It's nice to see other network engines being featured around! All you see when you search for multiplayer tutorials or understanding the logic behind multiplayer is "oh, just install photon, and add this and that to the player object, and it will do it for you". We need more of these tutorials explaining how it works behind the scenes, and why are things done the way they are... So keep up the good work!
I can't stress how much i suffered with Photon and I've watched ever tutorial out there lol, no one explains anything. I got a Zenva tutorial on Photon for free, and it was garbage.
As someone with experience in software development, that was an absolutely fantastic introduction to game dev networking. The folks developing mirror definitely worked wonders with the naming conventions and the intuitive interfaces, and Dino made and awesome showcase of it's basics. All that's left is to be thankful that this video exists :P
I was gonna say "I wish to see a tut series on how to make a multi-player game with mirror", then I found out you are already making them! Great work, really cool stuff, keep it up!
I was horrified when my school project instructor says me to do an online turn-based strategy game when I was halfway through a single-player version. You explained everything so well that I am not concerned anymore, thanks a lot!
Awesome tutorials! I've been trying to learn about how to make a game that is server authoritative. You explained the differences perfectly. Cheers Dapper!
MLAPI is also another really solid option if you're already using or considering on using Mirror. Basically identical feature set but with better performance. Mirror does have better documentation and a larger community, however. Either option is solid for any game with
I love your tutorials, Nathan. Very thorough and terrific explanations. I also purchased your Unity Multiplayer Udemy course that you co-authored with Rick Davidson. Starting here and then jumping over to that. Great work!
Very good. I am looking forward watching the rest of the series. I am already considering using this for my next small project. That got postponed because of Unity removing Networking from their Engine for a while and still not releasing something stable up to today. So this will be interesting for an increasing number of devs. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Great video, very insightful! Also choosing Pong was a good choice, because I think you touched upon the basic fundamentals of what is happening in the background. Thanks a lot!
Hey! I'm new in development of multiplayer games and I don't want to use Photon because of the free tier its only 20 CCU so I found your tutorial and it's amazing! Thank you! Continue pls!
This is a good demo of the example scene, but the title is a little misleading. I do like that you went over a little bit how they made the example work though. Was a good direction for where to start.
Mirror looks like its much easier than photon. Also checked your steam connection video. You only have to change Transport in network manager to a steam connect instead of telepathy transport... I cant believe its so easy, thanks.
I'm not sure about right now but 2 years ago it still wasn't working (I think because they never recommended using it for multiplayer) github.com/vis2k/Mirror/issues/72
@@CorneliusCornbread Server and Client still need to be on the same "main" scene, however Mirror fully supports Additive scenes, so within the main, clients and server can each load additive content.
Hi, I'm a little late to the party but this was a nice video so thank you. I was wondering if you had any advice in regards to using this to connect online and/or across different devices as opposed to just local. Couldn't quite figure it out myself, I just wanted to send my friend the build and see if we could interact with the game together. Cheers.
Pretty sure you don't have to build the game in order for this to work, you could just open another instance of your project and join from there. (If your scene is large it may take long time to build and test these changes with your live build if you were to make any changes and wanted to see them update right away.
Very Nice, Thank you, Before this day, I knew nothing about making Multiplayers Games, So as a beginner this helped me to understand the basics of how it all works
Thanks for this, but it's missing the most important bit i.e. starting the game itself. Once 2 players are matched, I was expecting a follow-up video to show how to start the PlayFab game instance, is that coming or am I just missing it in the playlist?
I enjoyed your Photon series, then I noticed Photon was not covering my requirements (I'm building up a MMORPG) so I'll go for a full authoritative server, I guess using mirror. Thanks for your videos! Really appreciate it!
do i need to make a NetworkManager per scene? or just with the one at the menu is ok? what happens if i want to have 2 types of players? how do i spawn one type at lobby and the other in game with the same NetworkManager, how can i make it work? thanks your the tutorials!
You'll either need to look into port forwarding (for the host) or to use something like Steam for the transport like in my most recent video ( th-cam.com/video/QlbBC07dqnE/w-d-xo.html )
@@DapperDinoCodingTutorials stupid question, but is port forwarding required for this project? Like if you and your friend wanted to connect on different IP addresses, and you were hosting, would you need to mess around with ports and stuff? I want to make a game but I don't want my players to have to deal with that stuff. I know that it works fine on localhost because it's LAN
@@sauerklout2496 Maybe check into Nat punch through. Default transport is Telepathy Transport, but if you add component and type transport you can see some others. Not sure what ones offer nat punch through but google might know.
