Gallius IV Discussion Board

Ok so this is the first time I've ever used multithreading, and I learned something new... I was about to pull my hair out with the load save game thing. It kept freezing the UI when it reloaded the world, and I finally figured out why. You are not supposed to update a UI from any thread except the ...

Just an update: I've got all of the code that was working on 1.20 working for version 1.31. Right now I'm working on getting the load multiplayer game code working. The game normally sends the save file in like ~65 byte chunks, which takes a really long time to send for big maps. I've got it sending...

That shouldn't be a problem. Just have to get the corresponding memory addresses for the things I am using. I'll start working on that so I can see if the game plays differently. I looked at the patch notes for the windows version, and you were right about the number of players. It also says not to ...

Haha, no pun intended! I think I maybe figured out what was causing that problem. At some point I must have accidentally removed some code that sets the player numbers of slaves, and they were getting set to 0 (player 1). I believe the freezing problem was because the code was messing with the wrong...

Here's some of the problems that I've noticed so far that I'm trying to work on and/or figure out what is causing it. At the start of each turn, the host game experiences a decent waiting time where the cursor is the waiting cursor and the UI is unresponsive... At least this happens with 7 players (...

FINALLY!! I got 2 games to work together after many frustrating hours! I need to polish up some of the stuff to make it more efficient, but I'm pretty stoked that I was able to get this far with 0 networking experience 2 months ago.

That's what I'm working on is direct internet play using TCP sockets. Anyone should be able to connect to someone else if they have their IP and Port number. Eventually I want to take my debug server and make it into an independent server that would handle all of the games. Instead of having to shar...

I think I'm close to having this working. I added something to my network debugging app where I can send what I call a "Net Message" to the game over the network to simulate things that a real player would do. I am able to select a race using my debugger and select a landing site, which ge...

Here's a couple more.

Sorry for the delay in getting these pictures uploaded.