[WIP] Multiplayer Tic Tac Toe Tutorials 1-26-15

[Pindrought]

Note: The following is a Work in Progress. As more updates are made, the thread title will change according to the date of the last update.

Please refer to attachments for the download links. Edit: Can only attach 3 files per post, FML. I'll have to use freewebs links for the rest.

This is a series covering how to make a multiplayer TicTacToe game using a modified version of Bshivam's uploaded Chili DirectX Advanced Framework and a server solution starting from the attached solution for Tutorial 1.

Tutorial 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTd44IJ ... e=youtu.be

=Contents=
Loading up necessary sprite for buttons used in game.
Creating Main Screen
Creating Login Screen
Connecting to Server

Tutorial 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zECDpwX ... e=youtu.be

Server End Tutorial Link
http://www.freewebs.com/smurf-job/TicTa ... 0Final.rar
Client End Tutorial Link
http://www.freewebs.com/smurf-job/TicTa ... 0Final.rar

=Contents=
What the ClientThread/ServerThread are for and how they work
How tasks in each thread are updated
How to send a data struct that contains no strings
How to send a data struct that contains strings
How to receive a data struct that contains no strings
How to receive a data struct that contains strings
How the connection objects are handled
Add game lobby screen
Add create game screen
Add creating a game request
Fix PindroughtNetwork::DisconnectUser function

Tutorial 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjnW2oR ... e=youtu.be

Server End Tutorial Link
http://www.freewebs.com/smurf-job/TicTa ... 0Final.rar
Client End Tutorial Link
http://www.freewebs.com/smurf-job/TicTa ... 0Final.rar
Note: I forgot to mention to add the following code in the Client Thread where a game lobby is being updated. It has been added in the uploaded source.

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if (MyGamePtr->SelectedServer == GameLobbyToUpdate.LobbyID) //If game being removed is selected server
{
	MyGamePtr->SelectedServer = -1; //Set selected server back to -1
}

=Contents=
Create game lobby struct server side
Add accepting & processing Create game Request from server
Add DeclineCreateGame // AcceptedCreatedGame packets to be accepted in the client thread
Add In game screen to client
Add Game list being sent from server to client
Add game browser being populated in client
Add joining games on both server/client
Add leaving games/disconnecting from game
Add cleanup of game lobby code

Tutorial 4:
Part [1/2]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h8lrm7kY70

Part [2/]2
[Video In Progress]

Server End Project Download Link
http://www.freewebs.com/smurf-job/TicTa ... ut4End.rar
Client End Project Download Link
http://www.freewebs.com/smurf-job/TicTa ... ut4End.rar

=Contents=
[1/2]
Add chat
Add message when player joins/leaves your game

[2/2]
Add sending X/O packets from client to server and server to client
Add checking if someone won and send message if a player won
Add start new game if a game has ended

Tutorial 5:
[In Progress]

=Contents=
Overview of how this is all working
Review of SendData functions
Review of ReceiveData functions
Review of GetIntPacket function
Creating more complicated packets to send between the server and client
Manually sending a receiving a string - How it works
Review of the ReceiveDataWithStrings func
Review of the SendDataWithStrings func

[albinopapa]

Text is too tiny to follow along, for me any way. Good luck with the tuts.

[Pindrought]

Text is too tiny to follow along, for me any way. Good luck with the tuts.

Did you put it in 1080p and full screen?

[albinopapa]

It's not the font clarity, it's the font size. It was in full screen. You probably have your font size around 10, try bumping it up to 13-14. That's where I have to have mine to be able to prevent eye strain...though I'm visually impaired so I'm probably a special case.

BTW that's with my res at 1280 x 720

I have to bump up the font to 18 at 1920 x 1080, to get the same size font

[Pindrought]

It's not the font clarity, it's the font size. It was in full screen. You probably have your font size around 10, try bumping it up to 13-14. That's where I have to have mine to be able to prevent eye strain...though I'm visually impaired so I'm probably a special case.

BTW that's with my res at 1280 x 720

I have to bump up the font to 18 at 1920 x 1080, to get the same size font

I'll re-render it more zoomed in for you. Hopefully this will help.
For the future tutorials, i'll bump up my font size. Thanks for the feedback.

Edit:Video is currently processing, but should be live at
http://youtu.be/eFK8XPZX7EI

[albinopapa]

Hey appreciate it.

[FinalL]

Nice, so far so good... Keep going man No problem for me, just use busy mode on skype

[chili]

Lookin' good Pindrought! I think people will be more interested in this than in a basic client-server chat tutorial. It's a little more interesting.

[BurakCanik]

Nice tutorial pindrought, font size 13-14 would be better though. Keep up the good work dude

[DeitusPrime]

Cool.

Quite informative (and you haven't even gone 'into the networking stuff' yet).

I like the GUI tutorial included (an added bonus!!), ...perhaps a bit of formatting is in order.
(how bout making that a small class) maybe, a "little" gui_button_(size) dimensions formatting, then we can also just add something like gui_button_string (and then a scale_to_size bool...for having "large buttons\text").

gui_window_(vec posxy, vec size xy, string caption, bool scale_to_size)
gui_button_(vec posxy, vec size xy, string caption, bool scale_to_size)

(<--- /note to self, do THIS.)

I love you, (heterosexually speaking)...Can't wait to see what else you have in store for us.

...and yes, lol. IF I get around too it I'll make those sound tutorials I was talking about a month or so ago. Though I SHOULD do my homework from Adv. Lesson 10. xD.

Keep 'em coming.