Hello Dapper Dino :-) Thanks for the tutorial. As you said at the beginning the video, if you could do a video about > Dedicated servers < it would be awesome. P2p networking is already so much covered on TH-cam. And is good for testing on a little scale but maybe not so "realistic" as soon as you want to release/publish a Game. By the way thanks for your content about DOT as well, I like the examples you take. Because these are actual examples for games and not only to show-off that DOT/ECS can handle 100 000 entities that just walk in one direction but you offer actual core game mechanics :-) Cheers,
I'm really glad that you're enjoying the content and yes I will be showing how to set up a dedicated server at some point but for right now I'll just stick to what we have (which btw isn't P2P it's still Client-Server but the host machine is a client and a server
I know this is an old comment but in case anyone else stumbles across this - Mirror is open source and licensed under the MIT license, meaning it can be used, modified and distributed in any project, personal or commercial, without fees or attribution. So, no license/purchase needed
I know im being the dumb one here but how do you allow someone to connect to the server from another computer? Do we enter the ip address or is there some other listening code? I saw the port thing after pressing the client/server button but Im not sure what im doing there....Networking knowledge is still new to me and im easing my way in.
I have tried the example scene of the tanks and I see a little delay between the cannon rotation and the projectile firing, would you know how to fix this problem?. Thanks.
Ive tried it, doesnt seem to work but i just wanted to double check. Can a friend and i download Hamachi and connect through to each other from different wifi? Just like i do with LAN Minecraft? Thanks :)
Help! I cant get mirror working across devices, it will only work on the same device opened up twice. Cant get it working across different devices please help.
Hey i am beginner i want to make multiplayer game next year . IDK what to choose UE4 or Unity mirror , a lot of people say mirror is very buggy and won t work for MMO with collision ,stats , e.t.c
Hello Dapper Dino! I don't have much experience with visual studio, so I have a question regarding that. How are you able to see the references and implementations of the functions inside the base NetworkManager class? I'm using Visual Studio Code, but I can't access none of that information. If I hover my mouse over the function, nothing appears. This might be a silly noob question, but could you help me out?
Is there any tutorial on how to integrate a mirror on a real vps or cloud? I think to develop multiplayer android game, so I'm little bit confused about all game architecture. Any suggestion?
How can i encrease the amount of people that can conect to server, i did sone research and saw that there is a 600 player limit, how can i encrase it
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So Mirror is a different thing from Unity HLAPI and LLAPI and the new Network-transport Layer? Which is the best? I know it is a relative term and depends on what you are making, but I always try to use the default code and avoid 3rd party code as it tends to change or lose support. Would you make a video on the new Network-transport Layer, please?
It's nice to see other network engines being featured around! All you see when you search for multiplayer tutorials or understanding the logic behind multiplayer is "oh, just install photon, and add this and that to the player object, and it will do it for you". We need more of these tutorials explaining how it works behind the scenes, and why are things done the way they are... So keep up the good work!
Thanks :) Glad you're enjoying it
@@DapperDinoCodingTutorials hi dapper
I can't stress how much i suffered with Photon and I've watched ever tutorial out there lol, no one explains anything. I got a Zenva tutorial on Photon for free, and it was garbage.
As someone with experience in software development, that was an absolutely fantastic introduction to game dev networking. The folks developing mirror definitely worked wonders with the naming conventions and the intuitive interfaces, and Dino made and awesome showcase of it's basics. All that's left is to be thankful that this video exists :P
Thanks for the kind words!
I like this passive agressive "okay" at almost every sentence.
ok
@@ThunderStormFortnite ok.
If that's your idea of passive aggressive, you have never dealt with passive aggression :) OK?
@@bob-xm7ny ok.
Really Great Work In Multiplayer Games Industry and now MLAPI is even out there this guy is a god send Multiplayer Game making Teacher.
I was gonna say "I wish to see a tut series on how to make a multi-player game with mirror", then I found out you are already making them! Great work, really cool stuff, keep it up!
explaining it as a minecraft server made it so much more easy to get
It's perfect! Thank you so much, I did not even know about the existence of this framework. I will be glad to see more lessons on it!
I'm happy to see that you're looking forward to more videos on this topic :)
I didn’t know about it either and want to implement it in a platformer
Me too
Same!
Now that UNet is dead, you should know.
More of Mirror please!
Yes yes yes!
@@DapperDinoCodingTutorials Is that a JoJo reference?
