[ENet-discuss] Question about peers

[LoneSock]

Hi, James.

I'm not entirely sure if I understand, so I'll just point out some things:

1) each ENetHost stores the list of peers already, in an array called
"peers" (unexpected, I know [8^), so storing ENetPeer* in your array
PlayerPeers is not necessary.

2) the ENetPeer has the data pointer available (as you already
mentioned).  In fact, from this sentence, it seems you are already
doing it:
"I have put the player number in the peer->data field"
I would probably just do a "event.peer.data = new int;" and store
GameData.NumPlayers there.

3) When you set up your host, you can specify the maximum number of
connections.  So this line:
" if(GameData.NumPlayers < DAT_options.MaxNetPlayers)"
isn't strictly necessary

hope this helped,
Jonathan



On 6/15/05, James Bunting <nicedelta at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I am a little bit confused about how to link peers to each game player. 
>   
> I have an array of players containg all client player data and a single
> ENetPeer*.  I have put the player number in the peer->data field. 
>   
> I am assuming that when I create each client peer on the server it somehow
> connects it to the server socket. 
>   
> Here is a more hands on example: 
>   
> while( enet_host_service( LocalHost, &event, 50) > 0)
> { 
>     switch (event.type)
>     { 
>          case ENET_EVENT_TYPE_CONNECT:
>     
>          if(GameData.NumPlayers < DAT_options.MaxNetPlayers)
>          {
>                // * connect new player *
>              MSG_Message("Client connected from %s", event.peer->address); 
>   
>              GameData.NumPlayers++; 
>   
>              // set player peer (reassign peer pointer)
>              PlayerPeers[ GameData.NumPlayers-1] = event.peer;
>              event.peer = NULL; 
>             
>             // store player number in peer (so that we can tell where
> packets came from)
>            NET_BindPlayerNumberToPeer( PlayerPeers[ GameData.NumPlayers-1],
> GameData.NumPlayers-1); 
>  ...... 
>   
> You see I need to store the player number in each peer so that I can
> determine which player the packet arrived from when calling
> enet_host_serivce on the server. 
>   
> The big question is: 
> Is this a viable way of doing this or should I be doing things another way
> (I wanted to avoid storing player data in each "peer", if possible I would
> simply like to store the player number)? 
>   
> James. 
>  
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