Multiplayer Lobby Confusion
Here's my scenario, I'm trying to create a multiplayer lobby for a game, What I did is I created one "master room" which every player must join initially so I can easily list/show all players currently connected to multiplayer using card like player info with a button to invite a player. Then if two players agree to play together, they would both leave the room and create a private room of their own, and start the game.
Unfortunately, I got stuck on the invite button, I have no idea on how to send a message to a specific player to invite him to play without using photon view. The player cards don't have a photon view component, and I'm listing it locally just by accessing PhotonNetwork.otherPlayers. How do I go about doing this? Is there an implementation that I missed, or should I try a different approach? if so what would you recommend?
Thanks in advance!
Unfortunately, I got stuck on the invite button, I have no idea on how to send a message to a specific player to invite him to play without using photon view. The player cards don't have a photon view component, and I'm listing it locally just by accessing PhotonNetwork.otherPlayers. How do I go about doing this? Is there an implementation that I missed, or should I try a different approach? if so what would you recommend?
Thanks in advance!
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You can communicate with other clients in room w/o PhotonView via PhotonNetwork.RaiseEvent() call and PhotonNetwork.OnEventCall callback.
Other possible option is setting player or room properties and handling properties change in OnPhotonPlayerPropertiesChanged or OnPhotonCustomRoomPropertiesChanged.5 -
We don't recommend using a room to do matchmaking. It's possible but doesn't scale well and is likely to break.
In best case, use server-side matchmaking. You could use a SQL Lobby for more sophisticated matching.
https://doc.photonengine.com/en/pun/current/tutorials/matchmaking-and-lobby
If you want to send a message to one player, you can use RPCs. You don't need a PhotonView per player, as you can put a PhotonView on any GameObject in any scene as well.
You can create a script with reference to that scene's PhotonView and still target a single other player to send the RPC to.
Hope that helps.5
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You can communicate with other clients in room w/o PhotonView via PhotonNetwork.RaiseEvent() call and PhotonNetwork.OnEventCall callback.
Other possible option is setting player or room properties and handling properties change in OnPhotonPlayerPropertiesChanged or OnPhotonCustomRoomPropertiesChanged.5 -
We don't recommend using a room to do matchmaking. It's possible but doesn't scale well and is likely to break.
In best case, use server-side matchmaking. You could use a SQL Lobby for more sophisticated matching.
https://doc.photonengine.com/en/pun/current/tutorials/matchmaking-and-lobby
If you want to send a message to one player, you can use RPCs. You don't need a PhotonView per player, as you can put a PhotonView on any GameObject in any scene as well.
You can create a script with reference to that scene's PhotonView and still target a single other player to send the RPC to.
Hope that helps.5 -
@vadim Thanks, I just discovered that a few hours after I posted this question and it works!
@Tobias thanks for the insights, though why I chose to put matchmaking inside a room, is because I can't access a master player list outside a room. I'll check the approach you recommended and try it out. I'm still new to multiplayers and networking so I'm still a bit confused on how to approach each problem accordingly. Thanks again guys, great support1