Sharding

bkara
bkara

Hello,


Does any Photon product support sharding or a simillar technique? There is a room CC limit of 20. Say I want to have an experience with 100 users. Is there any way I can send one user's messages to multiple rooms on Photon cloud or across multiple servers? Or solve this problem in any other way?


Thanks,

Best Answer

  • Tobias
    Tobias admin
    Answer ✓

    PUN 2 is limiting the users/room because it is relatively tricky to do proper interest management and the messaging is not very efficient.

    Fusion does not limit the users per room in this way. We even have a Fusion sample with up to 200 players in the Asset Store (BR200). This runs with a high-ish update rate for a competitive shooter. Other game types may get more users in a single room.

    Sharding users into multiple rooms could be possible but it is not something we support right now.

Answers

  • Tobias
    Tobias admin
    Answer ✓

    PUN 2 is limiting the users/room because it is relatively tricky to do proper interest management and the messaging is not very efficient.

    Fusion does not limit the users per room in this way. We even have a Fusion sample with up to 200 players in the Asset Store (BR200). This runs with a high-ish update rate for a competitive shooter. Other game types may get more users in a single room.

    Sharding users into multiple rooms could be possible but it is not something we support right now.

  • Thank you for the detailed answer! The only reason we haven't switched to Fusion yet is the support for webhooks. Is there any plans for supporting webhooks in Fusion?

  • Yes, WebHooks are planned. They will be added for the next major release, which has no ETA yet.