I like gaming and I've been toying with UE4. Lemme attempt to connect!

I'll be watching the spawn point!

So I got it running at a smooth 60+ or so however actually clicking on the icons "Other game.exe" did nothing. I had to go into the binaries folder and run the game from there.
Hitting Q loads no prompt to attempt to connect D:

Oh sorry it's `

Press that button!

Ahhh I need food.

No prompt when attempting to connect either. Hmm.
Also, I suggest renaming the folder, the .exe's are broken because the folder is named incorrectly

Derp. Can you tell I set up this upload on an empty stomach?

Eating now.

Uh...I think I got a robot to follow me?

Heh, yeah that thing's creepy. The only way to loose it is to be really good at hiding behind stuff, or distracting it with another player.

So, I see no way of being able to connect. Not even to my hope address...which is odd.

Hm, you tried it on a second PC? Crap, I was hoping it was just because my Surface was so laggy. Thanks for giving it a shot.

I'll keep looking into it.

Alright talking on comments here is ridiculous. Have you got a Voip? Skype perhaps, much easier to talk and attempt to figure all this fun stuff out

I don't have a VOIP and my skype is busted. I'm actually about to shower and head to bed, we have until early friday to figure this out (then I'm busy). Cya in 30 minutes.

Open MapName?listen
Type that on the server real quick, I got myeslf to connect to myself. My computer is dying here from having 5 of these open in testing ha!

You got it to connect to yourself?! =D

Whoa that did something, try connecting!

Also holy fucking shit, my computer chugs when I have 3 mini windows open for debugging purposes!

Oh I'm running...a lot of things right now.
Anyway, Lemme note you real quick, I opened my ports to see if it's just on your side or otherwise. Lemme try to host real quick and I'll note you my IP.

Typing "open <ip>" in the console did nothing. Will try command line. Btw is it not wise to post my IP online? I'm pretty sure it's my router IP anyway, they shouldn't be able to get any of the PCs behind it (right?)

From your audience?
I highly doubt anyone will do anything, but typically no. Bad idea to post your computers IP.

Not sure you got my note but what client command did you use on your own computers? I'm currently messing around with ports and firewalls.

Hmm. Well for now I would actually have to do my own tests with my game...to...see how things actually work out.
So I wish you the best of luck, but I can't help much more. I don't enough experience!

Could you please try connecting once more, and open a server? I think it might be talking through port 80- Port 7777 won't open, but port 80 will!

NVM default port is 7777. I'll repackage and re-upload a version that uses port 80.

So the problem is definitely that port 7777 refuses to open, at least on my end. Thanks for your help debugging and for that link, dunno how you found that but it's quite helpful!

Google with the right keywords is a powerful tool!
Note me the new download, I'll happily run around and toss pots for a few minutes before I attempt to draw again...

About to head to bed? Jeez man it's like.. 11:30 in the morning. Talk about all nighters.

New version's up, runs on ports 78 and 80. Download's at the same link, I gotta head to bed though. 'Night

Nah just adjusted my schedule for a big upcoming event =)

I used it a ton to make this, I just never saw that page with the words I tried.

So, how does this gonna work anyways? Any, um, list of planned features?

At the moment you just huck potions at each other and watch the results play out =)

The plan is to have a village full of bots and shops with many different little "TF stories" that you can bring upon yourself. Sort of like The Stanley Parable, lots of endings, most of them not happy. Also, online RP functionality (plus this little mayhem mode here).

I really like the idea of this. I was able to get it running (took a little while) and played around a bit. There was someone on, but I couldn't change them by throwing potions at them. I think the thing that bothered me most was that the hair kept freaking out while moving, which showed the bare back of my head (and i couldn't figure out how to walk vs. run). Like you said, it's a rough version. I can't wait until it is done!

The hair kept freaking out on your local machine? Fuck, that's bad news.

