About Zone and Creation in SmartFoxServer2X With Code Snippets
Zone:- Zone is a collection of rooms, in the earlier session we discussed what is a room in smartfoxserver2x, if we collect/categorize different rooms under one roof/section that part can be considered as zone.
What Zone refers and What it consists
- Zone consists various games/rooms.
- When a player wants to join/play a game/room they need to join first in zone Means Player (Login->Zone Join -> Room Join).
- The entire Zone related information held in zones folder of smartfoxserver2x with .zone.xml extension. (like casinogames.zone.xml, pokergames.zone.xml etc..)
- Zone will control the rooms means Zone will acts as a parent and room is a child of zone.
- If the user need to interact/control the zone we can control it programmatically.
- We can’t create the zones at runtime, where as we can create the rooms at runtime of SmartfoxServer2x.
Zone Creation
- We can create the zones manually by creating zone.xml files under zones folder
- We can create the zones using SmartfoxAdminTool in easy GUI manner.
- Simple code to create room from Server side:
- Simple code to create room at Client side:
When we have rooms
why we need zones? Example
Let me explain Zone-Room with an example:-
I have the following games and I need to run those games in smartfoxserver2x those are
| 1. Star Wars (MMO game) | 2. Lord of Rings (MMO game) | 3. Roulette36 (Casino Game) |
| 4. Dice Twister (Casino game) | 5. Roulette18(Casino game | 6. Joker World (Video Poker casino) |
| 7. Lucky 74(Video Poker casino) | 8. NoHolds(VideoPoker Casino) | 9. TeenPati(Poker variant) |
| 10. Texas Hold’em (poker Variant) | 11. Omaha (poker variant)) | 12. 7-card Stud(poker variant) |
If you observe the above games there are mainly 4 categories like
- MMO Games
- Casino Games
- Video Poker Games
- Poker Games.
Now If all the games are clubbed as one group then
- Monitoring of users for a particular type is difficult.
- A Player can’t play multiple games at a time. Etc.,
So each Game Category can be considered as a Zone means MMOZone (Holds MMO Games), CASINOZone (Holds Casino Games), VIDEOPOKERZone(Holds VideoPoker games), POKERZone (Holds Poker games).
Zone Level Events
- SFSEventType.USER_JOIN_ZONE is the only event which is related to zone at server side.
- ZoneJoinRequest() is the only request avail at client side related to zone.