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Yes, check out my latest template/videos for my most current implementation. It’s 3d but the networking uses Netfox for lag compensation.

This doesn’t as it stands, I think you’re looking for lag compensation. I’ve done a few videos on that using Netfox, check out my lastest ones: RewindableStateMachine works! | Godot Multiplayer + Netfox th-cam.com/video/81TtftbHvbI/w-d-xo.html

In my experience it does support it, the only time Netfox currently would not work is in a mesh style setup, so as long as you have a single authority in one of the peers, it should work.

@BatteryAcidDev Thank you! I'll play around with Netfox :)

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Thanks for sharing your process! I’m not 100% sure why that’s happening, but I found that if you remove the scene file, .tscn, from LFS tracking it also resolves it.

Good to hear! I haven’t really covered that for Godot, but I plan on making some on login and saving data soon. Is this going to be Async as in turns? Let me know how your game plays so I can weigh in more

​@@BatteryAcidDev it's just a very simple card game. It deals a hand of cards at the start, the player draws a card, plays a card, discards a card, and the turn ends. I am completely new to networking of any kind so I'd like to keep it as basic as possible. I ideally don't want to deal with lobbies or logins or any of that stuff if possible, but I'm not sure how else I would do it. I hope this helps. Thanks for the reply!

Try this one: th-cam.com/video/V4a_J38XdHk/w-d-xo.html

Thanks for the kind words!

Thanks a ton! I appreciate the support!! ❤️

Try using get_current_scene

@@BatteryAcidDev Thank you so much, it works now!

Glad it helped!!

Thanks I appreciate the encouragement, and that’s the plan, hopefully I can get back to making more of those over the next month or so!

Thanks for watching!! Let me know if there's anything else you're interested in seeing

Yes it does! I’m excited to make some more progress on this template and then on to the game…

So I’ve actually implemented jump using both over a few variations, but haven’t really landed on a favorite yet. Jump can also be split up into jump_up, fall, and land, which I’ve also tried with some success. In my latest 3D Template I’m using the synch route through Netfox’a lag compensation with rollback but it’s still early in development

LFG!!

I think this was an authoritative agnostic clip, meaning it was meant to generically define how a network connection works to communicate actions in the context of a multiplayer game. What you are describing sounds more like "lag compensation", which can be solved through various approaches. Generally, you'd have some authoritative peer (server or host in p2p) where the source of truth for all gameplay is calculated, then synchronized with clients through some reconciliation algorithm. Client authority can vary, from just inputs to full control over the player, where in the latter case you wouldn't necessarily need lag compensation as your just telling everyone "I'm moving here" and don't really need to fake it at that point - not to be confused with wall collision detection with corrective actions on the server-side, which is another thing... If you're giving authority over just inputs, then yea, you'd have some "client-side prediction" based on inputs, that would be reconciled after the true data is synched from the server.

Ok, figured out the issue finally. I missed the step where you add the Player scene to the Auto Spawn List property in the Player Spawner.

Glad you got it! Let Me know if you run into any other issues, discord is always open too!

Sounds like you’ve got a decent plan!

Thanks! Yea I think you have to have some authority to keep track of everything going on, some source of truth, right? Otherwise everyone would be playing within their own reality where nothing would line up... sounds like a good idea!! In all seriousness, in the case where there was a P2P setup where one of the players was the host (authority), and you wanted to "hide" another player's actions or whatever, there are ways to show that visibility change in game, but ultimately, the host would have ALL the data, and could potentially be used as an advantage... so I guess you'd have to trust your host.

@@BatteryAcidDev Thanks for the elaboration! By the way, really loving your tutorials so far. Right after I had that question for you I realized that I would have to let the host be the source of truth and I discovered that SetVisibilityFor seems to do well for clients but disabling objects for the host had to be done with the render visibility. To give you some context, I have developed a multi world system where multiple worlds can be spawned on top of each other. When I got the visibility solution I quickly realized that I also need to use seperate World2Ds in order to hide physics calculations from one world to another. Hence using SubViewportContainers did the trick and now I have a fully functional multiworld system where every client can play in the world he is being located, same for the host where I just despawned the gamecharacter from one world and placed it in to another! Again... your tutorials helped me create this so I want to leave a big thank you, you did a wonderful job here!

@@BatteryAcidDev Thanks for the elaboration! I totally agree, that was my thought too that some source needs to be point of truth where everything needs to run. So I found that the host (which acts as the server) had to be able to see everything simultaneously even if the host player wasn't directly impacted by it. So when I wrote this question I was working on a multi world system where every player (including the host) could be in another world, or they could be in the same world and with that I had to find a way to set the visibility off for certain clients where I thought godot would handle the host's visibility by just turning off the renderer. To my surprise that wasn't the case! So what I did next was I just disabled the rendering on the host for the world he was not in... so every other client could still be in his own world while the host was in another... then again quickly realized that I needed a way to seperate the physics calculations for N* nodes that were in different worlds! That's where SubViewportContainers came in handy and I was able to split the worlds in to their different spaces so that no world could impact the other even if the objects were overlapping in their coordinates! This way I am able now to build as many worlds that I need and as much as the computer's resources can carry the performance! And with no surprise: This approach even works better when running --headless! So I am able now to build infinite independent worlds which are also multiplayer supported! And I can't wait to further carry on with my little dream project! A lot of the times I was stuck with the first steps by setting up the pre-requisites and with this project I finally came to the point where I have to worry more about the artistic aspect of things rather than having to figure out how to get the core mechanics up and running! So that's a huge milestone! Again thank you very very much sensei! Your videos helped me very much along the way. I left you something on the way (I think it was another video lol). Still your content is very much appreciated 🙏🏻

Happy to hear !

I think so, I mean, it's a home grown implementation that can be built to scale. The immediate code base may not support exactly what you are aiming for, but should be able to be grown into whatever you're looking to do. Think of this as more of a starting point.

Nice! Glad to hear it was helpful!

I just posted a short that captures this explanation! Thanks for the inspiration! th-cam.com/users/shortsLeWdV4scUqo

Haha I think you got it, the arrow was added because the frame jumped, and I wanted to make sure people see the line of code I just added, nothing more!

Well I think the strategy will be similar, Client prediction with server reconciliation, but maybe Netfox’s implementation isn’t the best fit for that. You may have to roll your own using lower level APIs. I don’t have any resources right now. I think one of my Discord members wrote their own, maybe drop by!

Yea sounds like a good fit, although I haven’t played with that yet, I would consider that a solid starting point to try!

You're welcome!

Thanks! Yea I think it is similar, with this you can host Noray yourself or use theirs

I appreciate that, thank you!

Ok what OS do you have? Yea you provide your full path to the key. Also, I think that “.” Should be right next to the slash, and means you’re starting the path from your current folder.

Windows, but I figured it out I put the .pem file into my user instead of into a folder on my internal drive after I did that all the paths worked

@isaiah3613 nice! Glad you got it!

Nice! Yea have fun with it!!

Hmm, if it’s the same thing you’re spawning, I guess you could keep it at the main scene level. I wonder if you’ll run into issues trying to sort out the map visibility options for whatever you’re spawning. I would try it out and see if it works, otherwise you can refactor to a per-map approach.

​@@BatteryAcidDev ok, also can I use multiple nodes for the multiplayer spawner. I want the players to be distant from one another

I’m not sure if you can switch nodes during game play on the spawner 🤔check the docs, or perform some experiments

Awesome! Happy it helped!!

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Well done!! 👍