Minor docs error

mindlube

The PDF manual says

//Join a room (creates if it does not exists) 
PhotonNetwork.JoinRoom(roomName);

But I get a "game does not exist" exception if I call that on a nonexistent room.

Leepo

Thanks, this has been corrected for 1.8.

carmine

Hello,
I am using v1.8 and it still does not work. (I just re-imported it to be sure).

joinGame failed, client stays on masterserver: OperationResponse 226: ReturnCode: 32758 (Game does not exist). Parameters: {}.

Also, I noticed in the code: JoinRoom(Room room) just calls this... JoinRoom(room.name);

What if I setup "Room" with a hash table of properties.. it would never get in there.

-Carmine

Kaiserludi

Leepo meant, that the docs have been corrected: It intended behavior, that you can only join exisiting rooms and have to call createRoom to create a new one.

Tobias

If you want to join just any room, do this:

• Try JoinRandomRoom
• Implement OnPhotonRandomJoinFailed and make it create a room if needed (make sure to set maxPlayers or you will end up with one room)

greenland

Tobias wrote:

If you want to join just any room, do this:

• Try JoinRandomRoom
• Implement OnPhotonRandomJoinFailed and make it create a room if needed (make sure to set maxPlayers or you will end up with one room)

I'm following the Marco Polo tutorial and I still get an exception.

joinrandom failed, client stays on masterserver: OperationResponse 225: ReturnCode: 32760 (No match found). Parameters: {}.
UnityEngine.Debug:LogError(Object)
PhotonHandler:DebugReturn(DebugLevel, String) (at Assets/Photon Unity Networking/Plugins/PhotonNetwork/PhotonHandler.cs:125)
NetworkingPeer:DebugReturn(DebugLevel, String) (at Assets/Photon Unity Networking/Plugins/PhotonNetwork/NetworkingPeer.cs:680)
NetworkingPeer:OnOperationResponse(OperationResponse) (at Assets/Photon Unity Networking/Plugins/PhotonNetwork/NetworkingPeer.cs:876)
ExitGames.Client.Photon.PeerBase:DeserializeMessageAndCallback(Byte[])
ExitGames.Client.Photon.EnetPeer:DispatchIncomingCommands()
ExitGames.Client.Photon.PhotonPeer:DispatchIncomingCommands()
PhotonHandler:Update() (at Assets/Photon Unity Networking/Plugins/PhotonNetwork/PhotonHandler.cs:79)

This is all the code I have in the project:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class RandomMatchmaker : MonoBehaviour {

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
		PhotonNetwork.ConnectUsingSettings("devel");
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void OnGUI () {
		GUILayout.Label(PhotonNetwork.connectionStateDetailed.ToString());
	}
	void OnJoinedLobby(){
		PhotonNetwork.JoinRandomRoom();	
	}
	void OnPhotonRandomJoinFailed(){
		PhotonNetwork.CreateRoom(null);
	}
}

I still get this error using both 1.9 localhost server, and the cloud trial.
Am I doing something wrong?

EDIT:
In retrospect, try probably means try... not sure why I figured that method would handle the exception. Well, the docs aren't idiot prof, apparently.

Tobias

Yes, JoinRandomRoom can fail. After all, there's no guarantee that any game is currently available.
The demo goes on to create a room and the next player will join (randomly).

The log output in this case is a bit misleading. It should be a warning or info.
Sorry to confuse you.