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Unity Multiplayer Games.
Take your gaming development skills into the online multiplayer arena by harnessing the power of Unity 4 or 3. This is not a dry tutorial - it uses exciting examples and an enthusiastic approach to bring it all to life. Create a variety of multiplayer games and apps in the Unity 4 game engine, still...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Packt Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Unity Networking
- The Pong Game; Introducing multiplayer; Introducing UDP communication; Setting up the Master Server; NetworkViews and state serialization; Writing a custom state serializer; Using RPCs; Initializing a server; Connecting to a server; Connecting to the Master Server; Registering a server with the Master Server; Browsing available servers; Setting up a dedicated server model; Servers in Unity; Compiler directives; Setting up a server console without Pro
- Loading networked levelsCreating a multiplayer Pong game; Preparing the Field; The ball script; The Paddle script; Keeping score; Displaying the score to the player; Networking the game; Spawning paddles; Networked ball; Networked scorekeeping; Connect screen; Summary; Chapter 2: Photon Unity Networking
- The Chat Client; Differences between PUN and Unity Networking; Setting up PUN with Photon Cloud; Using PhotonViews; Connecting to Photon and getting a list of rooms; Creating and joining rooms; Creating rooms; Joining rooms; Filtering results by user preference; Filtering arrays
- Filtering and caching a room listAutomatic matchmaking; Finding friends; Syncing a level between players; Creating a chat client; The Connect screen; The Lobby screen; The chat room; Adding friends lists; Summary; Chapter 3: Photon Server
- Star Collector; Dedicated Servers; Getting Photon Server; Creating a server application; Creating a class library; Responding to operation requests; Deploying the server code; Connecting from Unity and passing messages; Creating a game logic class; Assigning player IDs; Building a star collector game; Preparing the class library; The Actor Class
- Sending an ID to a playerKeeping track of the game state; Spawning and picking up stars; Broadcasting events; Connecting from Unity; Creating/destroying actors; Controlling the player; Summary; Chapter 4: Player. IO
- Bot Wars; Player. IO versus Photon Server; Getting and setting up a development server; Setting up the Unity client SDK; Connecting to Player. IO; Getting a list of rooms; Connecting to rooms; Creating rooms; Random matchmaking; Sending/receiving messages; Server-side code; Working with BigDB; Creating a simple RTS prototype; Server-side code; Client-side code; Summary
- Chapter 5: PubNub
- The Global ChatboxOverview of PubNub; Getting started; How PubNub works; Parsing JSON from PubNub; Building a PubNub interface; Creating a global chatbox application; Publishing chat messages; Displaying chat logs; Summary; Chapter 6: Entity Interpolation And Prediction; Entity interpolation; Client-side prediction; Rigidbody simulation; Creating a networked object; Adding naive interpolation; Improving interpolation; Preparing for server authoritative movement; Implementing server authoritative movement; Notes on hacking; Summary; Chapter 7: Server-side Hit Detection