Third Party How to design an offline multiplayer game using Photon Unity Networking

I have designed a multiplayer game in Unity 3D using Photon Unity Network plugin for multiplayer gaming. It is working fine in the online mode. I want the same multiplayer game running offline without the Photon cloud. I want all the players to join to the same room. But when I run the code below I can see only my player but not any other player.

Code (CSharp):

1. void Start () {
2. spawnSpots =GameObject.FindObjectsOfType<SpawnSopt>();
3. Connect ();
4. //PhotonNetwork.CreateRoom("my");
5. PhotonNetwork.JoinRoom("my");
6. SpawnMyPlayer();
7. }
8.  
9. void SpawnMyPlayer(){
10. if (spawnSpots == null) {
11. Debug.Log("No SpawnSpots Found");
12. return;
13. }
14. SpawnSopt mySpawnSpot = spawnSpots[Random.Range(0,spawnSpots.Length)];
15. GameObject myPlayerGO = (GameObject) PhotonNetwork.Instantiate ("PlayerController", mySpawnSpot.transform.position, mySpawnSpot.transform.rotation, 0);
16. ((MonoBehaviour)myPlayerGO.GetComponent ("ThirdPersonController")).enabled = true;
17. ((MonoBehaviour)myPlayerGO.GetComponent ("ThirdPersonCamera")).enabled = true;
18. }

I am trying to join all the players to the same exact room. But why it is not happening?

Please note that I am talking about Photon offline mode and I don't want to make my game single player. I want an offline multiplayer game.

Thanks in advance.

 

Are you trying to do a local multiplayer option, with multiple players on one device? I don't think PUN will help much with that. As far as I know it assumes there is only one local player, whether you're offline or not. I could be wrong though, I haven't used it much.

I also don't think PUN offline mode supports rooms. See here for some notes on offline mode: http://doc.exitgames.com/en/pun/current/reference/pun-and-un

 

I am trying to make a multiplayer TD game for iOS/android that would allow the devices to connect using wifi/bluetooth . the multiplayer in essence means creating a co-operative environment over here. I was wondering if there is a way to achieve this without going into network of native android or iOS.

 

Ah OK, I see what you mean now. My impression is that none of the Photon products support this - as far as I've seen they are all based, one way or another, on relaying traffic through a central server, either self-hosted or in "the cloud". You should use their forums to look for an authoritative answer though.

 

I am looking for the same solution? did anyone find a solution

 

DarkRift, Forge, uLink, and pretty much everything besides Photon has LAN capabilities because Photon is a very unique networking solution. Sorry for the grim solution, but Photon wasn't designed for locally hosted games so you'll need to use another networking solution.

Actually, you can give players the Photon Redistributable server but that's very involved, especially if you want to make it user friendly.

 

@ahsenarif: PUN Offline mode is really offline. It can be useful if you want to create a singleplayer mode for a multiplayer game. It's behaving like the online mode but the client is alone in a (local) room without needing the connection.
Photon does not support client-side hosting, so you always need a dedicated server in the LAN or other network. There is a Redistributable Server which you could hand out to players but of course that's less convenient than in-Unity hosting for LAN.

 

As far as I know,photon server's loadbalancing feature can help in connecting local players..Correct me if I'm wrong

 

Sorry but Photon does not help to connect local players.
We got a service for Bolt, which helps Punch Through and does relay as fallback but that's currently specific to Photon Bolt.

 

Is there any free library that I can use for local multiplayer networking ?

 

There are several options. Which one fits you best, obviously depends on your requirements, experience and so on.
Most are easy to find and several are even in the Asset Store.

This forum thread might help:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/wha...of-available-network-solutions-assets.609088/

 

I don't mean to necro a thread but, in case someone comes along needing this info, and considering it was the first thing on google...

why has no one here suggested simply having one "player" on the network but having 2 characters for the current player? It's really strange to me that the only response given here was "nope, not possible".