UNET Join game without Hamachi

Hi All,

I was wondering if you'd be able to help me set up my game to allow friends to join. At the moment, I have a basic character controller and capsule as the player that moves around. He can shoot projectiles at another player, and kill him.

This all works on localhost and when I am playing with myself. However, when I try to change the localhost name to my IP address, no one can connect to me; I can't even connect to myself - none of the buttons work anymore.

I've portforwarded all the correct ports. My friends can connect to a similar game on the old Networking so I know the ports are open.

Any idea how to resolve this?

 

Can you take a screenshot of your editor with your NetworkManager GUI?

 

In-Game or in the editor?

 

editor

 

This is it as localhost.

 

Easy solution :
Try changing localhost for your local ip (192.168.1.12 something like that).

Probably a better idea in the long run :

You can also get the NetworkManager to automagically pick the right ip with this piece of code.

Code (CSharp):

1.     private IPAddress LocalIPAddress()
2.     {
3.         if (!System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface.GetIsNetworkAvailable())
4.         {
5.             return null;
6.         }
7.  
8.         IPHostEntry host = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName());
9.  
10.         return host
11.             .AddressList
12.             .FirstOrDefault(ip => ip.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork);
13.     }
14.  
15.    void Start(){
16.        networkAddress = LocalIPAddress().ToString();
17.    }

For this to work you have to extend the default NetworkManager

Code (CSharp):

1. public class YourNetworkManagerName : NetworkManager

You also need to import some libs

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Net;
2. using System.Linq;
3. using System.Net.Sockets;

 

Could you explain how this works to allow my friends to join me without hamachi please? I don't understand the code.

Also, for expanding the default Network Manager. Should I create a new script for this and include the finding the IP address there with the Network Manager as the base object?

 

In this case you can simply change the ip inside the default network manager. Put your local ip in place of localhost.

 

yeah you can make it i am still working on my own game you can private message my if you want !!!

you need to make a database white xampp or wamp im using wamp because i am liking it more you need to have a dns i am using no - ip now and i have fixed my own script