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Re: Using ConnectToMaster does not join self hosted photon server

In PhotonNetwork.ConnectToMaster(), above the SetupLogging() call, add this:
NetworkingClient.LoadBalancingPeer.SerializationProtocolType = SerializationProtocol.GpBinaryV16;

This should help. The server from the SDK does not yet support the new/current serialization protocol.
PUN 2 sets the "old" protocol in ConnectUsingSettings() but not in ConnectToMaster(), which is a problem here.

Tobias

Re: IS there an example of CAS anywhere?

You get an error response from the server, you can get it from a MonoBehaviour as follows:

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        PhotonNetwork.NetworkingClient.OpResponseReceived += NetworkingClientOnOpResponseReceived; 
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        PhotonNetwork.NetworkingClient.OpResponseReceived -= NetworkingClientOnOpResponseReceived; 
    }

    private void NetworkingClientOnOpResponseReceived(OperationResponse opResponse)
    {
        if (opResponse.OperationCode == OperationCode.SetProperties &&
            opResponse.ReturnCode == ErrorCode.InvalidOperation)
        {
            // cas failure
        }
    }

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Re: Recording of Photon Transactions for 'INSTANT REPLAY' ?

Hi @kjhuebner,

Thank you for choosing Photon!

You can use cached events (or buffered RPCs) for replay.
However, you need to add a tag or flag (or counter, number etc.) to the custom events' payload so clients can keep track of which events are already received or which ones are from cache.
You can also clean up those you don't need anymore as the events cache should not be abused and is limited.

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Re: PhotonNetwork.LeaveRoom and disconnect all clients

Hi @sweetmei25,

What you could do is, from MasterClient:

- Set CurrentRoom.IsOpen = false, CurrentRoom.IsVisible = false CurrentRoom.PlayerTtl= 0 and CurrentRoom.EmptyRoomTtl = 0.
- Send a "disconnect even" to all CACHED (or buffered RPC), raiseEventOptions.CachingOption = CachingOption.AddToRoomCache or raiseEventOptions.CachingOption = CachingOption.AddToRoomCacheGlobal, this way when the actor who is in the background or inactive will leave as soon as joined to the room if that happens.
- Leave the room.

Otherwise, your only options are server side via custom plugin or custom app. code.

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Re: Can I mix PUN and Realtime?

@fiban
When using RaiseEvent make sure to avoid event codes reserved/used by PUN.
A safe interval is 0..199.

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Re: Is there any tutorial or example of Photon LoadBalancing for multiplayer game?

Hi @sweetmei25.

demo-particle-unity is a demo for LoadBalancing.
demo-turnbased-memory is also a demo for LoadBalancing, but focussing more on the asyncronous turn-based features
demo-photon-chat-uGUI is a demo for Photon Chat.

The LoadBalancing Client API is compatible to Photon Realtime on Photon Cloud and also to the LoadBalancing application on self-hosted Photon Servers.

The .NET version of the LoadBalancing Client API has recently been renamed into PhotonRealtime to match the name of the Photon Cloud product with which it can be used. However despite this name-change it is still also the client side APi for the LoadBalancing application of self hosted photon servers.

Inside the particle demo folder a copy of the LoadBalancing Client API source is located at demo-particle-unity\Assets\Photon\PhotonRealtime\Code\.

Kaiserludi

Re: Can I mix PUN and Realtime?

Hi @fiban,

pass PhotonNetwork.NetworkingClient to my library

This is nice and won't break PUN, I thought you wanted the other way around: inject your own custom LoadBalancingClient (or subclass) into PUN.

call lbc.OpJoinRoom(...) and/or other Realtime API in my library

Use anything available in PUN from PUN only. I don't see a benefit from calling this outside of PUN. PUN has an offline mode that may be using those methods. Could you specify "other Realtime API"? if it's SetProperties or RaiseEvent then I think it's safe and OK.

it doesn't corrupt the PhotonNetwork state

Other than the offline mode, if you refer to the networking client's state then it's the same in PUN and Realtime.

I will invite @Tobias to chime in.

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Re: Can I mix PUN and Realtime?

Well, even though you can access PhotonNetwork.NetworkingClient, it won't work well to temporarily ignore PUN and directly call OpJoin on the client. As you guessed, some state of PUN will eventually go corrupt. It's not entirely driven by the lower level API, sorry.
You could hand over PUN's NetworkingClient to your logic to also call OpRaiseEvent or such but we can't guarantee that matchmaking and hopping from server to server can be done in a mix of apis.
Maybe that's possible to create but this wasn't a goal for PUN 2 and so it's not tested.

Tobias

Re: Is there any tutorial or example of Photon LoadBalancing for multiplayer game?

Hi @sweetmei25,

Sorry, I misunderstood your question.
All demos are inside the SDKs yes.
Download them for free once registered.

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Re: Accessing different players properties

Hi @LucaBrasi,

Thank you for choosing Photon!

Actor properties are accessible only when joined to rooms.
Also, actor properties are per room and are not global or shared/persisted across rooms.

The local client's actor properties are an exception as they are cached locally, can be set before joining rooms and may be reused.

To access the actor properties for the remote players when joined to rooms, the idea is to test if player.IsLocal

Player[] allPlayers = PhotonNetwork.PlayerList;
            for (int i = 0; i < allPlayers.Length; i++)
            {
                if (!allPlayers[i].IsLocal)
                {

                }
            }

Or:

Player[] remotePlayers = PhotonNetwork.PlayerListOthers;
            for (int i = 0; i < remotePlayers.Length; i++)
            {
            }

Or easier since it's a 1v1:

Player remotePlayer = PhotonNetwork.PlayerListOthers[0];

Or:

Player remotePlayer = PhotonNetwork.LocalPlayer.GetNext();

Then get the property or properties:

if (remotePlayer != null) 
{
   object customPropValue = remotePlayer.CustomProperties[customPropKey];
}

Actor properties changes have a callback:

IInRoomCallbacks.OnPlayerPropertiesUpdate(Player targetPlayer, Hashtable changedProps)

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