Questions tagged [synchronization]
A process of maintaining similar game state across players and/or servers, thus giving all players same info about current sutuation on playfield.
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Is it always necessary to synchronize rendering in a game loop?
When writing a game loop from scratch in java for an android game applications, it is very common in many tutorials I have read that the keyword synchronized is used to synchronize update and ...
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Achieving smooth movement curves & correct collision detection with a google app realtime multiplayer game server
I'm an hobbist game developer. I'm trying to make a clone of a game like this: http://superhex.io/ to experiment with multiplayer online.
First of all I'm not sure if there is a better way to ...
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Keep world changes in sync in client/server architecture
Imagine having a big room (4000w x 4000h) which contains players and items (world objects). The room is spatially partitioned in a 10 x 10 grid for collision detection and changes in the viewport of ...
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Eager or lazy loading synchronization
Imagine joining a room with 100 (moving) players and a lot of items and being assigned a random position in the room (read: agar.io).
At the moment I'm eager loading the other players and items and ...
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Implementation client side prediction and linear interpolation
I've been working on an online multiplayer game using a client/server architecture and I have been following both Gabriel Gambetta's as Gaffer On Games's series about Client-Server Game Architecture, ...
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Implementing game synchronization between clients and server
I'm creating a small online multiplayer game where I have multiple thin clients and an authoritative server. Both the client and the server have a fixed game loop.
Now I have a game entity with the ...
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Why is my client's body drifting even after using data from the server, and how do I fix it?
I am trying to use Box2d on nodejs server with libGDX client. What I am trying to apply is authoritative server model so clients are just sending input data to server, server is running simulation and ...
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Multiplayer physics out of sync
So I'm working on this multiplayer platformer game using Phaser, Matter.js, and Colyseus.js.
I have a simple map and player controls set up and now I'm trying to copy my physics simulation on the ...
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NodeJS client gameloop running slightly faster than server gameloop
So I'm working on a real time multiplayer game in NodeJs (Client and Server). Both loops handle the same "physics" (movement at a constant rate) and both are running at 40hz or 40 times per second. I ...
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clock synchronization
Is there something I'm not seeing or there is a flow in this algorithm(which everyone is referring to)
http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html
Assumption 1: When I say a is ...
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Character appearance synchronization in open world multiplayer game
I am working on a multiplayer open world game where you can equip handhelds and armor pieces. In my architecture, there are clients and an authoritative server. Every equipable item is crafted by a ...
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Network limitation in multiplayer game
I have a multiplayer cooperative game (PVE) in where there can be up to 200 enemies at a time (somewhere around that) and I was wondering how devs generally synchronize these? I already have packets ...
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Sync a file across multiple devices
How can a file be synced across multiple devices? I am able to store the data locally using binary serialization, but the user should have the ability to access it on any device at any time.
Is this ...
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The state that is synced when a window is broken in a FPS game
In order to better understand how state syncing works in games, I wanted to pose a specific example. Say you are in a FPS game with multiple players and someone breaks a window in some building. ...
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Spawn network objects in generated map
In my game, the server generates a procedural map, after send generation seed to generate it on the client. The client generates exactly the same map. In the map, I need to synchronize objects with ...
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How can I synchronize state in my Asteroids game with many networked players?
Wondering how state synchronization works in games with lots of players like MMOs. It seems like a hard problem to solve and I am not aware if there are standard solutions. Specifically, synchronizing ...
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Networked physic + quadtree
I have some problem with understanding how to use quadtree to divide physic world (p2.js engine btw.) and synchronize this world with clients.
Here are some informations about my game:
Host & ...
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Sharing data between scaled game servers
I have a multiplayer game with a single huge map. The map is divided into areas. Each area is 50x50 piece of the map. All players can move between each of the areas. There are hundreds of said areas.
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How to reduce server traffic for 100+ multiplayers game?
I'm working on fast-paced multiplayer game which has 100+ players in single session.
To sync entire game state to each player, server should send massive data if I did not any compression:
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How can I handle sharing storage units in multiplayer?
I have recently come across a certain problem in programming my MMORPG: the synchronization of shared storage units.
With shared storage unit I intend something like a "chest" that can be accessed ...
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Real-time MMO: how should authoritative server update client position
I'm trying to build a real-time MMO game. I'm using Phaser for FE and Node.js + socket.io for BE. I have read all the tutorials like http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-side-prediction-server-...
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Data synchronization between master and slave servers
I am looking for a way to synchronize data between master data server (connected to a database) and slave game servers.
The master server should make a decisions about which data should be ...
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How to properly separate render thread from logic thread?
I am not asking about parallelization of physics and so on stuff with parallel_for() like stuff.
I've managed to have separate rendering thread from logic thread, ...
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Should the server calculate the time of a player's input, or trust sent data?
I am curious about the details of lag compensation in games. I have read a lot of articles about it, for example:
Source Engine Multiplayer Networking
Fast-Paced Multiplayer - Gabriel Gambetta
How do ...
