RTSUnit Paradox

#1 TGE uses a mechanism, where the client have a "ghost" Id of the objects, that is different from the server side Id, for security reasons. The process of communicating objects changes between server and client, is trough the traduction of this Ids. The actual things though, happend server side, while the client side is just a simulation, a graphical representation of whats going on server side. To work properly with the TGE and the RTS-SK, you must understand at least the basic concepts of what this division entails, I highly recommend you to read some about this on TDN or the docs.

What you are doing in your example, is to mix commands given from the client and from the server. The creation phase, is made on the server, as the movemement itself, while the selection through the Playgui is made client side. All can be done server side, but using the proper commands (ie, see .\starter.RTS\server\scripts\core\commands.cs)

What you wanna do, should be something like this (from server side):

%s = $conn.CreatePlayer(%point, 1);
%s.setMoveGoal(getRandom(200, 150) SPC getRandom(200, 150) SPC "100");
%s.client.selection.add(%s);
sendAllStatsToClient(%client, %s);

And BTW, be care how you use $conn, cause its client specific, which means that if you dont update it properly, you will have communication with only one client.

#2 Thanks Novack !! That really is helpful... I'll remember to give you lots of credits in our acknowledgments page ;) !!
but now I'm back to the commandToServer trouble again !!
I'm trying to loop over a group of units, and send each of them to a separate destination !!
But using 'commandToServer' won't work, as it happens asynchronously. I played around with the netEvent.cc and netConnection.cc trying to force the server to handle the event once it occurs, but I failed !
Any ideas??

#3 I dont see the problem, why that stops you from giving a group separate destinations?

#4 When I only use the 'setMoveGoal' without the 'IssueMove', the units move in a wierd way, without playing the movement sequence.
Consider the following:

for (%i = 0 ; %i < $Students.getCount() ; %i++)
{
	%s = $Students.getObject(%i);
		
	%s.client.selection.clear();
	%s.setMoveGoal(getRandom(200, 150) SPC getRandom(200, 150) SPC "100");
	%s.client.selection.add(%s);
	sendAllStatsToClient(%s.client, %s);
		
	%b = Buildings.getObject(getRandom(0, Buildings.getCount() - 1));
	commandToServer('IssueMove', getword(%b.getPosition(), 0) , getword(%b.getPosition(), 1), 100);
}

This just moves the students randomly to buildings. Although I use the 'IssueMove', the result is this weird movement with no animation played !
This is because I have to wait after each 'IssueMove' for the command to get processed at the server side. I just need to make it a synchronous call.. that'll solve the problem I guess.

#5 Lol, pal, you are doing the same thing again. CommandToServer is supossed to be done from the client, while setMoveGoal is done in the server, and both are supossed to have almost the same effect.

What I think confuses you, is the name of the method, setMoveGoal, but actually it not only set the goal, but triggers the movement itself, so no other command is needed after that, the unit will move.

The weird movement with setMoveGoal can be solved by adding this line:

%this.clearAim();

to Player::setMoveGoal in .\starter.RTS\server\scripts\avatars\player.cs

What I see weird is that you need to select the units even when they move are in different directions, whats the purpose of have selected the units? The only sense I see on that is that later you call "issueMove", that even when is not correct, I understand something like you want to give the units a movement direction, but why, if you want them to go to some building, you give them first random destinations?

Better tell conceptually what you wanna do, stop writing this crazy code :D

#6 Thanks Novack :$
I actually wanted to demonstrate... I knew setMoveGoal initiates the movement.. and I did the selection and the issueMove thing to demonstrate what I'm actually doing...

#7 Yes, no problem at all, I just want to understand what you wanna do, to try to help you.

If what you want to do, is to move the units to different buildings/locations, from server side, you should do something like:

for (%i = 0 ; %i < $Students.getCount() ; %i++)
{
	%s = $Students.getObject(%i);
        %b = Buildings.getObject(getRandom(0, Buildings.getCount() - 1));

	%s.setMoveGoal(getword(%b.getPosition(), 0) SPC getword(%b.getPosition(), 1) SPC "100");
}

But Im not sure if that is what you wanna do.

#8 Yep.. thanks a lot... that does it ;)
Adding %this.clearAim(); fixed the whole problem...