The hair uses a "spring bone" function I have no control over. I might not be able to fix this.

oooo, awesome.

this might help : https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/b.....king-tutorials

I think it just tells you how to approach the scripting, but I didn't watch the last 15 min of the last video. I'll check that in a few min.

Uuuh... will there be a Linux Version I could toy with? C:

Not ATM, but Epic says they're working on added Linux support down the line.

Everything's on the mouse (plus WASD keys). Hold right mouse and scrolling isn't popping up colored text for you?

Ah yes I built this game to be entirely one handed. Without a proper mouse you're screwed.

You don't own a mouse? Two things then: One, if you're trying to run this on an old laptop it's not worth the effort, I get 3fps on my surface pro. Two, this is a rough early version, if you go to a lot of trouble to get it working you'll be disappointed.

That looks like a nice laptop, better than either of mine. Heh, I was worried you were trying to run this on an old Thinkpad XD

hmm for some reason i down load it and all it does when I try to open it is save the file again and again

Huh? You got a .7z file right? You need to unzip it to run it.

Ohh man what time to have a busted computer >~< wel I cant waot to play thos hege so what can u do so far on the game run around and tgtf people?? ^^

Pretty much. Super basic right now, I spent so much time setting up the foundations. Fuck network replication btw.

Tried to run it and it wouldn't work, getting an error: "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)."

Did you install the windows library linked there? I've never seen that error before.

I did, no success.

Does your computer run 64bit? Does your GPU run DX11?

Maybe your computer's loading 32bit dlls or something http://stackoverflow.com/questions/.....tly-0xc000007b
Also I uploaded two new versions, one at least (maybe both) of which have 32 bit executables. Maybe those will work.

I honestly have no idea, you'll have a much luck sorting it out as I will. I say this mostly because I need to go to sleep, I'll be back in 8 hours for more trouble shooting.

Computer is 64-bit, GTX480's support dx11 - I downloaded and ran the 64bit version that you just uploaded and the same error appears. It's possible 32bit dll's are trying to be loaded, so I tried to download the 32bit version and discovered there's no executable :V

Now in the new 64 bit version you've got there's a second folder labelled 32bit, I just checked it and it does in fact run 32bit. Try that.

So I'm not sure if there's some delay on the site you're using in posting the file, downloaded it again and still no 32-bit executable.

Or they are removing the folder that contains it.

Any way you could just include the required dll's in the folder?

managed to fix this issue, was a pain in the ass

'Morning. How did you fix it?

I had to remove all the issue dlls, reinstall all runtime distros and reinstall dx, then that didn't work and I found out somehow one of my 64bit dlls was 32bit and it wasn't replacing it when I reinstalled - had to remove that specific one and reinstall again.

Jeeze. Which dll? Other people are getting this error and I can't help them since I can't replicate it.

They have to figure out which one was giving the error and they're missing, then download the installer for it - it sounds like other people don't have the right disto installed and they are manually downloading the dll's (which will create a lot of problems).

I think you can actually just put the dlls your program needs into the executables directory and it will load them from there btw.

Right distro? What type of distro? Like their OS distro?

I have no idea what dlls you guys don't have, or even if it's different for everyone. If it's this one MSVCP120.dll, that SHOULD have been solved by the download link I provided. Maybe you have to download both the x86 and x64 versions, I don't know.

https://answers.unrealengine.com/qu.....s-missing.html

I might be able to include the dlls in the future, but I have no idea why the packages I linked weren't working for people missing that dll in the first place.

I was refering to the microsoft vs c++ redistribution.

So how it works is, if they're having a problem, it really isn't your fault.

You can solve the issues by including the required dll's just so there are no issues, but how it happens is that a lot of people download programs that overwrite newer versions of the dll's. For some reason reinstalling the mvc++ redistributable packages doesn't always overwrite the bad ones.

My problem was one of the directx dll's, and after reinstalling directx it didn't overwrite the bad one. I had to manually find the file that was causing issues (it was a 32bit x3d sound dll in the 64 bit directory) and delete it, then install directx. They all have the same names and there's honestly almost no way to tell.

