0.0.8

Breaking Changes

None

Changed

• Fixes client desync bug due to inputs that arrive near a delta sync

Added

None

Removed

None

0.0.7

Breaking Changes

• Several variable cases have changed
• Random number functionality is now found via NetworkStateManager.Random instead of being directly accessed from NetworkStateManager

Changed

• Splits NSM into several smaller managers
• Lays the groundwork for introducing unit tests to the core functionality
• General code style and style consistency improvements
• Fixes bug where the server receives inputs, but doesn't replay to incorporate them in all cases

Added

• Adds null checks in several places

Removed

• Removes unnecessary duplicate IsHost check
• Moves many TODO's into GitHub issues

0.0.6

Breaking Changes

• Package installation now happens via git URL and manual prerequisite installation, because I couldn't get OpenUPM to work smoothly

Changed

• Updated to use Networking for GameObjects v 1.8.1
• Updated to use MemoryPack 1.10.0

Added

None

Removed

None

0.0.5

Breaking Changes

• Package installation now happens via OpenUPM, not installing a .unitypackage
• The package name has been updated, to allow compatibility with OpenUPM. If you were using a previous version of this library, you'll need to remove it before installing the new version.

Changed

• Substantial refactoring of how game state is stored and transmitted. This includes using MemoryPack to do binary serialization of all NSM-related game state.
• Network traffic is reduced by ~84% in my testing, courtesy of more efficient serialization, binary diffing, and compression
• Inputs are now managed outside the gamestate frames, because it was proving more trouble than it's worth to manage those things together
• Moved NetworkID-related logging to use NSM's verbose logger
• Moved NetworkID initialization into NetworkIdManager
• Take full control over random number generation, as external sources kept interfering with Unity's Random
  • This means that you MUST use NSM for synchronization on anything random
  • If it's not important for synchronization (e.g. "randomly shake the camera"), then you should probably still use Unity's RNG
• When state inconsistency is detected, the client will request a full state frame from the server, which greatly improves network reliability on spotty connections
• The RollbackEvents event now also passes the IGameState object for the frame after the rolled back state, in case it's needed to properly roll back an event
• Internal simulation functions are named more descriptively, hopefully making it easier to understand what the library actually does.
• Verbose logging now includes some stack trace info, to make it easier to understand what's happening from only the log messages

Added

• Interface requirements for IGameState have changed to now require GetBinaryRepresentation() and RestoreFromBinaryRepresentation() functions.
  • On the upside, you no longer have to implement INetworkSerializable, so there's that.
• Optionally send full state frames periodically
• RemoveEventAtTick(), for de-scheduling an event. Usually this only really comes up when rolling back an event that itself schedules a future event.
• PredictInputForPlayer() function, which will predict an IPlayerInput for a given player id.
  • This is needed right now to handle the case where not all inputs are present for a frame. In the future, the plan is to change things to make this unnecessary.

Removed

• Debug rollback options. These were really only intended to be used when debugging NSM itself, and are no longer needed.

0.0.4

Changed

• Major refactoring of how game events work internally. They should be substantially more reliable and predictable now.
• NetworkID management moved to NetworkIdManager class, accessible through networkStateManager.networkIdManager
• Refactored allocation of network id's, so that they can be more easily reused (and play nicer with rollback scenarios)
• Fixed some bugs in state DTOs where get accessors could return an object that wasn't actually used internally
• Rigidbody sleep/wake state are now sync'd (note: this may be removed later, as it's unclear if it's strictly required)
• When StateBuffer is asked for a non-existent frame, it returns the last known state before that frame instead of a blank frame
• Some event delgates have changed their signatures
• Lifecycle events asking NSM for gameTick will get the tick associated with the frame in progress, which may be different from the "real" game tick
• Misc code cleanup and organization improvements

Added

• Hello, NetworkStateManager demo project added.
• OnRollbackEvents lifecycle event
• Unity's Random number generator is now determistically synchronized
• Various toggles for debugging more complex rollback scenarios
• networkStateManager.isReplaying can be used to determine whether a lifecycle event is happening during normal playback or a replay scenario
• Truly verbose verbose logging. Truly.

0.0.3

Fixes a problem with IGameEvent and RPCs

v0.0.2

See CHANGELOG.md for changes.