Third Party Photon Bootcamp Multiplayer Demo

Photon Bootcamp Demo


Overview
Exit Games and Kingsmound turned Unity's famous Bootcamp Demo into a blueprint for multiplayer shooters.
The complete project is available for free in the Asset Store.

Features

• Create and join rooms
• Synchronization for position and animation
• Firing and hits
• Compatible with Photon Cloud Service
  A fully hosted and loadbalanced service for realtime multiplayer games. No server setup, no maintenance by you. Just register and you have a running server available to you and your customers. Worldwide.
• Compatible with Photon Server SDK
  As alternative you can also host Photon on your own machines. The Photon Server SDK is a realtime multiplayer framework that implements game logic in C#. It's fully customizable, flexible and providing triple-A performance.
• Based on Photon Client SDK for Unity
  This demo is based on the "plain" Photon SDK (download here) for Unity, a customizable API and base framework to develop multiplayer games. If you like a more hands on approach and seek an alternative to Photon Unity Networking.

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Here the download link: http://u3d.as/content/exit-games/photon-bootcamp-demo/1AA

 

Nice one, thanks!

 

I'm a french so i speack a little english. I have a problem for install the photon bootcamp demo. Can you help me ?

 

bobo: I'm sorry. My French is most likely worse than your English. So, you should follow the included readme. It's brief but should be easy to follow.

 

My problem is after install bootcamp demo multiplayer i clik on play. but the game says "missing apID" and i have 3 solutions open "dashboard" "select settings object" and "stop".
Please help me, you can speack english because i use google traduction.
thanks

 

sorry i forget photo. I take a capture.

 

I read the "README" but i understand because I use google traduction but i have many problems.

 

When you use PhotonCloud, you get an application id (AppID), which is a string to paste into your game client. This way, your client and players are kept separate from other games.

You need to login to the website and copy the AppID:
Visit: https://cloud.exitgames.com/Dashboard
Running the game in the Unity Editor, in that error screen, press "Select SettingsObject" and find the AppID variable to paste your ID.

 

Thanks, i test that after.

 

ok i test. but when i press "Selct Settings Object" it nothing happens. Help me !
but i have a questons, until install "bootcamp demo unity pultiplayer", i do install photon cloud server ?

 

thank i play the game !!
you are very nice.
thank

 

thank you very much, but I have two problems.
1 - players take too long to die.
must take 30 balls for him to die.

 

I would remove it

 

bobo159951: Do as you please. From a Demo standpoint, that output and the amount of hitpoints are fine for us.
You could also note it has only one level

By the way: we updated the demo but the change is very minor. We only worked on the in-game menu to make a return to lobby possible. Again: This is not extremely beautiful and more a demo.

 

thank you, but actually I do not know how to change hitpoints. Can you explain to me how it's done?
And also I would like to remove the bar circled in red, how can I do?
thank you in advance, I hope not to annoy you!

 

Please, help me! I ran Photon Server on my computer and filled in "Custom Server Address" my ip. And pressed the button "Play". But it wrote me, that AppId field is empty. I don't want to run this demo with Photon Cloud. I want to run it with Photon Server. What should I do if I want to run it without Photon Cloud, but with Photon Server? Answer, please.

 

I'm French so it is for this reason that I talk funny. I had the same problem, you must include on the address https://cloud.exitgames.com/Dashboard
registered after Thee, connects you. You copy / paste your app id.
You start your game, after you click on "sellect setting object" and you rendtre in variable appId your appId.
Maybe you do not understand me.

 

skeletarik: When the "UsePhoton" object's Custom Server Address is missing the "port" part of the address, the message you see appears.
The address has to be entered in form of IPort (e.g. 127.0.0.1:5055).
If you enter the IP 127.0.0.1, the server must be running on the same machine that also runs your client, so there is a warning about this fact. Don't be surprised if you see that message popping up

 

Thank you) I'm sorry, but I forgot to write, that I solved this problem a few hours later My error was not only in port, in deploy/LoadBalancing/Game Server1 and Game Server 2 I changed ip-address from 127.0.0.1 to my ip. It was a bit difficult to find that, and I would be grateful if you wrote in readme that this two files must be changed In order that other people will be able to start to work with Photon Server at once Sorry, my English isn't very good because I'm from Russia)

 

Good to know you found it. We will update the documentation soon.

 

Can anyone please upload the photon bootcamp demo? please? My unity 3.5.1f2 crashes whenever I try to download it through the asset store.. . If anyone would upload it, it would be very nice of him/her.. Please can anybody post it to media fire or something else?

