[Coming Soon] PlyGame Multiplayer Starter Kit

PlyGame Multiplayer Blox

This package includes various components that are implemented into plyBlox and allow synchronization between clients using Photon Unity Networking. Prior experience with Photon is highly recommended. It consist of plyBlox Events which are called by Photon when work needs to be done. A value block for synchronizing when local or network work needs to be done to keep all clients in line. And an action block which does the serialization of data and can be used as a base for all other

Warning this product requires a licensed copy of plyGame and photon to work. Optional you can also use UMA since we have included support for that product also.


serialization.

Value blocks and action blocks are for passing data between clients and setting necessary blocks for those variables in the world. When we read data from an action block, we put that data into a local variable which is object/player specific , independent from other player characters and it's for us to do whatever we want with it on plyblox.

An important method to keep in mind which deals with the origin of the data that is read is PhotonView.is mine. This method returns a boolean which determines whether the data's origin is local or over the network. If it's local(TRUE), then the object is a local object and no data reading is necessary. Vice-versa, if the object is on the network(FALSE), that means we have to read photon data and set local variables for it to include it in the world from our player's point of view.

Two main element of implementing photon into plyblox is the event handler which will recieve photon messages mainly on Photon Initiate and Photon Serialized View(which is what gets called every time someone passes data over the wire regarding positions on the game objects, etc.). Photon initiate itself adds the events to the maineditor.


Additionally, this kit provides support between the plyRPG skill system and photon, by letting us handle the data for buffs, debuffs, actives and passives, including their positions and projectiles over the network and between the clients so that the game world and objects sync up between player characters.

Last but not least, open source avatar creation framework Unity Multipurpose Avatar(UMA) is used for it's flexibility on custom character creation.

The plyBlox component and the PhotonView component are assumed to be on the object. This is required because linking between the two is done at run-time. All components are extensible and easily modified.

• Events
- On Photon Instantiate
- Called when Photon first starts up. Can be used to do some one time initializing
- On Photon Serialize
- Called when Photon request data that must be synced between clients

• Value Block
- PhotonView.isMine
- Used to determine whether local or network work should be done

• Action Block
- Serialize
- Used in conjunction with On Photon Serialize to serialize data that needs to be synced
- Use as a base for serialization of other objects and data

Part 1

Part 2 Full

Part UMA

This thread for now is to see if there is enough interest in making Plygame Co-op Multiplayer to submit this to the asset store.

 

I'd definitely buy this. I'm pretty sure that about 90% of the current plyGame users would agree with me that this would be a perfect addition for the original plyGame kit. You should try to sell it once you've got stuff ready like multiplayer quests, skills and enemy behaviour. You've got my support.

 

"skills and enemy behaviour" are already framed out in these blocks. Those are just synced animations witch we have with the character. Quests do not need to be synced at all. We are putting in Photon chat but since the chat has nothing to do with plygame blocks I suspect nothing will need to be added to this package.

But any other issue we need to add for our game development that has anything to do with photon we will add.
This is however a starter kit, we are not going to make blocks for everyone's games for them.

 

how about Skills via Network?

 

yes we are making that better and also setting up sending all uma data.

 

Our new update and progress. We are almost done with syncing UMA over photon with plyrpg too.

 

love to see this...

what do you think it will cost indie devs?

 

When we are ready to submit it might be around $20 but will raise as we add more blocks/scripts that we will have to make anyway for our game. So far we will start with Plyrpg and UMA.

 

Updated OP.

 

We are finishing the doc's and making a final tutorial video before we submit this at the end of the week.

 

Added full tutorial.

 

looks awesome... let us know when it's live...

 

Ok we are pushing to submit this week.

 

We submitted it to the store so now we will have to wait and see if it's accepted.
You can purchase it from our site if you do not want to wait.

 

Is this project dead? I'm assuming it got rejected for some reason from the asset store since no links and can't find it anywhere. Would love to find something like this out there.

 

Im wondering if this project is still going?

 

You can still buy it from their site (I think), but they decided to go in a different direction so it's not being actively supported any longer.