Chatting on multiple servers

[FlyingSpoon]

Hey, I saw this in a few servers, they've made a script so that, for example if they have 2 servers, players can talk to eachother from the 2 servers. Like -

e.g. -

[DM]: Player1: Hey!

And the player on the other server -

[SH]: Player2: Hey!

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I've seen it in a few servers? How can I do this?

[GTX]

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/CallRemote

There's an example (Example #2).

Edited May 14, 2017 by GTX

[FlyingSpoon]

-- Remote function set with callRemote 'functionName' argument
-- Called from/on remote servers
function outputChatBoxRemote ( playerName, message, type, serverport )
    outputChatBox ( "From " .. playerName .. " on " .. serverport .. ": " .. message )
    return "hello sailor"
end

-- Callback set with callRemote 'callbackFunction' argument
-- Called on the local server when callRemote has completed successfully or with errors
function finishedCallback( responseData, errno )
    responseData = tostring(responseData)
    if responseData == "ERROR" then
        outputDebugString( "callRemote: ERROR #" .. errno )
    elseif responseData ~= "hello sailor" then
        outputDebugString( "callRemote: Unexpected reply: " .. responseData  )
    else
        -- callRemote completed successfully
    end
end

function playerChat ( message, type )
    callRemote ( "play.mtabeta.com:33004", getResourceName(getThisResource()), "outputChatBoxRemote", finishedCallback, getPlayerName(source), message, type, getServerPort() )
    callRemote ( "play.mtabeta.com:33005", getResourceName(getThisResource()), "outputChatBoxRemote", finishedCallback, getPlayerName(source), message, type, getServerPort() )
    callRemote ( "play.mtabeta.com:33006", getResourceName(getThisResource()), "outputChatBoxRemote", finishedCallback, getPlayerName(source), message, type, getServerPort() )
end
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerChat", getRootElement(), playerChat )

Okay I get that all, how would I make it so for example, if I have a seperate chat binded on say for example "G". How would I use that chat? Instead of the default chat.

[GTX]

You can bind it like so:

bindKey("G", "down", "chatbox", "Global")

addCommandHandler("Global",
  function()
    -- stuff
  end
)

 

[FlyingSpoon]

function globalMessage(thePlayer, cmd, ...)
    local message = table.concat ( { ... }, " " )
    local name = getPlayerName(thePlayer)
    outputChatBox("#B24D4D[Global]#FFFFFF "..name..": #ffffff"..message, players, 255, 255, 255, true)
end
addCommandHandler("global", globalMessage)

function outputChatBoxRemote ( playerName, message, type, serverport )
    outputChatBox ( "From " .. playerName .. " on " .. serverport .. ": " .. message )
    outputDebugString ( "From " .. playerName .. " on " .. serverport .. ": " .. message )
    return "hello sailor"
end

function finishedCallback( responseData, errno )
    responseData = tostring(responseData)
    if responseData == "ERROR" then
        outputDebugString( "callRemote: ERROR #" .. errno )
    elseif responseData ~= "hello sailor" then
        outputDebugString( "callRemote: Unexpected reply: " .. responseData  )
    else
    end
end

function playerChat ( message, type )
    callRemote ( "46.4.173.215:22004", getResourceName(getThisResource()), "outputChatBoxRemote", finishedCallback, getPlayerName(source), message, type, getServerPort() )
    callRemote ( "46.4.173.215:22005", getResourceName(getThisResource()), "outputChatBoxRemote", finishedCallback, getPlayerName(source), message, type, getServerPort() )
end
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerChat", getRootElement(), playerChat )

 

[15:34:56] WARNING: chat/server.lua:25: Bad argument @ 'callRemote' [Expected st
ring at argument 4, got function]
[15:35:02] WARNING: chat/server.lua:26: Bad argument @ 'callRemote' [Expected st
ring at argument 4, got function]

Also how would I only set it so the global chat only appears?
 