 

Did you report a crash bug to Unity?
You could also try to delete the download before re-downloading it again.
Sorry, we don't have it online anywhere else yet.

 

I reported.. But I didn't get any reply... . Can anybody please upload it to the server?... I have a server which uploads at a superfast speed... If you can upload it then it would be very nice.. You can upload it here... What is the size of the game?

 

i put 127.0.0.1:5055 but i got a status when i entered the room name and hit create :
[DebugReturn] GameInstance state is: Disconnected

 

aniruddh1998:
You should delete the files downloaded by the Asset Store. Then re-download and import into a new, empty project.

gharaibeh:
You have to run the server on the same machine that will be running the demo. The guide is now updated:
http://doc.exitgames.com/photon-server/PhotonIn5Min/#cat-First Steps
Run "LoadBalancing (MyCloud)" instead of the "Default" instance!

Clients from other machines will not be able to connect just yet. 127.0.0.1:5055 works only for the same machine (called: loopback ip). PhotonControl has a menu item "LoadBalancing IP Config". This finds your server machine's IP and can set it up for the LoadBalancing server logic.
http://doc.exitgames.com/photon-server/PhotonControlApplication/#lbpca

 

I've been researching the best package for our FPS. We are looking at UDK(3/4), CryEngine and Unity. We dont need the super high end graphics so therefore Unity3D is a potential choice due to saving 25% in fees for UDK or CryEngine. However, those two engines are built for FPS, Unity is not. Then I saw this asset you created. So I have some questions....

1. Pricing - ideally once a customer has purchased our game they can host their own games for other clients to connect to using the Photon Server SDK (not cloud), is that correct? Is it safe to assume if our games max at 16 total players per server then its 100% free?

2. With #1 above in mind, how does server/host discovery work for the client (lobby using your cloud services?) and whats the pricing model for that (is it your pricing page and based on CCU in the master lobby and once a connection is made to the host game they are no longer a CCU in the lobby?).

3. Withing your kit in the original post does it address the FPS issues that this kit does such as interlpolation, lag compensation, predictions, hit boxes etc that a standard FPS has and that UDK/CryEngine have built in?

In summary, I need to assess if its wise to do a AAA FPS with Unity (Mac/PC/Consoles) and where the tradeoffs are regarding what one gets out of the box from a AAA engine....its the 25% over the lifetime of a product in fees vs. a Unity3D license and stuff from the asset store.

EDIT: for #1 above the host would be an "authoritative" server, a little curious how physics works as well in that regard but more importantly the impacts on feasibility with Photon and Unity to do that.

 

Intrawebs: We have a couple of FPSs using Photon:

- Offensive Combat: http://u4iagames.com/ (AAA team)
- CMUNE Überstrike: http://uberstrike.cmune.com/
- beGone: http://www.nplay.com/BeGone/
- (Mobile) Critical Strike: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.StudioOnMars.CSPortable

#1 right now our license does not allow redistribution of Photon executable. But we will allow this for the 20CCU version: so yes.
#2 you need to write this discovery - we have no turn key solution for this yet
#3 yes, you need to implement this on your own

Feel free to touch base directly via developer@exitgames.com

Chris

 

Sorry if this is old but, my friend cannot see my created room, and I cannot see his, I have the appid set for cloud and it had no errors.
Any Ideas?
P.S. I downloaded from the asset store.

 

In simplest case, you have a whitespace in your appId. Please copy and paste again and make sure there's no " ".
We only noticed recently that this is a source for issues and will trim the entry with upcoming releases.

 

Same problem. No whitespaces.

 

detonator:
Enter your appid, game version (set it when calling ConnectUsingSettings()) and PUN version in this client and enter the lobby to see if this shows any games you created:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4295285/cloud-monitoring-client/index.html

If the games don't show up, I need some way to check what causes the issue in your case. Send your data and a way to reproduce the issue to: developer@exitgames.com please.

 

How i can know PUN version? I use web player on local machine, without enter PUN version. Room not visible. I use web player on kongregate without enter PUN version. Room not visible. Game version field is it mean?

 

You get the PUN version from: PhotonNetwork.versionPUN.
GameVersion is the value you pass into ConnectUsingSettings().

 

I am new in networking and photon unity networking. For get PUN version, in project boot camp multiplayer demo, i create new script, and add it to empty GameObject in the scene. In function Start i add code: print(PhotonNetwork.versionPUN); I have error Assets/NewBehaviourScript.cs(8,15): error CS0103: The name `PhotonNetwork' does not exist in the current context
Where i can find PUN scripting reference?

