Description

This function will create a multi-player session using the Session Template, matchmaking hopper and Secure Device Association template, which you should have created beforehand in the XDP dashboard. The user ID you can retrieve for a particular game pad by calling the xboxlive_user_for_pad() function and visibility will be one of the following constants:

Constant	Description
xboxlive_match_visibility_open	specifies that the session can be joined by the others.
xboxlive_match_visibility_private	specifies that the session is not visible to users who are not session members.
xboxlive_match_visibility_usetemplate	specifies that the value used in the session template should be used (this should normally be used as you can't override a template's value if one has been set in XDP).

The function returns a unique Request ID value, which can then be used to identify the correct Social Asynchronous Event for this function. This event will be triggered when the session has been created and will contain a DS Map in the variable async_load with the following key/value pairs:

• "requestid" – contains the request ID as returned by the calling function
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• "status" – contains the string "session_created" to inform you of what type of event has been triggered.
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• "sessionid" – contains the session ID, or -1 in case of failure
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• "error" – contains 0 on success, or -1 in case of failure
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• "correlationid" - the session handle for correlation with the function xboxlive_matchmaking_join_session()
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Syntax:

xboxlive_matchmaking_create(user_id, visibility, template, hopper, sdatemplate, [matchattributes]);

Argument	Description
user_id	The user ID pointer to use
visibility	One of the constants listed above
template	The name of the session template
hopper	The name of the matchmaking hopper
sdatemplate	The name of the secure device association template
matchattributes	[OPTIONAL]

Returns:

Request ID (integer)

Example:

var userID = xboxlive_user_for_pad(global.PadIndex);
result = xboxlive_matchmaking_create(userID, xboxlive_match_visibility_usetemplate, "MatchTicketSession", "MatchTicketHopper", "PeerServerTraffic");

The above will retrieve the user ID for the user on the given gamepad and then initialise a matchmaking session for them.