Status of Linux Multiplayer

[Solidcube]

Hi,

What's the status of multiplayer on Linux?

I'm aware that there are several AIs that may work on linux, but what's going on with the real meat of the game?

* Does the lobby work?
* Does the game work between Linux clients?
* How close is fully synchronized multiplay between Mac, Windows and Linux clients?

[imbaczek]

Everything works almost fine in wine, that's for sure :)

[hollowsoul]

Working on Lobby still some stuff todo.
Havent been doing much coding lately, due to RL. Hopefully get some of battle code done later.

Linux V Linux will work in next release

Linux V Offical Windows wont work
Linux V Windows built using MinGW will work.

Devs plan to switch to using MinGW for offlical windows builds, not next release but one after that.

Not sure about Mac using Power CPU. But using Macs with Intel processer should be ok.

[Solidcube]

To the top.

Sorry for bumping, if that's a problem here. But I think this is a legitimate question...

I'm especially interested in the status of linux-windows multiplayer.

[imbaczek]

Spring client works regardless of OS. The lobby works fine in wine; Unity is almost there (I tried it 2 days ago and everything worked up to the point of launching the game - tried to host a 1v1 and the game launched only for me.)

[clericvash]

Unity is a great peice of work and i think in a month or two it will be a solid playable linux lobby.

[Solidcube]

Thanks guys.

The devs on this project rock pretty hard. Spring is hands down the best opensource game I know of.

[BrainDamage]

i tried the latest version of UnityLobby (the one in the trunk repository) and i could play an internet multiplayer game (i played with someone who was using windows); i used the trunk version of the lobby with the official release of spring (0.74b3)

how to get the official release:

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svn co https://taspring.clan-sy.com/svn/spring/tags/taspring_0.74b3/

and get the trunk devel version:

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svn co https://taspring.clan-sy.com/svn/spring/trunk

instructions how to compile can be found here:

http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtop ... 92&start=0

bear in mind that those intruction are referring to an old version of spring & unitylobby, you'll ned to have the "mind flexibilty" to use the previous versions instead.


hope this helps