Also uh, I dunno if you checked the end-user file you uploaded, but I never saw a 32bit executable in any of the files you uploaded.

So there's no way that you can help them, they have to go through and remove the distributable files manually (which is a huge pain) and find the problem dll.

It's like it's either x3daudio_7 or msvcp120 or msvcr(?)120 (there's 2 120's) - those are the files that it gave me errors on. Remove those from sys32, reinstall directx/2013 redistribution.

Thank you, this is very helpful and informative.

Hm, so steam games sometimes 'ghost run' installers like this before playing, but the installer itself is failing...

It's risky to do, but the game does run C++... I could just add some code to delete those files from the user's system and copy new ones in... But I don't know enough about windows to know that this won't completely FUBAR the user's system.

Actually it would have to be a separate .exe since the game code never even executes, doy.

And yes, you have to install both the 32bit and 64bit versions of the redistribution.

And yeah, I should note like the person down below me, I had it tell me I had 3 missing .dll files (which I found) before I finally got to this error.

And the 32bit one you uploaded actually has no executable.

What the actual fuck.

Same here, after fixing a problem with the MSVCR120.dll

I uploaded two new versions, one of which (maybe both) have 32 versions. (I say maybe because a the _ports_78_80 version suddenly includes a 32bit copy even though I didn't tell it to). Maybe those will run, this link indicates the problem might be using a 32bit dll with a 64 bit program http://stackoverflow.com/questions/.....tly-0xc000007b

I gtg to bed, cya in 8 hours.

cools will try it out when g-cards fixed X3

Ah shitty.

had some problems with it so sent it for repairs X3

Had my problems too, same problems with not finding corresponding dll files

Look promising! I hope you get a Kick Starter for this, I would love to see this in bloom!

Dunno if kickstarter likes porn projects. I just need a small continuous income, so the plan is to do commissions and hope for donations when I release versions.

Have you heard of Offbeatr?

Hm... At first glance it doesn't look like it's pulling in much money. After a fair bit of work I do hope to find creative ways to make the game self sufficient, but I doubt this is the platform to do it on. Thanks though.

Just my first though in NSFW kickstarter, was what Fenoxo used for TITS I think.

I recently saw that post. He pulled in over $100k asking for just 10k? Damn.

O-M-G!!! This is the BEST thing EVER!!! I can't wait to see the finished product!!!

Gotta love boob physics =D Thanks, glad you're enthused. You found the slow mo button right? (Left CTRL)

You should Definitely post this to the TFgamessite forums. They love stuff like this

http://www.tfgamessite.com/phpbb3/index.php

eh, in my experience they are more interested in just doing MTF text games that are just fap smutt :P

Who said this isn't fap smut? =) But seriously I hope to see more people adopting this style of TF game, maybe I should post over there (especially once I open source the project assets).

That's exactly why it should be posted there^^

i know

As a network administrator, I would recommend using a port other than 80 (443, perhaps, due to it commonly being used for SSL/encrypted communications), due to some (especially enterprise/college/other shared) networks having transparent proxy servers or stateful, application-layer, packet-inspecting firewalls. Port 7777 could definitely cause problems. You could also look into UPnP, but not all routers running NAT support it.

Hi, I know next to nothing about this and am confused:

-Port 443: Since it's used for https which is encrypted, it can't normally examine the data and might not try and examine game packets?

-Not sure how it would help with those firewalls, seems like it would be setting-specific.

-UPnP seems to be WiFi plug and play for devices. I would think the OS would handle this, and it would have nothing to do with applications or games...?


Also so far no one's been able to connect across the internet, but everyone can connect to multiple versions running on their own computer using 127.0.0.1. Any idea why this might be? Port 80 is open and I added a bunch of Windows Firewall rules. (Unfortunately the process is super opaque, no error messages to work with). Thanks for your help!

