Headless Game Server

I've seen some mention of the ability to run a game server in headless mode on Mac. Does anybody know how to do this?

 

Use rakknet natively outside of Unity is one way. Other than that, I have not made an independent server (headless) with Unity yet. Although with Unity's great GUI system, you could make a scene that has a GUI for the server and set it to start up with the Mac starts.

 

Does the Unity network api map to the raknet api?
I am wondering if it is possible without a lot of work to create a raknet server that implements the communication protocol between Unity GameServers and Clients.

 

Its the same protocol and the same calls.
They will chatter.

 

Nice!

Thanks

 

Welcome

 

I gave this a try...but when I do a Connect() from my client:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. void Start ()
3. {
4. string sHost = "127.0.0.1";
5. int sPort = 12345;
6.  
7. print( Network.Connect(sHost, sPort) );
8.  
9. }

The master server does not know what to do with the message type:

MasterServer: Unknown ID 75 from 127.0.0.1:49373

Which is expected...anything over 70 in that enum is user(Unity in this case) defined. However, I don't know what the format of the data in that message, or any of the other messages that will be generated by state synchronization or RPC calls are.

Raknet doesn't know what to do with these, but I could write something to parse/serialize them if I knew the format. Is this available anywhere?

 

Your port call from the client to the server doesn't seem to be matching. I have asked for the version of RakNet used by Unity, no response yet, hopefully someone will answer my question today so I can write you up a good example. From sub version to sub version from v3.0 up to current v3.x (currently 3.5) data information changed and wasn't backward compatible. Like I said though, no one has responded to my thread with a simple version info yet. Sorry for the delay on the help. My code is based on a different version obviously than Unity's self implementation (which hasn't exposed all protocols yet either nor all functionality that RakNet has)

 

Maybe we should email support...they don't always look in here.

 

I've sent in an email to support from my gmail account.
I'll let you know when I hear something back.

 

I also wanted to point out that as of 1.5

So if you have pro maybe thats a option.

Bill

 

Aha! Thank you!

 

Could you please give me a link where I can read about that batch mode in unity?

 

I actually could not find it documented any where, but I knew I remembered seeing such a thing so I searched the release notes and found in the 1.5 release notes, on this page. http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-1.5

It should probably be noted that there is no documentation on it and hopefully it will become documented.

Maybe a UT rep could step in with some more info on it?

Bill

 

After a search I was able to find this thread as well.
http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=3424&highlight=batchmode

Bill

 

Thanks a lot for links. Unfortunately seems that this feature is deprecated or something - I've tried it but unity starts in its normal mode.

 

I think that kinda works...I can execute from the command line, no gui comes up, and I get no errors, but the process terminates immediately.

Do I need to set up some kind of loop to keep it running?