Load player scenes ?

Genox

Hi everyone.

As you know, to play a multiplayer game you need to see your character and other players' characters. Well, I found the godot's doc about high level multiplayer but I understood nothing as my server and my client are two separated projects.

So, I wanted to ask : How could I create a player list in the server, and everytime someone connects, a player is added on the list and every client connected refreshes its list and a new scene is instanced in every client ?

I tried to use a PoolByteArray for the server's list but I don't know how to make a function for every byte in the pool, instance a scene.

Ackman6

There is a function in the SceneTree that gets the peer ID of every connected peer (Including the server). You can call it using;

get_tree().get_network_connected_peers()

To synchronize clients they must be able to do three things

Whenever a new player joins the game it must create scenes for every other player
Whenever a player joins the game its scene has to be created on every computer
Whenever a player leaves the game its scene has to be removed on every computer

The 3 tasks require 3 signals (All on the client). Clients should do as much work as possible. The only work the server should do is the calculations that you don't trust the clients to do for example. Damage calculations or XP calculation.

connected_to_server()

get_tree().connect("connected_to_server", self, "_connected_to_server")

# This function is called when this player connects to the server
func _connected_to_server():
	# Loop through peers and instance instance players with their unique peer ID as their name
	for peer_id in get_tree().get_network_connected_peers():
		# If the peer ID = 1 don't instance it because thats the server
		if peer_id != 1:
			var new_peer = load("player").instance()
			new_peer.name = peer_id
			add_child(new_peer)

network_peer_connected ( int id )

get_tree().connect("network_peer_connected", self, "_peer_connected")

# This function is called when a player joins the server
func _peer_connected(peer_id):
	# Make sure you don't add yourself
	if peer_id != get_tree().get_network_unique_id():
		var new_peer = load("player").instance()
		new_peer.name = peer_id
		add_child(new_peer)

network_peer_disconnected ( int id )

get_tree().connect("network_peer_disconnected", self, "_peer_disconnected")

# This function is called when a player leaves the server
func _peer_disconnected(peer_id):
	# Make sure you don't kill yourself
	if peer_id != get_tree().get_network_unique_id():
		# Kill the peers node
		get_node(str(peer_id)).queue_free()

Genox

Thanks a lot Ackman6, I never thought such a function could exist, you saved me !! Now, I should try sync player's movements