If a game is running, and a new player joins, all the items in the game are synchronized and created on his computer. Can I exclude some items from this process?

Hmm...what do you mean? I think I have an idea of what you are getting at but could you explain further?

GBK's main TCS cog handled all 3do's. Every "thing" was created and destroyed locally. Now, his main TCS was designed for single player, but I'm sure it could have be modified for multiplayer use. There by allowing an editor to pick and choose what and what not to snyc.

Well, the host creates several things during gameplay, and if a new player joins, these things are automagically created on his machine, too. I don't want that to happen.
I'm asking for an easy way, like some flags or something. If there is no such way, I'll have to loop through all things and destroy them by hand.

So like, if you pickup an item on one computer the item would still be there on the other?

the cog flag 0x200 will stop cog syncing if that's what you want.

I don't believe there's any way other than manually removing the items.

No, like, a player joins and has only got half of the pickups the other players have in their level.


Not exactly. You see, the thing synchronization during game join has nothing to do with cog, it seems.

Actaully thats a very odd problem because its always been my experience most things created after a level starts are not sync'd.
Maybe JK only sync's items (type 4 or whatever) and ignores syncing other things.

you can probably ditch the taken:, respawn:, and conventional stuff and make your own cogs for powerups using timers and things, then you can use 0x200

Yeah, but the problem is: I cannot write these cogs. The template is a healthpack one, and if I write a pow_healthpack (or whatever) cog, I will lose the compatibility feature.
Well, I guess I'll have to do it the hard way, then. A thinloop that destroys all healthpacks at given positions.