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    <p><span class="RakNetBlueHeader">Use Steamworks to join Lobbies, Rooms, and do NAT traversal</span></p>
    <p>The Lobby2Client_Steam plugin provides an interface to Steamworks services that cooperate with RakNet. This avoids the need to host your owns sever, which is otherwise required by RakNet's <a href="natpunchthrough.html">NATPunchthrough</a> and <a href="lobby.html">Lobby</a> systems.</p>
    <p>Dependencies:</p>
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<LI>Assumes the Steam SDK is located at C:\Steamworks . If not, modify the post-build step paths and linker paths accordingly.
<LI>You can get the Steamworks API from https://partner.steamgames.com/ , which requires a signup and legal agreement.
<LI>You need your own steam_appid.txt file. This sample just copies the one that comes with steam.
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<p>Operations include:</p>
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<LI><strong>Get the list of rooms </strong>- L2MID_Console_SearchRooms
<LI><strong>Leave a room</strong> - L2MID_Console_LeaveRoom
<LI><strong>Create a room</strong> - L2MID_Console_CreateRoom
<LI><strong>Join a room</strong> - L2MID_Console_JoinRoom
<LI><strong>Get details about a specific room</strong> - L2MID_Console_GetRoomDetails
<LI><strong>Send a chat message to a room</strong> - L2MID_Console_SendRoomChatMessage
<LI><strong>Get the members in a room</strong>- Lobby2Client_Steam::GetRoomMembers
<LI><strong>Get notification of NAT Traversal success</strong> - SteamResults::Notification_Console_RoomMemberConnectivityUpdate
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<p><em>See the sample project Samples\SteamLobby for an implementation of this system.</em></p></TD>
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        <a href="lobby.html">Lobby</a><br>
          <a href="natpunchthrough.html">NATPunchthrough</a><BR>
        <a href="plugininterface.html">PluginInterface</a></p></TD></TR></TABLE>
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