Size limit in usermessages?

[Saint Devil]

Is there a size limit for strings in usermessages? If so, what is it?

[Gmod4ever]

I'm not completely positive, but I'm pretty sure there is.

If there is, then I'd imagine it's 256 characters.

Though why you're networking a string that big is terrifying, anyways. :gonk:

[Saint Devil]

I was thinking of sending a usermessage with a glon'd table, but I guess datastream would be more efficient.

[Terabit]

You can only use 255 of the 256 if I recall correctly.

[H0rsey]

You dont need to use datastream,

just send each peice of the table via umsg to the client and store it. Not hard.
And yes, the limit of a umsg is 256 characters, therefore you shouldnt really send a huge table
in one usermessage as it will probably fail.

[lua]
local table = { "example1", "example2", "example3" };
local delay = 0;

for k, v in pairs( table ) do

local function send( data )

umsg.Start( "SEND", ply );
umsg.String( data );
umsg.End();

end

timer.Simple( delay, send, v );
delay = delay + .2;

end
[/lua]

Then on the client

[lua]
local table = { }

function Get( msg )

local piece = msg:ReadString();

table.insert( table, piece );

end
usermessage.Hook( "SEND", Get );
[/lua]

Basicly send each value by usermessage to the client with a small delay between each piece.

[disseminate]

Datastream is not efficient at all.

[Aide]

Shouldn't the limit be 255. I thought the last one was use to send or something along those lines.

[commander204]

Yeah 255 the last one is used for the player index or something.