Your second script does not compile. You're missing a closing brace after run_once.

Your example:

void game_callback on_game_frame() {
  Location test1 = "test1";
  
  run_once {
    create_unit ("1","Glass Dragon Start", test1);
}
void game_callback on_unit_killed (Unit the_unit) {
  Location the_location = unit_location(the_unit);
  create_unit (get_unit_leader(the_unit), get_unit_type(the_unit), the_location);
}

Corrected:

void game_callback on_game_frame() {
  Location test1 = "test1";
  
  run_once {
    create_unit ("1","Glass Dragon Start", test1);
  }
}
void game_callback on_unit_killed (Unit the_unit) {
  Location the_location = unit_location(the_unit);
  create_unit (get_unit_leader(the_unit), get_unit_type(the_unit), the_location);
}

After fixing the coding error I tried out both examples on a blank test map, and I couldn't get the OOS you were talking about.

Most single player campaign scripts probably won't work in multiplayer. A number of the functions that work in single player aren't designed to work in multiplayer. Particularly some of the UI stuff and the main game loop that is called is also different (on_solo_frame in sp vs. on_game_frame in mp).

Not to mention that the single player maps aren't set up for multiplayer at all. (Player starts, etc.)

Well, the bracket was there but I didn't copy it correctly to the text here. Again, the code works excellent in single player.

If you did test this using two connections on the same computer, it would have worked.

Hipskovski and I did some testing and we figured out why it is not working.

The reason:

The script file is not transferring to the other guy!

We tried everything. We tried both the "/custom maps" and the "/maps" folder and everything in between... what did work was me sending him the ".bhs" file outside of the game system. This way, there were no problems...

So, the system does not seem to transfer scripts, and that doesn't seem right..

Not only that, I'm yet to hear of a Scenario being succesfully transferred across the net.

I've tried for half an hour, with the scenario being 1.4 MB I think and 2 Half Meg Connections. I've tried that 5 times.

I transferred a scenario across the game lobby.

Didn't have a script though.

Cool.

How long did it take?

The speed is pretty slow. It took about 15-30 seconds for a 62 KB file to be transferred to the other guy if he doesn't freeze. That's eyeballed data from my test with Hipskovski yesterday night.

At 62KB every 22.5 seconds, that's 2.755 KB/s. If you're talking 1.4 MB, that's 1433.6KB, so it will take 520 seconds or 8 minutes and about 40 seconds to transfer.

Usually though the other guy's connection and interface will freeze up (instead of the "Do you want to download" prompt) and it will take longer....

Oh yeah. One other thing I've noticed is that sometimes my scenario data will not activate, and I'm left with a black minimap/black map, and "empty" buttons, etc..

[This message has been edited by Agamemnus (edited 07-07-2006 @ 11:40 AM).]

The black minimap thing might happen if the scenario is set up wrong. Happens to me all the time on maps I make for 'scenery'.

That 62 KB file only took a second or two, All i had to do was click okey twice and it would finish right away. I guess it matters on the connection between the two people but between you and I we had at least 30kb a second going.

So..... BHG.... are you going to acknowledge this problem and fix it, or what?