Physics and Networking

Hi

Is it possible to create a network physics game in a non-authoriative setup - or must all the physics be computed by the server and sent out to the clients as in an authoriative setup?

thanks

 

We have implemented a networked physics solution whereby the client locally solves the physics simulation in a non-deterministic manner. It's quite tricky though, and we're still tweaking it 6 months down the track. If you don't care about accuracy of the simulation across all clients, or are willing to accept snapping from hard syncs, then you could get away with a simple solution.

Best regards
Shaun

 

I thought about this a bit as well.

I thought of making a simple script that adds a networkview that observes nothing to an colliding object on runtime.

Then this colliding object send out and RPC containing all basically the velocitycetor and rotation-velocity (cant say torque here for obvious reasons ). Received RPC then moves this object around on all clients (and server).

When the physicobject then goes to sleep, it would remove netwrokview.

Or something like that