Resolved How to optimize transform sync?

Hi Aduci,

The NetworkTransform component allows you to configure which axes are synchronized. For example, if your RTS game has every unit at the same Y position, you can toggle off synchronization of the Y position axis, as well as the X and Z rotation axes and the scale. This will reduce your bandwidth usage per tick per unit. You can also increase the thresholds to reduce the frequency of updates to the NetworkTransform and let the interpolation do the rest of the work, but it will reduce the accuracy and responsiveness of the replicated transform. You could also decide to reduce the NetworkManager's tick rate. The same drawbacks appear here as with the threshold increases though, so you would have to do some testing to choose a value that fits your project.

NetworkTransform sadly does not offer compression features, as it fell out of scope for small-scale coop. You can however create a custom implementation that uses some optimization techniques. For example, you can use quantization to encode your values into bits/bytes and decode them when receiving the updates. For example, if you know that position values will always be between 0 and 1000 and do not care about accuracy beyond 0.1, you can multiply each value by 10 to get an integer between 0 and 10000, then encode this in bits directly. You would then only need 14 bits per axis instead of a full float.