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Is RPC Peer-to-peer?

Discussion in 'Multiplayer' started by yoonitee, Aug 12, 2014.

  1. yoonitee

    yoonitee

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    OK say you have a unity instance set up as a server and several clients. You send an RPC message from one client to another

    RPC(string name, NetworkPlayer target, params object[] args)

    and say this was quite a lot of data. Does the data pass through the person who is acting as the server or is there a direct link between the two clients?

    I'm trying to figure out how much load is on the server. Say you wanted to pass 1Mb of data between client A and client B would the 1Mb of data pass to the server and back to client B?

    So to do direct peer-to-peer does one person have to be server?
     
    yoonitee, Aug 12, 2014
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  2. appels

    appels

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    All traffic goes through the server.
     
    appels, Aug 12, 2014
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  3. yoonitee

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    Thought so.

    And I suppose a player can't be a client of two different servers?
     
    yoonitee, Aug 12, 2014
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  4. appels

    appels

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    Nope
     
    appels, Aug 12, 2014
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  5. yoonitee

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    Well that would make my idea for a peer-2-peer network quite difficult then! Maybe uNet will solve this.
     
    yoonitee, Aug 12, 2014
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