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Third Party Need help with Photon/Unity

Discussion in 'Multiplayer' started by normalmaps, Oct 21, 2012.

  1. normalmaps

    normalmaps

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    Hello everyone,

    I am very new to networking, and I've recently been looking into photon/unity server. I've created a multiplayer application using the Photon Cloud server, which was succesful. My friend and I could play together on different machines.

    But now I want to switch from Cloud server to a self hosted server.
    And I have a few questions:

    Could anyone tell me how networking using photon works?
    What do I need, in order to get this to work?
    Can anyone explain to me the what steps I need to do? (doesn't have to be detailed)

    Thanks alot, I'm sorry for these questions but I'm still in the newbie land and I can't really find my answers online
     
    normalmaps, Oct 21, 2012
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  2. sandolkakos

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    sandolkakos, Oct 23, 2012
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  3. DLGScript

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    DLGScript, Oct 23, 2012
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  4. sandolkakos

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    Yes, i made this.
    But it's a bit complicated to explain how to do step by step.

    What is the part you have doubts?
     
    sandolkakos, Oct 23, 2012
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  5. normalmaps

    normalmaps

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    Hey man thanks alot!
    Seriously - thanks!

    Do I need to buy anything else except for the Photon License ?
     
    normalmaps, Oct 23, 2012
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  6. CJR-Gaming

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    To begin, you don't even need to buy a license for Photon. The default 20 user and free unlimited 100 user licenses are plenty to begin working with. You can also bounce over to the main site: www.cjrgaming.com to ask questions and post any topics you'd like to see discussed as a tutorial.
     
    CJR-Gaming, Oct 23, 2012
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  7. normalmaps

    normalmaps

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    Hi,

    Cjr - thanks for responding.
    If i follow your tutorials, do I know enough about how to connect my game to my photon server?
    I know about their pricing, but I was wondering if i needed to buy something else with it to make it work,which i assume is not the case...

    Thanks
     
    normalmaps, Oct 23, 2012
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  8. CJR-Gaming

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    Everything I use through my tutorials is free. The first several videos on the Server2Server series is just getting the server code started. After that I open up Unity3d and walk through the code to connect to the server and begin sending and receiving messages. No prior knowledge about Photon is required.
     
    CJR-Gaming, Oct 23, 2012
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