How do I wait for peers to ready before starting the game?

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  • okay, so I'm making a multiplayer game and I'm working off from the Pong multiplayer example. That example waits for 3 seconds before starting the game, but what I want to do is to have both the host and peer to press "ready" button before starting the game.

    I keep getting problem here, I imagine I have to make the peer send a value to host indicating it's ready, and then I have to start the game after both the host and peer are ready. Somehow I fail to do that.

    I use 

    is Host |
is ReadyInRoom | (start game here)
Multiplayer.PeerState(peerId, "ready") = 1 |

    the ReadyInRoom variable indicates if the host is ready, and the peerState indicates if the peer is ready.

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  • You probably don't want to use the peerstate expression, unless your ready trigger is holding a key down. Peerstate is better used for inputs and not variables.

    I'd just have the peer send a message. When host receives the message, it also knows which peer sent it, and can set a variable for that peer to true or ready.

  • ah I thought I could use peerState. I will try to do your suggestion, I'll update if I found new problems.

    edit: I tried that, and it worked! Thank you.

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