using UnityEngine.Networking dll in your own c# project

hi,

I have made a prototype of my game using the LLAPI, its a simple turnbased game with 5 players max per room.

Can i use the unity networking dll in a .NET Core application? Lets say for example I want to use the Unity Networking DLL in a "asp.net core web api" or console app that I can host on Microsoft Azure and get my game clients to connect to that server. If I cannot do this, use unity networking dll outside of unity, Can I run my server headless (Windows) on Microsoft Azure? How do you even run headless on windows ? Basically I want my game server to be hosted on "azurewebsites.net" and my android clients to connect to this url.

I am trying to make this question descriptive as possible because most of my problems were solved by just browsing this forum and trying out code, If I need to make my question more clear / descriptive, please let me know.

 

You can compile the Networking DLL yourself. Or run headless. Both work. To compile it yourself.
https://bitbucket.org/Unity-Technologies/networking
And to run headless. Just start the program with parameters -nographics and -batchmode

 

Thank you for the reply TwoTen, So if I compile the code myself and just reference the dll in my .net core project, do I just start a Task called Update() and just call that from static Main() ? and all my networking messages will come through to my own Update()? do I not need to pass anything into the method? What if I wanted to add the dll to a web api core project, do I just start another Task from the controller ? what will the api controller take in as a message? Im basically trying to understand how to deploy my unity server to Microsoft Azure.

 

Why would you need a Update method?

 

how else would I get messages from the clients and how would I send messages back to connected clients, My understanding and the examples I followed was to accept messages in the update method using NetworkTransport.Receive which will give me the connectionID I need to work with. I dont think I fully grasp the concept of adding the networking dll to my web api project and getting a unity client to connect and communicate with it.

 

You get a packet, process that and then send the information back. No need for an update method really. But it should all work.

 

ok I am going to try a simple example by adding a reference to the networking dll and I will keep you updated on my progress, Thank you

 

Best of luck.

 

so I worked on using the dll within a .net core console app and I was not successful due to the version of .net core I had installed, so I thought before installing the latest version of core let me try a standard .net console application, I added the dll and I was unsuccessful. I will just use unity projects for now till I have some time to figure out the dll with an external solution, but thank you for your help.

Anyways I have decided to find a cheap vps server and do the following from this article :
https://noobtuts.com/unity/unet-server-hosting

 

Personally I suggest not using .net Core. Just use .net Framework instead and if you need to run on linux. Compile with Mono

 

Not to hijack the thread, but I pulled the code from bitbucket, compiled it, and added the reference to my standalone project, and I am getting SecurityExceptions which appears to be due to attempting to running the lib outside of Unity.

Am I missing something, or are you still unable to use the UnityEngine.Networking library outside of unity?

 

I think the only thing you can actually use is the Server DLL which you can get by asking Aabramachev. I do belive it does not work for linux though.