Questions tagged [photon]
Photon is networking and multiplayer middleware.
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Unity Photon Pun get player count of room by room name
I'm trying to make a multiplayer game where there are multiple levels. All these levels will have different rooms, each with a max player count of 4.
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player selects a level
check if there ...
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How to disconnect from PhotonNetwork after a game is Over in Unity?
Right I found this question asked elsewhere but I am really stuck at the point where none of the solution is unfortunately working.
So when the game gets over, I have to load either the menu screen or ...
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Why can't I send a private message from one friend to another using Photon Chat
Hi I am trying to send a private message from one friend to another friend using Photon Chat. But for some reason I am not able to do. Rather I am getting the message what I am sending to myself.
So ...
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Why am I disconnecting from Photon Chat immediately after Connecting?
Hi I am experiencing a rather weird problem wherein which I am disconnecting from Photon Chat immediately after I am connecting to it. Here is the code I am using for Photon Chat.
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Photon pun room joining issue
I created the multiplayer game using Photon Pun. Player 1 is created the room. Player 2 is joining. After complete, the gameplay both exit the game. If player 2 clicks the room button to find another ...
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How to fix "Operation FindFriends (222) not called because client is not connected or not ready yet, client state: PeerCreated." in Photon
So here I am trying to add a Player as a friend to myself. I am following a tutorial for the same
So I am using the PlayFab to update the friend List. When the update is successful onFriendListSuccess(...
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How to implement a friend request system for multiplayer games in Unity
I am trying to convert my single player game into multiplayer game using Unity and Photon+PlayFab.
Here is exactly what I need:
Player A wants to be friend with Player B.
Player A sends a friend ...
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Creating a room with custom options that persist to other players
I am using Photon for networking in my project. I am creating a room with PhotonNetwork.CreateRoom(). I pass in the room name as well as a set of room options where the room options just specify the ...
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How do I send a push notification for a friend request for multi-Player game in Unity using Playfab+photon
So here I am trying to convert my single player game into multiplayer game.
I am able to work the part where the user can login to the game using Playfab via Username. I am able to create a friend ...
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How to create game server using Photon like SFS 2X
In SFS2X there is a user dashboard to upload the JAR file. The JAR file contains all the game logic. From Unity, I send a request to connect with the game server to play the game. How to do the same ...
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Photon PUN OnPlayerEnteredRoom not triggering
I'm very new to Photon, medium experience in Unity. I'm trying to implement a lobby where, once a player enters the room before the game starts, a player card pops up for them ie. just their picked ...
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How do i prevent the next player from being called?
I got help from someone on making a turn-based button but so far I am not able to prevent the button from getting the next player when a certain bool is activated in the room.
Initially, the ...
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Photon+Playfab Authentication: Photon Application Not Found
I've been trying to make this PlayFab+Photon Authentication script for my multiplayer game from this Photon quickstart guide but I got this error I have been trying to resolve:
🗨 PlayFab ...
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Cinemachine camera not working in Photon multiplayer system in Unity
I am fairly new to the whole multiplayer game mechanics, but I made a simple car controller and added Cinemachine camera as a child to the car and then made it into a prefab, and I instantiate the car ...
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How to make a normal object a child of a Photon object across network
I'm still fairly new to Photon, or online in general, I'm having a lot of difficulty assigning a child to the proper object. I'm using the Ready Player Me plugin(honestly, I hate it lol, but my client ...
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Facebook user data deletion call back unity game
I am working on the multiplayer game in unity using photon servers. I want to access the friends list, so users can invite and play with their friends. I have implemented the Facebook SDK.But in order ...
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regarding about game servers performance and security
I have two options to implement
should my game server access the database directly
should game server access database via api
would it be necessary to abstract the calls via api even though its ...
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game button animation lag with Photon
Friends, I am making games using photon. But I could not do the delay animation as described in this link.
The action appears to be late on the player according to the ping. Can you give an ideas ...
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Photon Transforms syncing other transforms
I have a problem wherein this happens:
It's problematic because I'm unfamiliar how to set the same player value in the same transform over the network. Is there a way where if I get the list of ...
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Automatic Disconnecting of Players and The game is kinda Lag in PUN 2
I am creating a 3d game application in unity with the use of PUN2. When I start the game, all players automatically disconnected and the animation of players is kinda lag or not synchronizing towards ...
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I can not proceed to my room menu using photon in unity when i use PhotonNetwork.JoinRoom()
I have a TextMeshProUGUI called EnterRoomName and I am trying to enter the name of the room that I'm supposed to enter, but it's not working.
This is my function:
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Overridden movement function doesn't work
I moved from C to C# so I am a novice in Object Oriented Programming. I wanted to implement OOP in my character movement, but it didn't work the way I expected.
My character is instantiated when the ...
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Photon2 billboards take a long time to face the camera
I'm using PUN2 and trying to use nametag billboards for my players, but they are not facing forward correctly and I have to wait more than 20 seconds to make the name tag of player return to facing ...
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How to load additive scenes to the master client, per player, in unity using photon?
I have already successfully created a multiplayer scene where multiple users can join, however there are some issues like unity not allowing multiple sound listeners per scene. In order to alleviate ...
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Photon Realtime, StripKeysWithNullValues cause heavy GC Alloc
In our current project, we use Photon room properties to sync entities. and i noticed some heavy GC Allocs while deep profiling the game and it always ends down to this method.