@@shadowkoala5452 Is ThAt A jOjO RefErEnCe?
I was horrified when my school project instructor says me to do an online turn-based strategy game when I was halfway through a single-player version. You explained everything so well that I am not concerned anymore, thanks a lot!
I was looking for video like this for hours. Thank you
01:03 - Setting up Mirror
04:41 - Sample Project
06:45 - Explaining Sample Code
Awesome, I've been waiting for some good Mirror tutorials and you're the best person to cover the subject. 👍
Glad you're happy with the content, thanks as always for the help over on Patreon :)
never missed your latest videos
Awesome tutorials! I've been trying to learn about how to make a game that is server authoritative. You explained the differences perfectly. Cheers Dapper!
Thank You brother. Good job, appreciate. Love from Poland.
Thanks man your code explaining is excellent and the informations u mentioned is very useful 💜
Thanks brother this video is still revelent in 2024. It help me understand basics a lot. Thanks agan.
MLAPI is also another really solid option if you're already using or considering on using Mirror. Basically identical feature set but with better performance. Mirror does have better documentation and a larger community, however. Either option is solid for any game with
I love your tutorials, Nathan. Very thorough and terrific explanations. I also purchased your Unity Multiplayer Udemy course that you co-authored with Rick Davidson. Starting here and then jumping over to that. Great work!
Very good. I am looking forward watching the rest of the series. I am already considering using this for my next small project. That got postponed because of Unity removing Networking from their Engine for a while and still not releasing something stable up to today. So this will be interesting for an increasing number of devs.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
You saved my game dude you are a literal saviour I subscribed just make more tutorials
Great video, very insightful! Also choosing Pong was a good choice, because I think you touched upon the basic fundamentals of what is happening in the background. Thanks a lot!
Nice to see another tutorial on other Unity networking framework. Currently still using PUN2 but this looks interesting. Thanks for the tutorial!
Hey! I'm new in development of multiplayer games and I don't want to use Photon because of the free tier its only 20 CCU so I found your tutorial and it's amazing! Thank you! Continue pls!
thank you so much for doing this and, after looking at your channel, thank you for just existing in general.
This is a good demo of the example scene, but the title is a little misleading. I do like that you went over a little bit how they made the example work though. Was a good direction for where to start.
It was more of a taster for the tutorials that followed :)
Mirror looks like its much easier than photon. Also checked your steam connection video. You only have to change Transport in network manager to a steam connect instead of telepathy transport... I cant believe its so easy, thanks.
Great video! Already done a lot to demystify Mirror for me here. I look forward to watching more of your videos on this topic!
Nice! waiting for more about Mirror 🤟🏼
I'll be creating plenty of tutorials, don't you worry!
I love how he casually skips over the Russian guys name when he's thanking his patrons
This is bad.
Ilia Gavrilov, for the next time
in theory, predictable objects such as a ball should only have to send updates when a player interacts with them
if you're playing pong yea lmao.
Thanks too there're not so many tutorials about mirror on Utube
Quick question: has Mirror solved the scene management issues from UNET? In UNET you could only have 1 online scene, which was pretty annoying.
I'm not sure about right now but 2 years ago it still wasn't working (I think because they never recommended using it for multiplayer) github.com/vis2k/Mirror/issues/72
@@DapperDinoCodingTutorials Maybe worth doing a video on then?
@@CorneliusCornbread Server and Client still need to be on the same "main" scene, however Mirror fully supports Additive scenes, so within the main, clients and server can each load additive content.
Hi, I'm a little late to the party but this was a nice video so thank you. I was wondering if you had any advice in regards to using this to connect online and/or across different devices as opposed to just local. Couldn't quite figure it out myself, I just wanted to send my friend the build and see if we could interact with the game together. Cheers.
i cnat remeber the last time i followed a tutorial and everything worked on the first try without me having to find a way around everything
Could you post sequential links to videos in this series please?
You have so many videos, they are hard to track. Very good BTW!
Nice and simple intro, thank you DD!
Recently I found a new book about Mirror MMO programming at mmoprogramming.com, it seems that Mirror still is the best networking solution so far!
you're the goat thank you for helping me understand all this
This is great man I love it
Ive allways been wanting to jump into this sort of stuff
Edit: also did anyone else try to click the discord alert
Pretty sure you don't have to build the game in order for this to work, you could just open another instance of your project and join from there. (If your scene is large it may take long time to build and test these changes with your live build if you were to make any changes and wanted to see them update right away.
