A Primer for RakNet using Irrlicht

roninmagus · Post by **roninmagus** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:10 pm

I have written a fairly extensive tutorial for using the RakNet networking library inside a game/application created with the Irrlicht 3d engine. Irrlicht is my engine of choice, and this tutorial shows how to create an Irrlicht application whose event handler calls function in RakNet.

The code is not reliant upon Irrlicht, it's just what I chose to use. The tutorial is oriented towards showing basic networking methods for people with little knowledge of networking.

In the tutorial, you build a small client/server drawing application called Chalkboard. As the clients draw on the window provided to them, the server relays the information about what they draw to all the other connected clients, thereby creating a simple networked drawing program.

It contains excellent information about each function, the RakNet functions used, Packet structures, encoding custom data into a single packet to send, and much more information!

It is a great starting point for people to write their own Client/Server applications using RakNet.

You'll be surprised at how easy it is!

http://www.daveandrews.org/articles/irrlicht_raknet/

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:32 pm

That looks great.

I've downloaded it and will be taking a look as I will be using raknet in my own game.

Thankyou for posting this tutorial.

bal · Post by **bal** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:43 am

Very nice work. Everything is explained well and in clear language. Great job

.

Perhaps you could add it to the Wiki as well?

roninmagus · Post by **roninmagus** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:13 pm

That's a great idea

I added it to the tutorials page:

http://www.irrforge.org/index.php/Tutorials

Loopy · Post by **Loopy** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:54 pm

very nice tutorial. Thanks.

Is RakNet really free ?
I downloaded the free version but i found their license to be a bit confusing for me....
Am i allowed to use the free version commercially ?
I think 32 connections are enough for me, and i don't wanna pay $2000 to get unilmited connections and the full source code of the commercial license....

Maybe i'm just missing something, but i hate wasting time reading huge licenses

roninmagus · Post by **roninmagus** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:06 am

Yes, the license is free, but you cannot use it in a commercial project without permission from Rakkarsoft. There is no longer any charge for that.

Anything non-commercial and you can use the GPL license for RakNet.