Edited May 15, 2017 by raysmta

[Anubhav]

function globalMessage(thePlayer, cmd, ...)
    local message = table.concat ( { ... }, " " )
    local name = getPlayerName(thePlayer)
    outputChatBox("#B24D4D[Global]#FFFFFF "..name..": #ffffff"..message, players, 255, 255, 255, true)
end
addCommandHandler("global", globalMessage)

function outputChatBoxRemote ( playerName, message, type, serverport )
    outputChatBox ( "From " .. playerName .. " on " .. serverport .. ": " .. message )
    outputDebugString ( "From " .. playerName .. " on " .. serverport .. ": " .. message )
    return "hello sailor"
end

function finishedCallback( responseData, errno )
    responseData = tostring(responseData)
    if responseData == "ERROR" then
        outputDebugString( "callRemote: ERROR #" .. errno )
    elseif responseData ~= "hello sailor" then
        outputDebugString( "callRemote: Unexpected reply: " .. responseData  )
    else
    end
end

function playerChat ( message, type )
    callRemote ( "46.4.173.215:22004", getResourceName(getThisResource()), "outputChatBoxRemote", "46.4.173.215:22004", finishedCallback, getPlayerName(source), message, type, getServerPort() )
    callRemote ( "46.4.173.215:22005", getResourceName(getThisResource()), "outputChatBoxRemote","46.4.173.215:22005", finishedCallback, getPlayerName(source), message, type, getServerPort() )
end
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerChat", getRootElement(), playerChat )

And 

[FlyingSpoon]

function globalMessage(thePlayer, cmd, ...)
    local message = table.concat ( { ... }, " " )
    local name = getPlayerName(thePlayer)
    outputChatBox("#B24D4D[Global]#FFFFFF "..name..": #ffffff"..message, players, 255, 255, 255, true)
end
addCommandHandler("global", globalMessage)

function outputChatBoxRemote ( playerName, message, type, serverport )
    outputChatBox ( "From " .. playerName .. " on " .. serverport .. ": " .. message )
    outputDebugString ( "From " .. playerName .. " on " .. serverport .. ": " .. message )
    return "hello sailor"
end

function finishedCallback( responseData, errno )
    responseData = tostring(responseData)
    if responseData == "ERROR" then
        outputDebugString( "callRemote: ERROR #" .. errno )
    elseif responseData ~= "hello sailor" then
        outputDebugString( "callRemote: Unexpected reply: " .. responseData  )
    else
    end
end

function playerChat ( message, type )
    callRemote ( "46.4.173.215:22004", getResourceName(getThisResource()), "outputChatBoxRemote", "46.4.173.215:22004", finishedCallback, getPlayerName(source), message, type, getServerPort() )
    callRemote ( "46.4.173.215:22005", getResourceName(getThisResource()), "outputChatBoxRemote","46.4.173.215:22005", finishedCallback, getPlayerName(source), message, type, getServerPort() )
end
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerChat", getRootElement(), playerChat )

callRemote: ERROR #404

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Also I added this into both ACL's of the servers -

 

    <group name="OutRPCGroup">
       <acl name="OutRPC" />
       <object name="resource.chat" />
    </group>
    <acl name="OutRPC">
      <right name="function.callRemote" access="true" />
    </acl>
    
	<group name="InRPCGroup">
    <acl name="InRPC" />
      <object name="user.http_guest" />
    </group>
    <acl name="InRPC">
      <right name="resource.chat.http" access="true" />
	</acl>

"chat" being the name of the resource.

Edited May 16, 2017 by raysmta

[FlyingSpoon]

bump

[Dealman]

The 404 means the host was not found - make sure you've filled the necessary arguments properly.

Did you export the function? If no, you may have to do that.

On my phone atm so can't really review the code

[FlyingSpoon]

My servers are all on the same machine, and the exports are in both servers too.

[koragg]

You can take a look at how it's done here: https://github.com/JarnoVgr/Mr.Green-MTA-Resources/tree/master/resources/[web]/interchat

[Anubhav]

The IP/Port is wrong.

You might wanna change it to localhost, as you told it is on the same machine.

[FlyingSpoon]

I tried localhost too.

[GTX]

You must use HTTP port (so according to default MTA configuration, it's 22005. Use the one that you put in mtaserver.conf under httpport attribute)