Synchronizing location and rotation

[Ion]

I have a strange problem with synchronizing the physics in my game.
My game perfectly synchronizes the linear and angular velocity of the nodes, but don't seem to update the actualy location or rotation of them at all, or if at all, very seldom.
I seem to be lucky if it synchronizes the location and rotation once every 10 seconds.

When controlling the rotation and location of my nodes, I use the addForce and addTorque methods.
As I understood it, it's preferred to manipulating the location/rotation directly.

It seems to me that either the absolute values does not get piked up when a sync message is being created, or that the node on the other side doesn't receive them properly once they arrive, while the delta values are.

This is particularly apparent when a player has to respawn, meaning I have to set the coordinates manually, and one client thinks he's at position A, while he thinks he's at position B.

I'm thinking that perhaps I'm using setLocalTranslation/Rotation improperly, or that I have to somehow tell the system that I've updated them manually for them to be transmitted or something?

[darkfrog]

Are you using the physics synchronization functionality in the API or did you write your own?

[Ion]

Yes, I use the same code as in the Flagrush game.

[darkfrog]

Flagrush doesn't use the physics API, it is just jME synchronization.  Take a look at the jME-Physics-Networking extension:

http://jgn.googlecode.com/svn/synchronization/jme-physics-networking/