Dedicated Servers Aren't Included in Player List Iteration

[chaoloveicemdboy]

For some odd reason, the dedicated server is not included when you iterate the player list by using for player in players.iterate. I originally thought the MapChange and ThinkFrame hooks aren't executing in dedicated servers, but then I tested local variables outside of for player in players.iterate, and the hooks worked perfectly fine, but player is nil if I attempt to use any player variables outside of for player in players.iterate, since player is undefined in the MapChange and ThinkFrame hooks.

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If you are using the dedicated server, then the MapChange and ThinkFrame hooks never execute; as a result, player.empiralMP is nil for the dedicated server, and it is causing Lua errors. I found this out when I didn't see any messages being printed involving the pre-init, init, and post-init stages for EmpiralMP on the dedicated server's side. I do not know if this is intentional or a bug with SRB2. On integrated servers and clients, there are no Lua errors at all.

 

[Monster Iestyn]

Are you absolutely sure that ThinkFrame doesn't run at all for dedicated servers? If it did then a lot of scripts would be breaking in dedicated mode I'd imagine.

No idea about MapChange though, that has issues of its own even outside of dedicated servers IIRC.

 

[chaoloveicemdboy]

Are you absolutely sure that ThinkFrame doesn't run at all for dedicated servers? If it did then a lot of scripts would be breaking in dedicated mode I'd imagine.

No idea about MapChange though, that has issues of its own even outside of dedicated servers IIRC.

I need to do some more testing.

---------- Post added at 09:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:28 PM ----------

Update: Sorry to double post, but ThinkFrame, and MapChange do in fact work on dedicated servers; the real issue is that dedicated servers are not included when the player list is iterated through for some reason.

 

[Lach]

Pretty sure that is intentional—for many common scripts, it would be a waste to constantly iterate through a player slot that doesn't have any actual in-game presence. If you need to access the player_t struct of the dedicated server, I believe the global Lua variable server points to it. https://wiki.srb2.org/wiki/Lua/Global_variables

 

[chaoloveicemdboy]

Pretty sure that is intentional—for many common scripts, it would be a waste to constantly iterate through a player slot that doesn't have any actual in-game presence. If you need to access the player_t struct of the dedicated server, I believe the global Lua variable server points to it. https://wiki.srb2.org/wiki/Lua/Global_variables

Thanks. I will go ahead and fix that before working on multiple home support.

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