My company has had similar problems with our client software. Essentially, since port 443 is normally used for HTTPS, firewalls/transparent proxies do not examine the contents of packets using this port, as doing so would require breaking SSL/TLS encryption, which would be all-but impossible. That being said, some antivirus software (such as BitDefender) have methods of reading these packets prior to the encryption phase on the client end. Many apps use 443 to transport data that would otherwise not get through a transparent proxy or a mid/high-end firewall. Also, have you considered the issues that arise from the all-but universal use of NAT (Network Address Translation)? Just because you have the port open on your server's local firewall, you still have to forward port 80/443/X from the Internet-facing side of the edge router/firewall running NAT to the internal IP address of the server.

Hi, I missed this comment. So I should forward the router port? I believe I did that...

I have no idea what I'm doing here with the files. I (think) I found the game itself in Othergame\Binaries\\Win64\Othergame, but when I try to run it, I get an error - MSVCR120.dll is missing. What should I do?

If you already downloaded the linked VS library, it's probably the same error Wat had. He said he figured it out, I'll get back to you if he posts his solution.

I found a website that let me download MSVCR120.dll and put it into System32 manually.

I can run the game now... but it's reeeaaaally slow. My frames are really bad. Anything I can do?

Not really. This thing is a beast on resources. I could release an alt version in the future with pre-made lighting, that might reduce the drag on your GPU.

I'd really love that, please! Anything you can do. I'm not really all that desperate for good lighting on the environments, but I think I'd still like some lighting on the character model.

Maybe integrate a lighting options function?

I have to figure out how to do user interfaces first. Unreal added a half decent interface system a few days ago, but it's still Work In Progress and likely sucks in a lot of ways because of it.

doing that did not work for me

Try putting the dll next to the .exe. Try downloading all the different versions of the C++ library I linked. I have no idea what's causing this bug since it doesn't happen on my computers. I'm just going to make a video for everyone who can't play...

still getting that 7b error

OtherGame.Exe - System Error

Program unable to start: MSVCR120.dll missing from computer.

If you already downloaded the linked VS library, it's probably the same error Wat had. He said he figured it out, I'll get back to you if he posts his solution.

Tried installing the dll file did not work i googled the problem and found it is recamended to have this file be included in the programs files and the executible be pathed to use that dll within the files.

I can't get it to run, I put that file in and I get some error message.

no idea what I"m doing in there. he just does her weird idle dance thing XD tryed right clicking while I was moving around and I instantly jumped to some valley spot. and it is very hard to control

The hell? Are you getting like 2fps or something? Also right clicking is for potions, it has nothing to do with movement. Try using WASD to walk if the mouse is glitched.

Also how did you finally get it to run (for other people with the same problem)?

downloaded installers VCredist_x86 and _arm
that made it work.

Visual studio 2010 dlls? So the 2013 copy wasn't working for you?

Hm...

Watsup identified that the 2013 version fails to overwrite bad dll files, perhaps the 2010 version succeeds where it fails. I'll have to get people to try this, thank you.

also I"m getting lts of frames. she just seems to be stuck constantly walking.

*loss of frames? *lots of frames?

Right so there's no idle animation yet. It doesn't really affect the gameplay, just keep her walking haha.

Also the point is to collect potions and throw them at yourself to bring on TFs.

can't seem to make that happen. most I casued was all the clothing effects to vanish for a moment and then the pants came back

....
That is really strange, lol the pants came back? Of all things... So the character model doesn't turn into things?

I'm not getting any of these errors on my own system, if you wanted to post a video of them that would be great. No promises that I can fix them, but I am curious.

its more likely I don't now my way around the pots.

The folder structure needs adjustments (the game exe is deeply buried in folders), but the screenshots and video look promising. Sadly I can't try it out because I don't use Windows. I hope you have plans for cross platform at some point. Looks interesting. :)

I think it can currently publish to Mac too, but Linux is still on the way. What do you use? Next time I can work on this I'll try and put out a bunch of different copies.

