miltnerunit

so, there's this multiple-user online game a friend of mine put together, and i'm trying to get user edits of the game into max. - I want my patch to receive the changes to the game as 'pings' in real time. Is there a jitter object that would constantly look for a ping from a url? the things i'm finding, like uldl.jit seem to need to be constantly sent a bang to download from an xml doc. Is this how it's supposed to work?

ideally it would filter this information by location of the user -- so i would get a stream of pings from one user that's separate from a string of pings from another user. I don't know how to begin to sort and separate this information, and I don't know how to tell the game engineer what I need from him.

I figured that if I could get him to dump info into an xml doc that has:

1. the location from east to west in a range of 0. - 100. (or however broad or fine he wants the range to be)

2. the 'ping' in terms of a timestamp, like 0.02.55.05 (hours, minutes, seconds, ms and it would just start over every 24 hours)...anyone want to point me in the right direction in terms of what objects to look at to be able to:

1. be always 'awake' and ready for a ping

2. be able to parse, channel and categorize this information?

ideally it would filter this information by location of the user -- so i would get a stream of pings from one user that's separate from a string of pings from another user.  I don't know how to begin to sort and separate this information, and  I don't know how to tell the game engineer what I need from him.

I figured that if I could get him to dump info into an xml doc that has:
1. the location from east to west in a range of 0. - 100. (or however broad or fine he wants the range to be)
2. the 'ping' in terms of a timestamp, like 0.02.55.05 (hours, minutes, seconds, ms and it would just start over every 24 hours)...anyone want to point me in the right direction in terms of what objects to look at to be able to:
1. be always 'awake' and ready for a ping
2. be able to parse, channel and categorize this information?

objects-for-a-max-patch-that-receives-information-from-a-web-game

- install Max on a server or on a computer that has a network connection with a server.

- send the data you need from the game to the server where you have an application with a server-side application running (i.e. PHP or Java). From this application you can send any data via UDP into the network (in PHP i.e. with socket_create() function, Java with the DatagramSocket-Object).

- Max can receive that data via [udpreceive].

I haven't build such a setup yet, but from the theoretical point of view it should work.

p.s also have a look at the "Communications Tutorial 3: UDP Networking"

One approach could be:
- install Max on a server or on a computer that has a network connection with a server.
- send the data you need from the game to the server where you have an application with a server-side application running (i.e. PHP or Java). From this application you can send any data via UDP into the network (in PHP i.e. with socket_create() function, Java with the DatagramSocket-Object).
- Max can receive that data via  [udpreceive].

I haven't build such a setup yet, but from the theoretical point of view it should work.
jan

p.s also have a look at the "Communications Tutorial 3: UDP Networking"


objects for a max patch that receives information from a web game?