Have anyone faced this ...
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Getting user id from one scene then to the next scene
I'm new to multiplayer and photon so pardon me if this question is somewhat frequent.
I have successfully set up my project to start from a main menu - waiting room - actual gameplay scene.
However I ...
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Cost of Unity Local Multiplayer VS Unity Online Multiplayer
I know that making multiplayer games in Unity costs money because of the servers that are used in connecting the players. So basically its free upto 20 CCU and then it increases as per the CCU. Its ...
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Could use some help figuring out bouncy physics material in this PhotonEngine game
So I'm trying to prototype a primitive 1v1 fighting game where the goal is to push the opponent off of the platform rather than actually fight. This is working great in a local multiplayer setup using ...
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Unity network player synchronization issues with HingeJoint(s)
I have a vehicle with custom wheels which are connected to it by the HingeJoint components. Everything works perfectly when using this car in single-player mode. Wheels are actually as ...
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Photon2 Unity2D How to send float with RPC
I have big problem in my code .. I want to spawn obstacle exactly on the same position as on the server is spawned so I made rpc Method and tried to pass random variable of float , but when i run the ...
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Photon-Unity Instantiation not working
I use Unity and Photon for the multiplayer. I Instantiate my gameObjects using this method :
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How to make an authoritative multiplayer game deterministic for all clients? [closed]
I'm starting to create a multiplayer online game, with an authoritative server. As it is, the clients send inputs to the server which do the simulation and then send back to clients the updated state. ...
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Unity Photon multiplayer :: check distance between two players
How to get distance between two player in a photon multiplayer game. Condition is both the player is moving.
I have tried something like this, in my player control script:
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In Photon, What happens networked GameObject's ownership when master client disconnects?
I'm creating multiplayer game with Photon. When player disconnects, especially master client does, every GameObject instantiated from Master client is gone, so I can prevent with this:
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Photon disconnected without any error/warning message
I'm making online game with Photon and Unity. It was working fine, but suddenly players are disconnected without any warning or errors.
It just happens sometimes fast, sometimes slow, but always ...
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synchronized transform is always 0,0,0 in Photon unity
I'm making a simple zombie co-op game with Unity and Photon and have problem with sync enemy transform.
First, I need to explain my idea of chasing enemy AI. Enemies are using NavMeshAgent to finding ...
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How can I get fastest region server in Photon C++ Client API?
I am facing problem with my online multiplayer board game. It takes long time to create and join room. Also sometimes other player doesn't get the data. After searching all over the Photon C++ code I ...
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InvalidCastException when instantiating a prefab on the network using Photon
As stated in the title, I get this error when I try to instantiate a game object using Photon:
InvalidCastException: Cannot cast from source type to destination type.
NetworkingPeer.DoInstantiate (...
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Best way to connect and save data in an online Android game [closed]
I'm new here, I'm in need of a help as it would be the most ideal way to proceed with my project.
The project is very simple, a basic online rpg for android in specific (in the future can be migrated ...
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Synchronization between server's value and the one showed in a stat bar (health, stamina, mana...)
I am trying to implement a stamina system for my mmo. In few words, I computed everything on the server that then notifies the client. On the client I have a stamina bar that shows the stamina amount. ...
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Unity3D and Photon Networking RPG
Good time of the day.
My question might sound stupid, due to the knowledge you might have, but here it is.
I've purchased Diablo 3 a long time ago and been enjoying it since then. Since many of my ...
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How to share some elements of array with different players on Photon in the same Room? Unity3d
I want to assign cards to different players in the room. I've a Class "Cards" that contains an array of 52 cards like this: "2_of_spades","3_of_spades"....... and so on. All i want is to assign random ...
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Server logic on client side?
I am very confused by the PUN implementation of the Photon networking engine. It looks like I don't have to write a separate server so I'm very curious how this works. I have done quite some KryoNet ...
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Photon Unity Network with Socket IO Ambiguities
When trying to use Socket.IO along with PUN I get multiple errors similar to the one below:
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Unity3D: Photon syncing physics events
I'm making a billiard game and I wanna implement multiplayer in it. Since updating the movement in every frame is inefficient and laggy, I thought I could remake the events in game happen in all ...
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Not able to connect to Photon(PUN).photon unity networking error
I'm new to photon Networking. My game was working great suddenly this is appearing
Cannot send messages when not connected. Either connect to Photon OR use offline mode! UnityEngine.Debug:LogError(...
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What's wrong with my food generating code?
This script is intended to produce amount of (food) objects for the players over the network. What should happen is that when a player eats one food, another food object gets created in another random ...
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How to manage this problem in a multiplayer client-server game with Photon ?
Good day.
I'm developing my first simple game, a racing car, using Unity and Photon.
In my game there are a function that generate random Bonus on random position each (for instance) 5 seconds.
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What i'm missing in this multiplayer Unity / photon code?
i'm having some troubles in my first, simple, multiplayer racing game, using Photon and Unity.
Following classic photon tutorial i've written the code below, but, it won't work properly.
In ...
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How to sync new object (weapons/bullet) in a multiplayer photon game ?
I'm using Photon to develop a multiplayer game.
I would like to know the best way to synchronize "weapons" bullets object between network players.
Thanks
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