I use mint which is basically ubuntu. :)
VC 2013 doesn't install in wine, sadly.
I could try VM / virtualbox windows I guess. lol

That would be your only option for a few months yet, though you'll need a beast of a computer to handle a virtual machine AND this resource hog video game.

The game downloads faster than my steam games... or anything really wtf.

Huh. Maybe steam games aren't compressed, 7Zip somehow shrunk this from 1.27GB to 350mb. Also this website seems to have ridiculous bandwidth.

a little bit sad there is no 32 bit compilation.

I would love to play this game but every time i try and open the game it says that msvcr120.dll is missing so i tried to fix the problem and even downloaded a new one while watching a how to on youtube but it is still saying it is missing. Wtf is going on am I doing something wrong?

It's a problem with windows SxS. Try right clicking the exe and select 'run as administrator' You need to have installed DirectX and Visual Studio redistribs.

Visual Studio Redist: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down......aspx?id=40784
DirectX: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down.....ils.aspx?id=35

Well thanks for the info. I got it running but it is lagging very badly and i dint know all the controls yet.

I got the same lagging issue here. I'm wondering if it's just because the game is not very optimized much yet? Maybe it's just too next gen and intense for my laptop. :P

Probably the latter. Although, I am using basically ALL of the most processor intensive graphics features available.

ALso, delete the one you downloaded and make sure its not in the folder with the EXE.

this is looking really awesome! :D

Just wanna say I've been trying to make a 2D platformer/fighter kind of game (because I thought that would be the easiest to try) and it was insanely complicated and took a lot of work. After about 20 pages of writing how I think it can work on paper and getting it in code I had like a super ugly prototype that just supported animations, parallax backgrounds and walking/jumping with a floor I could draw in paint, and walls... It gave me head aches that lasted 2 weeks and I gave up because I just couldn't get certain bugs out of something so simple.
I am always amazed when someone else tries to make something, especially in 3D. I also know getting proper online play into a game is a nightmare... so I'm even more amazed =D
Shoot for the moon!

Picking a premade 'engine' certainly helps! Saves you the trouble of doing all the math, graphics drawing, etc and lets you focus more on content to get a prototype up and running!

interesting good sir. this will be interesting to play maybe one day it will be worthy of corruption of champions and or something.

Well, I'm not really a fan of text games. But I do hope to make this prettttty hot.

I know. perhaps you can get advice from fenxo and the staff working with him on making your game shine. :D

They are very different games. I think my game would need to be a bit more feature complete before I started talking to them about pornographic stories and gameplay.

ah I see fair enough.

how do you get this game to run smoothly?

If you're getting a poor framerate your PC is probably not powerful enough to handle this version. Future versions will be a somewhat easier on resources, but Unreal Engine 4 is a power hog.

I can't even get it to unzip. It creates folders and one single .pak file buried way down in them that doesn't do anything.

the 7zip I am using (win 10 7zip from the win app store) cant unzip it, it says its damaged. I have a 64-bit win10 computer. I know I have a graphics card thats good enough. Idk though, Win10 just had an update that deleted some of my drivers (like my audio) and maybe it did some other stuff that is messing things up.

I eventually got it to work but it's so choppy and I know my computer is well beyond good enough.

well, at least yours unzipped somewhat, my computer doesn't even unzip it, maybe if it was compressed in the regular way, not with this 7zip that required me to download another program. I know that if it were a regular .zip, I will be fine

so, bendzz, could you have an alternate .zip file for those who are having trouble with the .7z file?

I remember there was something I had to do to make it work, I just don't remember what that was.

You should work on this!

How do I open this?

I've got a problem. I download it (bear in mind this is Windows 10) but when I go into my downloads folder it doesn't show up as a Zip folder. So I can't extract it or anything.

10/10 would break again