Late client join & synchronization

[Dentoid]

Hey

I've set up a quick test with JGE in a little project I'm doing, and I think I've managed to wrap my head around how things are supposed to work. One thing, however, that I don't quite see how it's supposed to work is clients joining a server when it has already registered objects. (E.g. joining a running game.) I find no code to sync existing objects to new clients... Should I be doing this myself (just register the objects over again when I get a new client connection), or what is the idea about how to do it?

Thanks in advance

[Tumaini]

Hello and welcome to the forums!

Already registered objects get their sync create messages sent to new clients that connect to the server in this method in SynchronizationManager:

Code:

public void connected(JGNConnection connection) {
// Client connected to server - send creation messages to new connection
for (SyncWrapper wrapper : queue) {
connection.sendMessage(wrapper.getCreateMessage());
}
for (SyncWrapper wrapper : disabled) {
connection.sendMessage(wrapper.getCreateMessage());
}
for (SyncWrapper wrapper : passive) {
connection.sendMessage(wrapper.getCreateMessage());
}
}

So you shouldn't register the same object twice.
I'm currently revising the sync code, so expect to see a few additions in the near future.
I hope you find JGN to be a good help in your project!

[Dentoid]

Ah, thanks a lot! I'm actually not sure what I did wrong (think I missed some update thread), but it works now, so I'm happy. Seems nice so far.