Thanks to you, Mirror seems to be very approachable. Fantastic job!
Great content! Really excited about mirror.
Waiting to see tutorial on how to create multiple rooms on a server.
I'm sure I'll get to that at some point to show how to have 1 server for all clients to connect to, but for now I'll stick to one match per server
Dapper dino my saviour
Very Nice, Thank you, Before this day, I knew nothing about making Multiplayers Games, So as a beginner this helped me to understand the basics of how it all works
Glad I could help!
This is a very nice introduction to mirror! Also did anyone else accidentally push the ball out of bounds on the pong game? Lol
Thanks for this, but it's missing the most important bit i.e. starting the game itself. Once 2 players are matched, I was expecting a follow-up video to show how to start the PlayFab game instance, is that coming or am I just missing it in the playlist?
This looks really good cant wait to check out more
Your Undemy course covers how to make a dedicated mirror server? Or just host player and client player?
Thanks! Me and my friends are working on a game and this helped us out so much!
Can we connect two phones with wifi..... Or... Hotspot...?
Thank you SO much for making this playlist. I was looking for a way to make a authoritative server MP game!
How do you make your own menu? I’m so confused as to where those buttons are coming from?
The buttons are coming from NetworkMangerHUD.
What are the pros and cons of Mirror vs Photon?
thanks man! will love this series
Can you show something on peer to peer networking, I want to play around with that, but theres not much documentation out there on it.
I enjoyed your Photon series, then I noticed Photon was not covering my requirements (I'm building up a MMORPG) so I'll go for a full authoritative server, I guess using mirror. Thanks for your videos! Really appreciate it!
Hi. How does that work? I want something 100 players can just jump in and play. Is there a server solution for this?
Its HLAPI if you want control data by yourself check LLAPI frameworks like LiteNetLib. Its opensource too
Yup there are quite a few alternatives but I think I went with the best choice for me and for making into tutorials
do i need to make a NetworkManager per scene? or just with the one at the menu is ok? what happens if i want to have 2 types of players? how do i spawn one type at lobby and the other in game with the same NetworkManager, how can i make it work? thanks your the tutorials!
Dino, your voice is so soothing, I'm glad i found you. (Tbh the visible task bar is OO)
can i get the project files? because if i import the mirror package, there will be 462 error
github.com/DapperDino/Mirror-Multiplayer-Tutorials
HELLO! As I understand it, the mirror is only for a local connection? Have you tried connecting to other computers?
does this work for mobile?
i tried to play from two different networks, using the host's public ip instead of "localhost" but it doesn't work ... what else should i do?
You'll either need to look into port forwarding (for the host) or to use something like Steam for the transport like in my most recent video ( th-cam.com/video/QlbBC07dqnE/w-d-xo.html )
i wish you knew how much you helped me, Much love!!!!!!
i try this and just work in LAN i want to play with my friends in differents internets, sooo can anyone help me?
When you're hosting, they need to enter your public ip address rather than localhost (just like if it was a Minecraft server)
use hamachi:) or port forward for example port 7777 (internal and external) TCP and let them connect to your ip through that port.
@@DapperDinoCodingTutorials stupid question, but is port forwarding required for this project? Like if you and your friend wanted to connect on different IP addresses, and you were hosting, would you need to mess around with ports and stuff? I want to make a game but I don't want my players to have to deal with that stuff. I know that it works fine on localhost because it's LAN
@@sauerklout2496 Maybe check into Nat punch through. Default transport is Telepathy Transport, but if you add component and type transport you can see some others. Not sure what ones offer nat punch through but google might know.
@@sauerklout2496 Only the player hosting the game needs to setup Port Forwarding.
Hello Dapper Dino :-)
Thanks for the tutorial.
As you said at the beginning the video, if you could do a video about > Dedicated servers < it would be awesome.
P2p networking is already so much covered on TH-cam.
And is good for testing on a little scale but maybe not so "realistic" as soon as you want to release/publish a Game.
By the way thanks for your content about DOT as well, I like the examples you take. Because these are actual examples for games and not only to show-off that DOT/ECS can handle 100 000 entities that just walk in one direction but you offer actual core game mechanics :-)
Cheers,
I'm really glad that you're enjoying the content and yes I will be showing how to set up a dedicated server at some point but for right now I'll just stick to what we have (which btw isn't P2P it's still Client-Server but the host machine is a client and a server
@@DapperDinoCodingTutorials Does mirror support splitting up server and client code?
