Complete Unity Developer - Section 11 - Ahoy Matey

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Section 11 Notes

• Congratulations on your progress.
• Point-and-click 3D isometric ship battle.
• Multiplayer, you can use just one PC.
• Using UNet throughout, minimising prefabs.
• Section notes are attached.

Section 11 Game Design Document (GDD)

• Create a simple GDD live.
• Write a paragraph explaining the game concept.
• List the major game rules.
• Define the asset requirements.
• Think about how we may monetise this game.

Testing Network Games Locally

• An overview of the development process.
• Unity Editor against local build.
• Testing between two different machines on LAN.
• Version control is an option (Git, SVN, etc).
• Optional: set-up Dropbox sync between 2 PCs.

Deploying Our Game Locally

• How to deploy the same version to 2 machines.
• Version control is an option (Git, SVN, etc).
• You could use a shared folder.
• Set-up Dropbox sync between 2 PCs.
• Care to use one as master (also the host).

Introducing Network Manager

• The concept of a stack of APIs.
• An overview of Unity’s network stack.
• Finding out where to start with networking.
• Get our game running with networking enabled

Replacing Network Manager HUD

• Why we want to replace the default HUD.
• What the default HUD does for us.
• Create our own “Start Host” button.
• Where to find the API documentation.
• Wiring the button to script and testing.

About The Override Keyword

• A recap of inheritance.
• What the override keyword does.
• Why we need to use it here.
• Explaining public override void OnStartHost()
• Test the result.

Logging Client Start Requests

• About localhost* vs. an IPv4 address.
• Finding out your machine’s IP address.
• Temporarily using the HUD again to connect.
• Connecting to a local build via localhost.

* localhost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Using NetworkTransform

• What NetworkTransform does for us.
• About NetworkIdentity and why it’s needed.
• Make movements travel over the network.
• Test this over the LAN, and with local build.
• Optionally: test this to a mobile too.

Networked Player Movement

• Understanding players in multiplayer games.
• Getting players working on clients.
• Filter input with NetworkBehaviour.isLocalPlayer

Multiple Players With Local Authority

• Adding a Network Transform to our player.
• Re-introducing Local Player Authority.
• Testing 3-way player movement.

MultiPlayer Cameras

• Add a camera as a child of Player.
• What is causing our camera issue.
• One simple way of solving it.
• Care with disabling camera object vs. component.
• Don’t use deprecated NetworkView component

Network Recap & What’s Next

• Talk through Unity’s Network System Concepts*
• Ask “What’s not fun about this game”.
• Challenge you to make a basic game.
• Please thank @MarcoValeKaz for the ship.

* Unity Manual - Network Systems Concepts

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Section 11 Wrap-Up

• About the course taper structure.
• You have everything you need.
• Keep testing, keep asking, keep learning.
• I’m committed to maintaining this course.
• That includes adding to this section if needed.