Ultimate Chicken Horse in Creaticode!

[The_True_Odst]

Since I’ve finally (I think) learned how to use multiplayer and can’t get on Linux or ChromeOS ( ), I’m making a scratch remake of Ultimate Chicken Horse!

For anyone who doesn’t know what this game is, it is a game about trying to reach the finish line. Every time everyone does not reach the end, they each get a block or obstacle to put on the map to make it easier or harder to reach the finish line. Everyone who reaches the end gets a point, and whoever has the most points at the end wins!

Edit: I may get stuck at times, and I would appreciate help for anyone willing? (tbh, I’m still very new to multiplayer blocks and still find them pretty confusing.)

Edit2: I was gonna make this game a couple months back, but I decided not to because the multiplayer was too confusing

[Tyller_]

@the_true_odst I can help! It may be hard to make gravity work and stuff like that, your best chance may be making it so you have the player sprites/a sprite that acts at the current clients player, then a display sprite that clones itself and gets added to the game, and the display sprite does some magic to make itself try to follow the player sprite, I have some ideas on how you could do the sync x y movement changing, but the issue is that the synchrously set x y speed isn’t really that good, for example if you set it to 10 10, it moves at a semi arbitrary speed, but it will be twice as fast at 20 20, but still with an arbitrary “real” movement speed, it has ping stuff and you can best test this by setting speed to 200 200, then waiting 0 frames (or 1 frame) and setting speed to 0 0, from what I remember it will definetly not be at 200 200 (the x y position, and that makes sense) but it will most likely be at some random x y position below 200 200

[The_True_Odst]

@tyller_ said in Ultimate Chicken Horse in Creaticode!:

It may be hard to make gravity work and stuff like that, your best chance may be making it so you have the player sprites/a sprite that acts at the current clients player

does this work?

[Tyller_]

@the_true_odst it could likely work, I’m not sure why i was thinking 2d physics stuff (ig cus walls) but that would probably work, you can make the demo stuff to just create your own game and use syrnchrously set x y speed to try it, but I guess it probably should, though with varying heights off ping and the heights would need to be adjusted due to it being slower

[Attractive Milk]

@the_true_odst just look at some tutorials on how to do it. Ik someone here thats a mod helper has made a forum and stuff about how to make gravity and what blocks n stuff to use

[The_True_Odst]

@attractive-milk I’ve already made gravity and stuff :?

[The_True_Odst]

@tyller_ How do you update the other player’s position and actions in the game though?

[Tyller_]

@the_true_odst you do broadcasts for actions, you dont update htem, the synchrously set x y speed and other blocks like that are the way you have to use to update player positions, when you set it on one client the server gets that info, and sends it to all clients (including your own I’m pretty sure) so that clone does stuff, you dont handle the movement for other client sprites manually, creaticode does it automatically (which is a lil annoying)

[The_True_Odst]

@tyller_ I do that, and it just breaks the movement:

I do “if key pressed,” “change x by {number depending on what key},” and “synchronously set speed x {same speed as movement} y 0”

for y speed, I do “when space key pressed,” “change y by 4,” “set {y speed} to 4” “synchronously set speed x 0 y {y speed}” “if not touching ground, reduce y by 0.05” (and y speed by that as well)

[Tyller_]

@the_true_odst you’ve created the game and added hte sprite to the game right? if you have then it’s probably you should do what other people do with an intended x y, actual x y, and only update the sync set speed when these change, the reason you do this is beducase (I believe I’ve tested htis) there’s a time out on the connection if you use it too much

[The_True_Odst]

@tyller_ Can you make this work then? I have no clue how to.
https://play.creaticode.com/projects/67db18264187b83ecbf164ab

[Tyller_]

@the_true_odst you create the game with your create button, then you use the add this sprite to game in the clones, you need to make sure the player is a clone with a unique name (I find the best option is usign the username full name or user id for the clone id), run everything for the player in that clone, and put the add this sprite to game for that clone

[The_True_Odst]

@tyller_ can you send a screenshot of what you mean? I’m pretty sure you can look at my code too

[The_True_Odst]

@tyller_ I feel like this should work, but it doesn’t. Can you help?

Edit: I understand the movement is different from the sync block, it was just a test to see if it would actually move

[Tyller_]

@the_true_odst you may require some width and height, also you do run create game before that right? and its run in a clone as well right? the most likely issue would be you’re calling synchrously set x y speed every frame, so the server gets it all and eventually just stops receiving from your client due to spam, this is called timing out, the best wya to stop this from being a chance is having four variables

actual x speed
actual y speed
intended x speed
intended y speed

then every frame you check if the corresponding actual is equal to the intended (and update the intended to change speed and stuff), then if they aren’t equal, syrcrhrously set x y speed to intended x y speed (with the variables), set actual x y speed to intended x y speed, then the if statement ends

there are examples of this in the basic space shooter creaticode tutorial example, the reason for this is not explained but most likely because CreatiCode doesnt want your client sending massive amounts of data to their server every frame when it’s not neccassary

[The_True_Odst]

@tyller_ I can’t figure it out, could you help remaking it in my game?

[Tyller_]

@the_true_odst I can try, you should look at the space shooter tutorial for what I’m talking about, I will make a demo when I get the time

[The_True_Odst]

@tyller_ I did look at the space shooter, but I don’t know how to convert that with gravity physics and a jump mechanic

[Tyller_]

@the_true_odst you use the intended and actual as a back bone, for the gravity you just set the intended x and intended y values at the changing, your gravity was mainly change y by 2 every frame and then change y by negative 2 to go down (from what I remember), you can set the intended y speed to 2 every frame (you dont need to every frame but it would work) and then the same with negative, you wouldn’t use 2 because multiplayer blocks make sprites move slower than if you moved them yourself so you have to retest it

basically, you replace all change y by blocks in your gravity with set intended y speed to a value and test for what they should be