Voice Chat with Netcode

I am developing a small platformer for a school project. The requirements are that the game must run on LAN, so we are using Unity's Netcode for Game Objects and that's working perfectly, and also that it must have a voice chat.

I have been trying to find a voice chat that works with Netcode for Game Objects, so far I've only found Dissonance, but since it's a school project I would prefer a free option.

If anyone knows a solution for this I would be very thankful. I am quite new to Unity.

 

Maybe you can try unity vivox. https://unity.com/products/vivox

 

Install Discord. Done.

Seriously, built-in ingame voice chat support has never gained much traction, gamers generally prefer to use a common and global service to do their voice chatting across multiple games and apps or just for having a chat.

 

Photon Voice Chat might work since you can use the free plan and NGO has a Photon transport layer.

 

try googling github, usually find something:
sending bytearrays (unet) https://gist.github.com/insthync/c208f001605c5f3e8b83352837f0457e
https://github.com/adrenak/univoice

 

I agree with CodeSmile. Since it's a school project you'll probably get an A+ for making a decent multiplayer game, even without voice chat, so don't worry If you really need to put one in, you could probably use Vivox. Also what school makes you put a voice chat in a game for homework?

 

I usually buy the license and do it from there, it's much easier than having so much trouble on your head. I understand that it involves spending financial resources but that sure makes up for the nerves you will save.

 

I have the same question, i would like to know if there is a way to:
a) Send and receive video and audio streams (and ofcourse play them)
b) Without a third party solution only unity and the official networking solution

And ofcourse there are extra plugins to make anything out there but it would be poor if it could not be programmed with core unity and when a custom solution is needed plugins tend to help little.

 

Your a) and b) questions only make sense when asked together.
The individual answers are: a) yes but b) no.

a) Any two machines connected via a network can stream audio/video. Theoretically speaking.
b) But you are asking whether Netcode has this streaming built-in, thus the answer is: no.

 

Indeed takiing the question that open there would be no Audio Video platforms if you could not stream it. So add a with Unity3d at the end of a).

I was thinking more along the lines of this: Is Unity able to capture a webcam, i guess it is, but also can it play the stream? I guess thats a bit more tricky, the Videoplayer did not support this last time i looked.
So i guess it could be made with Raw Image and Audio Source?