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looking for information: Dedicated Servers and Master Servers

by James Brad Barnette · in Torque 3D Professional · 06/17/2009 (12:47 pm) · 4 replies

I'm looking for information or someone with the knowledge of how to make both a Torque 3D Dedicated server as well as a master server that will list them. The Master server is not that critical but I defiantly need dedicated servers.

so if anyone can point me in the right direction here...


Thanx in advance,

James Brad Barnette
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Torque 3D Owner Marc Dreamora Schaerer
Gayasoft
#1
06/17/2009 (12:57 pm)
dedicated server: start with the flag -dedicated

MasterServer: there has been a cgi resource in the old days for TGE / TGEA, potentially its still around. (don't worry about it not beeing for T3D, i highly doubt that that part of the source has been touched since TGE )

Torque Owner James Brad Barnette
3Dmotif LLC
#2
06/17/2009 (2:20 pm)
ok actually there is only ever going to be maybe 2 servers to connect to is there a way I can manually put those in a txt file or something so that they show in the server list without having a master server?

Associate Manoel Neto
Default Studio Name
#3
06/18/2009 (5:21 am)
You can use a simple PHP page or something like that. Your master servers connect to it to add themselves to a list, and clients connect to get said list, using either HTTPObject or the libcurl resource.

A "dedicated" server is merely a scripting concept. For a dedicated server you:

- Don't create a window (canvas).
- Don't initialize direct input (unneeded).
- Use the null devices for graphics and sound.
- Open a command-line console (enableWinConsole(true)).
- Don't perform a local connection when hosting a game (since the server is dedicated and won't play the game itself).

Torque 3D Owner Tony Richards
#4
06/18/2009 (5:39 am)
@James - Keep your own list of servers and then use the script connect() function to connect to the one the user selects.

It's best to have a way to download this list from somewhere... Manoel's suggestion of having this as a dynamic PHP page (or even a static HTML or text file) on a web server is a great one.