Forge Networking is Released out of BETA

For those of you who do not know what Forge is see this post: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/su...rary-including-windows-universal-apps.286900/

We are looking for more Beta testers! We have a few and are wanting to get a few more in on it and testing it. Hit us up and we would be happy to bring you into the on-request beta! Forge is under heavy development and hopes the initial beta to be short and sweet. The system has a very large road-map so feel free to make any suggestions as well.

 

PM'ed!

 

Good luck!

 

PM'ed!

Sign me up for beta testing.

thanks

 

Beta V3 has been sent out!

 

Glad to see you guys posted in here. This is a great networking library that runs in a Unity instance that you have to check out!

 

Thanks!

We just released Beta V7 and it is blazing fast compared to the previous versions. We are still looking for more Beta testers even though we have a lot of great testers, the more the better! (insert plug here)

 

I don't seem to be receiving any more beta updates

 

Hey! Sorry about that (email errors) someone said it was sending from an unknown sender or something (someone who got it). We'll send you another one tonight

 

Yessiree, very interested. Still need beta testers?

 

Any updates on a built-in socket layer for Unity Basic?

 

Hi there! Sorry I forgot to click on watch for this post! We are actually usually super responsive. No answer since Saturday D:.

This does still need beta testers! All we need from you is an email. You can either send your email in a message or send us an email to support@beardedmangames.com with the subject "Forge Networking Beta". I am not sure I can associate the username to the emails we currently have. Did we already send you a beta? Did a quick search for "Church" and couldn't find it.

 

Currently we have developers (beta testers) working with Good Ol' Sockets and our system without any issues. We are still looking into our own proprietary basic version (for iOS and Android, unity basic sockets are free). Maybe we can work with a third party to provide this as well so that we can focus on features for networking and not have to spend too much time making this other system.

 

Brent,
Thanks for the reply, but I was confused about, "unity basic sockets are free".
What did you mean by that?
Forge on Unity Basic still requires Good Ol' Sockets, yes?
-- Paul

 

Hey! I basically was saying that if you are developing on Unity Basic for Webplayer, Desktop applications (PC, Mac, Linux), or for Windows 8.1 Store, or Windows Phone 8.1. These platforms support sockets. The only platforms that do not support sockets in the space of these are iOS and Android. For iOS and Android you will need Good Ol' Sockets. But if you are developing on any other main platform listed above, then you will be able to use sockets out of the box in Unity Basic.

Reference: http://unity3d.com/unity/licenses

However we are still looking into our own solution or collaborating with a third party when it comes to iOS and Android.

 

Just though I would update this thread to let the watchers know that we officially released our Backend as a Service (BaaS) For Forge this passed weekend. Feel free to check it out!

 

With Forget Networking we still need our own servers right?

 

Yes and no. Eventually we do plan on giving the option for cloud hosting. That means that you will be able to either host yourself or be able to host through us. We are interested in hearing feedback. Are you wanting to host yourself or would you rather us host it? Or both? ;D

 

If you have competitive packages, I'd rather you guys host it + I know I don't have to setup anything.

 

Sounds awesome, then host it we shall. Also, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but our future hosting plans will not have competitive packages. Our pricing will be WAY lower than other systems prices. We plan on charging ONLY for what you use (Bandwidth + CPU) which will always be cheaper than DAU pricing. The problem with DAU pricing is that it becomes outrageously expensive for anyone unfortunate enough to be successful. We do not believe in destroying indie success before it has ever had a chance to make it big. If you have no problem with this then we will be super excited and honored to be a part of your game

 

What can I say? That sounds awesome.

 

PM sended

Sign me up for beta testing.

thanks

 

Awesome! Can't wait to have you up and testing!

 

email sended as PM

 

PM'ed email
Thanks!

 

Awesome! Can't wait to get the access!

 

I have some questions for you?
1 - do you still looking for testers? because im not getting your answear to my email.
2 - forge support unity 5?

 

Hi there! Sorry for the lack of response, we have been quite busy extending the system, dealing with business related things and other studio relations. We are still accepting beta testers and will be going through our email to get up to date on the requests today

Yes, we pushed a build that works in Unity 5 a few days ago when it was released

 

Awsome

 

hey im just strating forge, I imported the lastest version of forge v14 in unity5 and im geting this error.



y tryed to post this in your web site bug report, but it just look like it did not work, sorry for posting here.

 

Hey! So we actually noticed this error. We are tying to figure out what it could be, it seems that Unity is using Cecil on libraries that are imported. If you continue working everything should work fine as normal but we are researching this one.

Thanks!

 

I have more questons:
1- Need forge the unity networks?
2- whats happend when UNET comes out, i mean all unity old networking will be removed?
3- what happend to forge web site bug report? i did try to post the bug there, and i want, but is like it dont work.

 

i cant say very impressive good job Gregory

 

any updates ?

 

Just a quick question.
Is it possible to get this asset compatible with other 3rd party assets such as Realistic FPS Prefab.
We are having some trouble networking that one!

-Thanks

 

Yes, since this is an integrated networking system it should work well with all other systems that you would get for Unity including ones that you make yourself. All that would need to be done is to identify the variables you wish to serialize across the network for these objects. Once you have done that you can just start the replication process. On our site we have some tutorials on how to integrate with existing code

Please let us know if you have any further questions or would like to know more!

 

A couple questions:

1/ We have an app using Photon. The app (Android) is a fast paced, open world shooter/survival theme with lots of players, lots of NPCs and a fair amount of rigidbody physics. Our main issues with Photon is the CCU, messages per second, the peer-to-peer architecture (hacks and cheats), and the concept of ownership and how that works with NPC AI, masterclient and remote players. Another issue is their suggested max 6-8 players per room: we want many more. Do you think the Forge framework would be a good fit here?

2/ Our player base is international with about 600 CCU at the moment, we don't know if that will grow or shrink, but what is involved in getting a working version onto the Forge Cloud, and maintaining it, and is there going to be problems of latency for players for in Asia? (sorry squeezed in a few more questions)

Basically we need to know if rewriting our network code using this technology would provide real advantages for us and our players.

It is really good to see the positive energy that is surrounding this project and we wish you guys the best

 

@MCXX Hello there! I am very sorry for the late reply. For some reason I was not watching this thread.

I think that Forge is a great fit for this kind of project. We have users making games with way more players than 6-8 and there are no CCU limitations. Our architecture is completely authoritative and we still support using the server as a relay as well.

No problem on the questions. Currently the Forge Cloud is still in beta and we are accepting requests. We are still in works with our partners as well so that we will be able to offer a global server base.

Thank you very much for the wishes . We work directly with our users to make sure the system supports the strange things they need or would like to see, we also have a pretty strong community as well We have tons of users from UNET, Photon, and Bolt and the general feeling we get is that they are quite happy with the change. Please let me know if you have any further questions . If nothing else we can add you to our chat system and you can ask some questions to the developers there, what they think and how they feel about the system