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Multiplayer Game - Node.js syncing other players' position
I'm creating a multiplayer platformer game with 4 players in multiple rooms. I've read a lot of articles and researched about client prediction and lag compensations. I think I can somehow manage to ...
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Do you really have to sync Physics over the network?
Let's say you want to create a 2D game where a character can shoot a bullet. You have the same code running on the Client and Server (JavaScript so it's exactly the same code).
If the client and the ...
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Help needed, following Unity multiplayer Health-Bar tutorial. Only working on Server Host instance of the game
was really hoping someone can be good enough to look over my code, I've been trying to fix it for several days. I followed the Unity tutorial which is fairly basic but the bit that confuses me (and ...
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AI Agent realistic leap to a player in a MMO
In the last month I have been struggling with an issue, movement synchronization of a leap of an AI agent in a MMO. I know some theory and basic movement was not a problem with interpolation and stuff,...
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[SyncVar]s in Unity with client authority
I'm making an networked RTS in Unity, and I have a problem with syncing a boolean on a non-player object. I create the object (which is a boat) using ...
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Unity - Manually sync location of players from server to client
I am new to Unity networking. I've set up my scene with NetworkManager and the Player prefab having NetworkIdentity. I originally had my players set up to sync with a NetworkTransform. This worked, ...
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MMO Player Position Update [duplicate]
I have been looking at the development of MMO games for a while and have got stuck up on one thing. Player Movement. If we have an area with 10 players, each player needs to be able to see the ...
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How can I instantiate and sync a LineRenderer in multiplayer network?
I am trying to make a laser that will be visible to all clients in a multiplayer networked game on Unity.
I've tried using a Command Attribute but that hasn't worked. I also found some ideas to use ...
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Do I need to make network game fully deterministic to achieve a non-exploitable MOBA/RTS?
First of all - I know some networking concepts and I coded couple games with GDX/Kryonet/...
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Socketio, nodejs. syncing movement with rigidbodies over the network - unity
I am building a 2d top-down mmo. very lightweight.
I have a master client that determines everythings position, and actions and send this information to all other clients.
Now I have made a great ...
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Parallelism in GPU's rasterization process
Based on this article I understood the base principle inside the Rasterization algorithm:
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Should I sync animations from the server to the client or let the client play its own animations?
For example, if the user presses the "Fire" button which leads to the player character doing some kind of animation, should the client evaluate itself if it can play the animation or wait for a ...
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How to start the game at the same time across two phones?
I am trying to synchronize two devices so that they can start the game at the same time.
The mechanism that I've thought about is that I would use the phones' time and set the intervals at, for ...
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What to replicate in a PvP online action game?
We're developing a 2D PvP online action game. You can think of it like Super Smash Bros. We have a function call tree for characters like below:
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Synchronizing over UDP
I have two apps communicating over UDP. One of the apps is a remote control and the other is a robot.
When the robot has some new data, for example a new sensor ...
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Unity: Editor Window not Syncing
I have four scripts:
Engine has a list of MovementWaypoints.
EngineEditor simply displays a ...
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How to sync a LineRenderer in a multiplayer game?
After a lot of searching online, I have come here as a last resort for my problem.
The question says it all. How to sync a LineRenderer?
One answer I found was to use a ClientRpc. I tried it with no ...
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Get different result on different devices (same resolution) after setVelocity
I'm dying with physics , i've tried to use setVelocity however i got slightly different value from different devices.
I've tested on iPhone 5 (on simulator)
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How to prevent clients from stuttering while keeping the game in sync in multiplayer Pong?
I wrote Pong in multiplayer. The clients all run their own game, but I have an authoritative server which enforces its ball position onto the clients.
The game is in sync and playable, however, there ...
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How to confirm an actor location in a realtime multiplayer game at the exact same time on two devices?
I am trying to figure out how to make a game like Pong in multiplayer. I have two devices that run the same simulation. Now I want to make sure that each of them start at the exact same time and send ...
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Calculate resources real-time. Sockets or not?
I'm currenly developing a game in Javascript. It's a Single Page Application so every change should be pulled from the server without page refresh. I'm currently wondering how I should handle the '...
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Syncing Sprites themselves over a Network
Ok, just found out I can't use [SyncVar] for a sprite gameobject. Furthermore that, [SyncVar] works only on simple values. My question is How would I go about syncing a Sprite over a network?
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Unity 5 Syncvar not working
I have a cube in my scene. I want to change its color and I wanna server and all players to see it in this color. I have attached script on the cube:
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UDP sending important data often - Should I use a reliable send or unreliable with resend?
I'm making a multiplayer RPG. My problem is that I send player data very often (100 ms), that contains:
Position (float x, y, z)
Radius (float angle)
Animation (int16_t id)
And because the package ...
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How to sync animations of 2 different characters in Unity 3D?
I am working on an endless running 3d game. I have 2 characters. One of them is a small kid and another one is a security guard. Both characters and animations are exported as separate FBXs.
The ...
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Android: Synchronizing timers across multiple devices
Im writing a turn-based multiplayer game that implements a chess timer. When the current players turn starts, all devices start timing for the current player, however, as his turn proceeds, the timers ...
