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Creating a Cross-Platform Multiplayer Game in Unity — Part 4

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In this final part of the series, you will deal with clients sending messages out of order and the various ways on how to deal with them.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/2011-creating-a-cross-platform-multiplayer-game-in-unity-part-4
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Hello!

Thanks a lot for making this tutorial. I have an issue though that i was hoping i could get some help on. I’ve been having a lot of issues over the last few days trying to get my animations to be viewable by both clients (on android devices) when i get a multiplayer game started. I’ve managed to get the code working so that the left and right movement of my player character is visible on both devices. But when i try to play an animation of the character (which is done by clicking a button), the animation is only viewable on one screen and not the other. What’s odd to me though is that my idle animation (an animation i have set as the default) works on both screens, which i don’t quite understand. Also note that my character is divided up into several pieces (ex… a head, torso, upper leg, lower leg, etc) which each have their own rigidbody and box2dcollider, and i put them all together like a skeleton as children of a parent object which groups them and allows me to move each individual piece to create my own animations right from unity. Again, the problem is that i just can’t get each of these animations to play on both screens. I was hoping to get some help on this, as it has stumped for days. I’m kind of a beginner to this networking stuff so I’d appreciate the help. Thanks!

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When you trigger the animation on one device, the other device has no clue it is occurring. So the first device must tell the other that X animation needs to start happening. So instead of using an U or F in this example for Update / Finish, you create your own abbreviation (a for animate?) and send the update.

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Thank you todd , i was searching for a good tutorial for google multiplayer .

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Thank you Sir , for a beautiful and informative tutorial. Sir, i am developing a card game similar to hold em poker. i have to ask that

  1. how can i easily integrate Facebook friends for matchmaking while using google play services…??
    2.What you think about Gamesparks and photon…??
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One question when we restart game after game over then no data sending if sending then after few seconds ? what’s problem?

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This tutorial is more than six months old so questions are no longer supported at the moment for it. We will update it as soon as possible. Thank you! :]