Questions tagged [synchronization]
A process of maintaining similar game state across players and/or servers, thus giving all players same info about current sutuation on playfield.
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How to handle draw events without synchronization issues
So in my game I'm using a message queue for everything, very similar to an event manager or event queue pattern. I've seen that lots of people use them, and they decouple when the event fires and ...
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Rotation and unique identification
My question relates to content rotation and data management of the emerging objects in a database. I assume a networked game, with a server-client model. Unspecified objects in the game world are ...
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Should I use UDP to create a movement logic like League of Legends?
These are features of my game. You can only move by clicking the mouse like LOL. 30~50 players can play at a time. (So the game map will be larger than LOL) No jump Should I use UDP to update client'...
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How should I deal with transmission failures in Rollback Netcode?
I want to have some basic Rollback Netcode for a side project. I've been watching some basic conceptual breakdowns and tutorials to get an understanding of how it works. But I can't seem to find a ...
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Drifting local time vs server time synchronization
Imagine a server sending you (the client) game snapshots each 30ms. Your interpolation time is set at around 100ms, so ideally you are interpolating between 4th and 3rd snapshot, so by the time you ...
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Do server reconciliation and rollback refer to the same thing in multiplayer game networking?
I'm trying to understand the distinction between server reconciliation and rollback networking in games. From what I understand, both involve receiving snapshots from the server and replaying player ...
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How to synchronize NPCs across LAN?
As of now, players are synced using: ...
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Splitting world data between multiple threads in C++
I'm currently working on world management system for my multi-threaded game engine in C++. The problem I'm facing right now is synchronizing world data between main and render thread. The current ...
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Improve performance of server updating game state
I have a Node.js game that sends update packets to players every 30ms. The code I currently use works this way: Get the entities within each player's vision. Create a temporary object that stores ...
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How to sync ticks(Frames) between two peers?
I have a peer to peer game where both clients are running their own frame simulation. I'd like to sync the frame ticks so both peers know eachother's frame. But I"m having a bit of issue with ...
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How to control only own animations while still seeing animations of remote players
I tried using : ...
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How achievable is determinism when client and server run on different hardware?
Soon I'll have to start implementing networking for a game. To be able to simulate the game on both client and server and have no deviation, simulations need to be deterministic. But how can any ...
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Synchronizing in-game clock vs real world clocks across servers started at different times
Regardless if you know how Roblox works or if you know Lua syntax, I just need an algorithm/equation here. Currently, at the start of each server, I reference the seconds of a centralized clock since ...
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Interpolating server updates with client prediction: how to actually find time variable
I'm working on a 3D web game with client-side prediction, etc. I have implemented interpolation for my entities, but it seems a bit laggy sometimes even on localhost. First I will describe the ...
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How to replicate damage between users in a MUD
I'm working on a text-based MUD (Multi-User-Dungeon) in C++, but the most important thing in a MUD is the MU (Multi-User). Is there any easy way to implement these mechanics? I want a player on one ...
