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This page is a Work In Progress by Seth Willits, dated May 15, 2008.

TGB Networking >> Creating a Server

Creating a Server

While the standard StartServerGui dialog takes care of creating a server for you, it's extremely easy to create one manually. All it requires is a single line of code:

createServer(%displayOnMasterServer);

Calling the createServer() function will automatically tell the master server that the server is available (and will be shown in the server list for other players if the %displayOnMasterServer parameter is true), enable the game to accept incoming connections from other players, and create a loopback connection from the local client to the server.

The createServer() function will call the onServerCreated() callback function, as well as set these global variables:

$serverLocal = true;
$serverCreated = true;

$serverLocal and $serverCreated are logically identical, describing whether or not the game is running a server or not.

Because createServer() also creates a local connection from the client to the server within the same game instance, the client-related callbacks (onConnected() etc) will also be called as appropriate.