Can you make a video on how to migrate host so when the host leaves game it doesn't disconnect everyone, thank you for the wonderful tutorials.
Damn!!! just found this. Keep being dapper Mr Dino
I shall keep being dapper, don't worry :D
Good Job!
Can I use it in a commercial product, or do I need some kind of licence?
I know this is an old comment but in case anyone else stumbles across this - Mirror is open source and licensed under the MIT license, meaning it can be used, modified and distributed in any project, personal or commercial, without fees or attribution. So, no license/purchase needed
I just stumbled upon this series and it seems like it would be so helpful! I was just wondering if it would work on mobile as well?
Cost of running dedicated Mirror servers on AWS? Which EC2 machines and any networking gotchas?
yes dude ! this looks awsome just what ive been looking for
How can I do a client built on a phone and connect it to a server created on the PC with mirror?
Is there an easy way to implement a class system in mirror? i don't know how to get started since it only uses 1 player prefab
I know im being the dumb one here but how do you allow someone to connect to the server from another computer? Do we enter the ip address or is there some other listening code? I saw the port thing after pressing the client/server button but Im not sure what im doing there....Networking knowledge is still new to me and im easing my way in.
would it be possible to use the steam friend system to join other games with mirror?
Have a look at today's video: th-cam.com/video/QlbBC07dqnE/w-d-xo.html
@@DapperDinoCodingTutorials Awesome
I have tried the example scene of the tanks and I see a little delay between the cannon rotation and the projectile firing, would you know how to fix this problem?. Thanks.
Ive tried it, doesnt seem to work but i just wanted to double check. Can a friend and i download Hamachi and connect through to each other from different wifi? Just like i do with LAN Minecraft? Thanks :)
Just was searching for this!
Glad I could help :)
ooh Mirror :)
Great Video!
Thanks :)
@@DapperDinoCodingTutorials Do you think you would ever do a video on how to setup a dedicated server?
I *_Subscribed_* Because this video was great and helpful for me and my friends to play together 😀 So Thank You Very Much!
Can i use this to host online multiplayer? not just local mulyiplayer?
thanks so much, actually works, really simple, great vid!
just what i was searching thank you!
Help! I cant get mirror working across devices, it will only work on the same device opened up twice. Cant get it working across different devices please help.
You'll need to either look into port-forwarding or use Steam like I do here th-cam.com/video/QlbBC07dqnE/w-d-xo.html
@@DapperDinoCodingTutorials thanks, much appreciated, please read comment below
@Dapper Dino What if I want it to work not through steam though, for example on mobile devices, could you link a video on that?
@@DapperDinoCodingTutorials please read comment above
@@ThePro-ng4yt dw I used photon now and have got global multiplayer which is cool
help when i import i get 6 error in assets/mirror/runtime/networkloop.cs
I'm not seeing the NetworkManagerHUD in the Game view. It is checked on in the inspector.
Hey i am beginner i want to make multiplayer game next year . IDK what to choose UE4 or Unity mirror , a lot of people say mirror is very buggy and won t work for MMO with collision ,stats , e.t.c
Great explanation.
Thank you very much.
Before I jump into learning Mirror, does it only support LAN multiplayer as visible in this tutorial?
It also supports connection over the internet :)
@@DapperDinoCodingTutorials I see! Thank you so much for the swift reply.
Hello Dapper Dino! I don't have much experience with visual studio, so I have a question regarding that. How are you able to see the references and implementations of the functions inside the base NetworkManager class? I'm using Visual Studio Code, but I can't access none of that information. If I hover my mouse over the function, nothing appears. This might be a silly noob question, but could you help me out?
Is there any tutorial on how to integrate a mirror on a real vps or cloud? I think to develop multiplayer android game, so I'm little bit confused about all game architecture. Any suggestion?
Hi can you create a tutorial showing us how to host this on google cloud
How can i encrease the amount of people that can conect to server, i did sone research and saw that there is a 600 player limit, how can i encrase it
So Mirror is a different thing from Unity HLAPI and LLAPI and the new Network-transport Layer? Which is the best? I know it is a relative term and depends on what you are making, but I always try to use the default code and avoid 3rd party code as it tends to change or lose support. Would you make a video on the new Network-transport Layer, please?
hi thanks for the tutorial! a question, how can I create different rooms on the same server?
do you need o build it for it to work?
How do you make this work for a Secure WebSocket (WSS) for a WebGL build? So I can run a mirror multuplayer game on an HTTPS site...?