Server side enemies?

Hi there,

I hope someone can help me out with this. I am making a little multiplayer rpg with a dedicated server. Players move along with a navmesh agent and a point and click system. I only want to use Unity networking.

Problem is I want to make server side enemies, but how does my server know where enemies can walk and where not?
Is it possible to share the navmesh of every scene with the server so the server can use it for navigation? Any other possibilities?

Thanks in advance!

 

If you are using Unity Networking the server knows everything (since it's running within the engine), so you only need to send their information to the clients.

PS. If I remember correctly, authoritative servers are not possible with Unity's built-in network system. You may have to build your own server/client stuff using sockets or use a third party library.

 

I don't use the networking sync functions... Only RPC calls since it's better to keep the network load low...

 

Even using RPCs it's does not work (unless they fixed it, which I would be surprised). The clients can still send RPCs to other clients. But I need confirmation on that, since I haven't used the built-in networking in a long time.

The uLink follows the same paradigm and syntax as Unity's built-in system, but works properly and it's way more capable (it's paid, but only after you ship the game).

 

What do you mean it does not work? Whats wrong with RPC?

And do you know if it is possible to share 1 navmesh between 2 projects? client/server

 

There is no "sharing" if you are creating a authoritative server. The pathfinder only needs to run on the server or you will see some serious desync (without proper treatment, which can be troublesome).

If you want to have navmesh on both (client and server), just create two scenes with the same geometry, occlusion data and navmesh but one scene with objects/scripts specific to the client and the other one with objects/scripts specific to the server. But if you don't want two scenes, then everything must be handled by a object/script that will instantiate/setup the necessary stuff during runtime.

RPCs on the unity built-in system are (or were) not "safe" to create authoritative servers.