 

Don't worry, I am doing this too long already
Cause: I didn't think about it enough. The Photon Bootcamp Demo does not use PUN at all. It uses our plain LoadBalancing API.

When you don't use PUN, leave the blank the PUN version ("") in the monitor client to spy on created rooms:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4295285/cloud-monitoring-client/index.html

 

Remember to remove the (s) off the https:// when ya put a link in from Dropbox or something. It doesn't load automatically, it acts like I have no webplayer installed.

 

All work fine right now A see created rooms. But maximum players in the room is two. How i can fix this?

 

JamesArndt: Odd. When I use the https link, it loads for me. Maybe it's a security thing and I added an exception for dropbox that accepts their signature. Not sure. Good you point it out though!

detonator: Where the room is created, you pass in the number of players allowed. I have no clue why we thought 2 is a good number here. I think it's OpCreateRoom (I often confuse it with PUN's CreateRoom method, which is named this way to resemble Unity's Networking methods more closely).

 

Hi I'm planning to implement multiplayer into a racing game, currently comparing the two implementations of exitgame's unity sdk and "PUN", PUN looks slightly easier to code but I this is my first time implementing a real time game (with physics) using photon if anyone has any good advice based on prior experience please do share.. (I'm using UnityCar for the vehicle's physics)..

 

In the Unity editor, i joined to room. In scene window, I try to manipulate another player gameobject. After that, player is disconected. But model of the player, is staying at the game. That room is closed. When i create new room, model of the manipulated player appear in the room. I try to restart browser, delete cache, and make new bild. Some information of disconected player stores on sever. How i can delete it?

 

bobo159951 asked a question about removing this box from the game screen and I have looked for an answer that was given and cannot find it.

I also would like to get rid of this box.




Also even if I have the "Development Build" unchecked in the build settings the Development Build" still shows in the lower right hand side of the screen in the game.

How do I get of that.

"Development Build" is unchecked in the build settings.

Is it only able to build for 30 days without the "Development Build" showing and then you have to pay $1,500 US to get rid of it?

If that is the case then I will just have to suffer with it.

$1,500 US is way to much money for unity.

I have used other game engines that perform as well and they were open source and free.

The only thing that Unity does that the others don't do is making the games playable through a browser.

Like I said if that is the case I will just have to suffer with it.

I would still like to get rid of the server info box ingame though.

Also when I run the game through webplayer and switch weapons I get the following error:
"NullReferenceExceptionObject reference not set to an instance of an object".

However the weapons work just fine.

How can I stop that error from coming up in the game.

 

I can't give much help about modifying the box away right now (sorry, busy, trying to reply anyways). But you can look up the GUI code for it in the scripts. Look up "rountriptime in". This should be text that shows up. Comment out the code that shows this.

About the nullreference: Please copy&paste the full error including the filename and line number...

 

The error that I posted for "nullreference" in quotes in the post before this one is the exact and full error.

Here it is again: "NullReferenceExceptionObject reference not set to an instance of an object"

The error occurs in game not in the editor.

 

I only get this error when start the game in editor:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
ReflectionFx.OnDisable () (at Assets/Scripts/Fx/ReflectionFx.cs:44)
UnityEngine.Behaviour:set_enabled(Boolean)
ReflectionFx:Start() (at Assets/Scripts/Fx/ReflectionFx.cs:30)

 

I opened usePhoton.cs and commented out the following lines and now I have no errors at all and the server info box is gone.

Thanks a ton Dude!!

I posted the results to help others that need the same thing.

 

Need someone to tell me where to locate the code that handles player respawn point.

On death the player is respawned need to know where to locate the handler that directs the position or object that places the player on respawn.

 

Hello could anyone help me out? this seems to be exactly what i need. but is there any way to make it so that rooms are persistent? or only reset when commanded/scheduled.

I'm trying to make a third person shooter/RPG-ish kind of game where players can collect weapons and items, and it's persistant per room (preferably) or server wide, but the rooms stay open/active even while no players are inside (the player models will just disappear while theyre logged out)

could anyone give me any insight on this? and if it isnt possible with this, what other asset might accomplish this. (im a 3D modeler, not a scripter, so my programming knowledge is very limited.

 

Where is the documentation for the tutorial?

http://developer.exitgames.com/bootcampmultiplayerdemo

is giving me a 404.

Thanks!