GUI[resolved] and MAP[waiting]?

[pelonzudo]

Hello people, I'm here again. After getting my client/server working and some useful stuff there I got a some questions....

1) Could I get a pointer to an IGUIElement back? What I mean

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IGUIEnvironment * gui= device->getGUIEnvironment ();
gui->addSomeGuiElementHere(......IDENTIFIER...);
...
some code here
...
and later
...
gui->giveMeBack(...IENTIFIER...);

I know that you get a pointer when you add the element, but what I want is get the pointer back in some class that don't know the pointer.
I was thinking in a class that manage all gui elements. Any suggestion about impelenting GUI?

2)As I have a server and a client... How could I get both maps sincronized? Here I explain. I could desing a 3D world with (for example) Blender and render it in my client. Now, what I need is get all maps (not textures, only geometry) in the server.

I had been reading about that, and the mesh get in the info what I need. Isn't it? Any help here?

Thanks in advance

[radical-dev]

Hi pelonzudo!

To get a pointer from a gui element just call this:

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IGUIEnvironment->getRootGuiElement()->getElementFromId(s32 id)

To your other question i can't answer you

Greetings

[pelonzudo]

Thanks, that was what I need for poit 1. I couldn't find it becouse I was looking into the incoorect way. Now I got a problem solved. ^.^

Anything about point 2?

[Masterhawk]

2)As I have a server and a client... How could I get both maps sincronized? Here I explain. I could desing a 3D world with (for example) Blender and render it in my client. Now, what I need is get all maps (not textures, only geometry) in the server.

I understand your problem in that way: The client loads a geometry the server can't know. The server needs this geometry for whatever. That's right?
If your server really needs to have the geometry I think you have to send it the data piece by piece. I guess this won't work in realtime. Maybe you can realize an upload to the server.

If you just want to synchronize client and server it's maybe enough to deal with positions of the players or something and synchronizes them. This would cost much less capaticity.

[JP]

could you not just send the server the filename to open and then it can open it itself (of course the map file would have to be installed on the server as well).

[pelonzudo]

I think in the way that JP said. I had the files in the server and the client. But what I need know if what kind of files I must have (the server only load geometry and the client geometry and textures) and how load that kind of files in the server.

[JP]

You could have two versions of the map, one has the textures removed, the other doesn't. Or you setup your server prog to ignore textures being loaded somehow.

The first option there is probably the easiest but maybe the most prone to error as you may forget to update both versions of the map or something (but then that could happen anyway due to having the map on both client and server)

The second option would probably require some editing of Irrlicht to provide an option to disable texture loading.

[Masterhawk]

Indeed, if the file are present on both systems you should submit the the filename only.