Hi! I want to implement a mechanism which shows you the closest players to you but also limit the amount. what is the best approach for this?
#Closest players visibility
shell glen
You could loop through the player objects on a client and check their distances. Or you could do it on the server and tell the relevant clients.
latent vessel
what max said but Id do it client side unless the server needs to know some reason too
left mirage
what max said but Id do it client side unless the server needs to know some reas...
it cant be the client side since if we get to 30k users it will make the phone explode 🙂
shell glen
Well, the client wouldn't ever have that many users observed by it at any one given point in time, so it would be checking far fewer than that
latent vessel
and do you want the client to explode or the server 😄
left mirage
server for sure since the performance is predictable.
latent vessel
Id encourage you to use client. Like max said you're never going to have that many ppl visible on client.
And if you do a few distance calculations is the least of your worries.
left mirage
Id encourage you to use client. Like max said you're never going to have that ma...
I dont understand, the server will send everything and the client need to understand who is close enough to show who is visible. its tons of bandwidth and processing.
latent vessel
the client can already see the other players
left mirage
thats what I want to limit. imagine 30k users.
latent vessel
Okay I think I get what you're saying now.
It seemed like you wanted to show a special fx or something on whichever player was closest to the client but you really just want to limit how much they see.
grid condition is the fastest
shell glen
It seemed like you wanted to show a special fx or something on whichever player ...
Ah, you're right, that's probably what was meant
left mirage
my desired use case is as follow:
- 30k people are staring to play
- on 20 will be visible to each player and it determined by proximiy (so they come and go)
- this also limits the amount of data, bandwidth and processing required from both client and serve
- client just see what it needs to see.
shell glen
Ah, yep, you will want to use the observer system for that then
latent vessel
You're never going to hit 30K ppl on a single server but either way your best perf option is the grid condition, which will do that.
left mirage
whats the max you saw? we just pass position data
latent vessel
300-400 no issues. 3d mmo
gotta find a game that actually has that many players first lol
go with the grid condition. it does what you want and its very performant. it even auto adjusts based on ccu.
left mirage
ok, 300-400 whats the server spec?
latent vessel
no idea sorry. I know a $5 server can handle 300 ccu though
left mirage
no idea sorry. I know a $5 server can handle 300 ccu though
how did you calculate it? I'll need to test it.