DeltaVR/Assets/Fish-Networking-Discovery-main/README.md

Fish-Networking-Discovery

A very simple LAN network discovery component for Fish-Networking (Asset Store | GitHub)

Getting Started (GUI)

1. Download the code in this repo as a zip
2. Extract the code inside your project folder (FISH-NETWORKING MUST BE ALREADY INSTALLED)
3. Create an empty game object
4. Add a NetworkManager component to the game object you just created
5. Add a NetworkDiscovery component to the game object you just created
6. Set the secret, port, and discoveryInterval fields
7. Add a NetworkDiscoveryHUD component
8. Enter play mode
   • If you want to begin advertising a server
     1. Press "Start" under the "Server" group
     2. Press "Start" under the "Advertising" group
   • If you want to stop advertising a server
     • Press "Stop" under the "Advertising" group
   • If you want to begin searching for servers
     • Press "Start" under the "Searching" group
   • If you want to stop searching for servers
     • Press "Stop" under the "Searching" group

Getting Started (Code)

1. Download the code in this repo as a zip
2. Extract the code inside your project folder (FISH-NETWORKING MUST BE ALREADY INSTALLED)
3. Create an empty game object
4. Add a NetworkManager component to the game object you just created
5. Add a NetworkDiscovery component to the game object you just created
6. Set the secret, port, and discoveryInterval fields
7. Enter play mode
   • If you want begin advertising a server
     1. Call InstanceFinder.ServerManager.StartConnection()
     2. Call FindObjectOfType<NetworkDiscovery>().StartAdvertisingServer()
   • If you want to stop advertising a server
     • Call FindObjectOfType<NetworkDiscovery>().StopAdvertisingServer()
   • If you want to start searching for servers
     • Call FindObjectOfType<NetworkDiscovery>().StartSearchingForServers()
   • If you want to stop seaching for servers
     • Call FindObjectOfType<NetworkDiscovery>().StopSearchingForServers()

Planned Features

• Automatically start/stop advertising server
• Automatically remove servers that are no longer alive
• Introduce Unity coroutines for all NetworkDiscovery methods