Need some help with GMFlox

[comatsu]

I've recently found out about GM Flox on the marketplace, and it seems like a perfect extension to implement cloud saving, leaderboards and other stuff to my game.

However I am having some trouble understanding how to use it - perhaps someone here has some experience with it and can help?

Currently I am just trying to use the system to save the player's level. On game start I use flox init, and once the player starts the game, a new entity 'Save' is created. In this the player saves a property named 'level' with their level number.

Now when the player closes the game and starts again, I want the next time he sets the 'level' property to update the previous property he had created. Instead when I use

flox_entity_set("Save","level",2)

this creates a new property with the new level number.

I understand that I am supposed to load the previously existing entity created by the player, but how do i go about it? It seems that to load an entity I need the entity ID, but I do now know how to request this...

 

[Paolo Mazzon]

I don't have Flox GM, but the documentation is here. Try out that stuff.

 

[joakimFF]

//save
var player = flox_player_get();
flox_entity_set(player,"level",2)
flox_entity_save_queued();

//load
level = flox_entity_get(player,"level");

 

[comatsu]

//save
var player = flox_player_get();
flox_entity_set(player,"level",2)
flox_entity_save_queued();

//load
level = flox_entity_get(player,"level");

Wow - thanks

 

[studio furukawa]

//save
var player = flox_player_get();
flox_entity_set(player,"level",2)
flox_entity_save_queued();

//load
level = flox_entity_get(player,"level");

is there a string limit for saving a ds_list converted to a string?

also, does anyone know when is the best time to save and load?

 

[joakimFF]

Yes there is a limit but I dont remember the exact number, but its big enough like 100000 +,

return question have you tried or could you try loading leaderboard scores by ids, im getting nothing in return and starting to wonder if there is a bug in Flox.

 

[studio furukawa]

Yes there is a limit but I dont remember the exact number, but its big enough like 100000 +,

return question have you tried or could you try loading leaderboard scores by ids, im getting nothing in return and starting to wonder if there is a bug in Flox.

using ID's instead of Scope?

 

[joakimFF]

Yeah IDs in a ds_list

 

[studio furukawa]

this could help http://gamua.com/blog/2013/11/how-to-retrieve-friend-scores/

 

[joakimFF]

yeah I have read that one,

this is Ryans / RaniSputniks own words on how to do it,


var leaderboard_id = "myleaderboard";
var friends = ds_list_create();
// Add specific player ids into the friends list
ds_list_add(friends, "xb23hb30423n","ask1298123i","hb12u39nkjs");
// Load the scores for the players specified
flox_leaderboard_load(leaderboard_id, friends, scrOnScoresLoaded,scrOnScoresFailed);


but the list I get back is empty. for me this is a huge problem as its the only way to get players outside of the top 200 range, as flox only sends you the top 200 when using daily/weekly/month scope. meaning without it it is impossible to rank friends against each other.

 

[Soulie]

yeah I have read that one,

this is Ryans / RaniSputniks own words on how to do it,


var leaderboard_id = "myleaderboard";
var friends = ds_list_create();
// Add specific player ids into the friends list
ds_list_add(friends, "xb23hb30423n","ask1298123i","hb12u39nkjs");
// Load the scores for the players specified
flox_leaderboard_load(leaderboard_id, friends, scrOnScoresLoaded,scrOnScoresFailed);


but the list I get back is empty. for me this is a huge problem as its the only way to get players outside of the top 200 range, as flox only sends you the top 200 when using daily/weekly/month scope. meaning without it it is impossible to rank friends against each other.

Did you have any luck solving this in the end? I'm using flox too.

 

[joakimFF]

yep it turned out it was a bug in flox, but its fixed. im not sure if Ryan has updated the market place version but you can grab the latest from https://github.com/RaniSputnik/Flox-GML/