EasySock is an easy way of coding multiplayer, because it handles all the crappy stuff from 39dll for you! Although its still better to code everything from scratch, EasySock will help you get through the stage of "learning" the basics of multiplayer!

Why not use other dll's? Because 39dll is simply the best !

Other Information:
Currently, EasySock is limited to 2 player support, this means Host and Client. In the future, i'll probably have like 4 player support or even MMO stuff, all depends on the feedback !

Remember, this is still a beta! So please if you find any bugs, have suggestions or know how to improve? Contact me!

Download:
EasySock.zip - 86kb - Hosted in Europe, The Netherlands
EasySock.zip - 86kb - Hosted in United States, Washington
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'> (EasySock comes with a simple game example and 39dll.dll)</span>



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Thats all! Good luck coding !
- Fox-NL

[boxster]

I can tell thats its really cool but please use a different host its downloading at 500 bytes/sec!!....and plz dont use rapid share
thx
EDIT: thx 4 the new host anywayz its really cool btw do u need credit if i use it ?

This post has been edited by boxster: 24 August 2006 - 02:07 PM

[Toon-Master]

Ah finally after time by time you made a beta. Yeah I tested before and it worked fine. And it is easy I'll make sure. And don't worry about reference to my idea, your output is way different to the one I had in mind.

Good luck with the rest.

- Toon-Master

EDIT: Hey remember, "Easy isn't Slow by definition" right?

This post has been edited by Toon-Master: 24 August 2006 - 02:12 PM

[Fox-NL]

boxster, on Aug 24 2006, 02:52 PM, said:

I can tell thats its really cool but please use a different host its downloading at 500 bytes/sec!!....and plz dont use rapid share
thx

Thats your problem, its hosted in the Netherlands, so thats fast for European users! But I already added a mirror ...

Toon-Master, on Aug 24 2006, 02:52 PM, said:

Ah finally after time by time you made a beta.

Haha yeah, well It still doens't have that much features but enough to create your own multiplayer game

[Smarttart62]

Its just like SOC for 39dll lol.

Great job Fox!
-Steve

[Evilish]

ahaha... I was having the same idea for a lib in GM... save the user the need of learning about the data types and just put a byte indicating what the following bytes are going to be... seems you beat me to it

Great job Fox-NL, and I truly hope this gets some better online games around here, or at least makes people realise 39dll is the best. XD

- Evilish

[Tofp]

I think there a lot of two players examples with 39dll.and they not hard to anderstand. but when be support for more players.....

[GM6_Dude]

If only this was out when I started out learning the functions of 39dll

This is great for the people that want to learn it

It can auto set from writebyte to writeint thanks Fox-NL your always my fave gmc guy!

[..::Origin::..]

Great work Fox! I never really thought of that idea, but i think its a really cool one.

@Tofp
Thats not hard either, As long as you know how to use 'For' and 'With'.
I lost my old tutorial i posted for a chat example, i may have to re-write that again.

[the bull]

Great work!I've found my rival
I'm developing a system like this but it focus on LAN and broadcast,lobby.

[myuusmeow]

Wow, so easy, even I who knows nothing about 39dll except that it's a multiplayer DLL that uses sockets can use this!

Your a great programmer, Fox-NL, and thanks for the mirror.

[BrainWare]

Very good. I love it

[SleeK GeeK]

Very good. I hope this removes some complexities from using 39dll for new users.

Regards,
SleeK GeeK.

[THE Stefan]

I would say, just use SOC . Also the type thing you're doing is nice, but because of the extra byte, I don't think it really helps. But still nice done.

This post has been edited by THE Stefan: 25 August 2006 - 06:38 PM

[coolsmile]

Very useful for one of my projects, I was using mplay, but it is really unreliable , this one is a lot better

If you put the controller object in the step event (I think it's already there), and if you put the host and client object's step events in the begin step events, it's just as fast and without too much lag , and you have to get rid of the delay

This post has been edited by coolsmile: 25 August 2006 - 10:39 PM

[3t3rNAL_Payn]

I have not tested, but from looking it over, this looks like a very easy alternative to other online options.

[RaMedia Services]

does it require the Winsock2?

[..::Origin::..]

Why not look for yourself?

[Toon-Master]

I think I found an error within your coding.

packetwrite(value); to there

    } else if(argument0 >= 32768 && argument0 <= 32767) {
        writebyte(3); writeshort(argument0);
    } else if(argument0 >= 2147483648 && argument0 <= 2147483647) {
        writebyte(4); writeint(argument0);

In the if statements, I think you were after signed values. So I think 32768 and 2147483648 should be -32768 and -2147483648.

Just a check.

- Toon-Master

This post has been edited by Toon-Master: 26 August 2006 - 12:17 PM

[Fox-NL]

Thanks Toon-Master for reporting that bug!

Scripts have been fixed and reuploaded
- Fox-NL