Third Party What is Photon Offline Mode?

Hello!

The documentation of Photon says that offline mode is a feature that allows you to re-use your multiplayer code into single player game mode as well.

So what does this mean? Does it mean that multiplayer mode can change into singleplayer mode , or the multiplayer game mode has single player game functions when the player plays offline?

Please explain what offline mode is.

Thank you!

 

It's a flag you can set which enables you to play without going online but still use 99% of the same code that you would if you were playing it networked.

Basically, it saves you a lot of time if you want to implement a single player mode for your networked game or if you want your game to be playable without an available internet connection.

 

The offline mode allows you to use the same (or very similar) workflow to "join" a game and arrive in a "room", no matter if you're online or offline.
As @Munchy2007 says, it may be a time saver when you want to support multiplayer and singleplayer in one game. You just enable offline mode and you can use the same workflow to "create a room" and play (with 0 other players).

Here's a doc for more details:
https://doc.photonengine.com/en-us/pun/current/gameplay/offlinemode

 

It also allows you to use PUN RPCs and other stuff when offline. Probably, calling RPCs would become like calling functions without needing to change the RPC calling code and such other changes that allow using the same code but that doesn't mean everything would work as expected so it's better to give a check for all features.

 

For me, one of the more useful aspects of single player mode is that it allows me to attach a debugger and use it to single step through sections of code without it causing the game to disconnect.

 

I'm in a GameJam and used Photon to make my game multiplayer but we now think about implementing a local multi how can i use photon offline to Localy add player and play with them?

 

You can't have offline/lan only multiplayer with Photon.

The offline mode allows you to play single player offline without having to change any of the multiplayer code.

 

Will PhotonNetwork.OfflineMode be any quicker do you think?

 

What do you mean by quicker? It will have less latency (0) since it's a local simulation only.

 

yeh, I mean will it use less cpu time doing the rpcs etc

 

On average, it will use a little less CPU time, yes. There won't be re-simulations caused by loss or variable lag.