MMORPG? lol

[Canadian]

@Zaneiel

So Canadian: When you say networking code with threading…
Does that mean when a client connects to the server a new thread is spawned to handle them? I would like to see your code to get an idea how you handle things. I do like simple. Especially in a project like this, anything simple is great and lets me move on to the next task. There is allot to do after the bulk of the programming is done, Quests need to be written, models need to be made, etc etc. And of course many hours with my guitar and recording software to make more music hehe. All fun stuff of course though.

The built-in panda ConnectionManager modules use threading automatically. I spent a week going though the entire module and related modules just figuring out how it works and setup a simple client/server TCP connection.

I posted the code of how to use the connection manager and setup a basic client using the TCP protocol with Panda. Took a while to make it work because the stuff in the online manual doesn’t really give you much for sending data to a specific connection, which is essential in a multiplayer game. I put a way to deal with it in the code I posted, but it’s still pretty rough:

Click here to get the code

@kimja

I’d advise atleast giving Panda’s distributed system a shot. It handles all the listening and communications for you … you just have to follow the rules of the datagrams that you define within the system.

That’s what I’m doing now. The DistributedNode code is really cool, and it’s probably the best way to get a multiplayer game working. I’m working through it all to figure out how to get it working, and it completely automates the code that I spent a week working on above lol. But trying to setup a connection manager myself taught me a ton about how Panda functions so I think it was very useful.