NAF Entity Saver is a patch of the Networked Aframe (NAF) entity manager class that will take ownership and rebroadcast entities of another user when they leave the room. The entity manager class is what manages entities with the networked component.
This plugin is intended to be used for sandbox apps, where users create entities that you might want to save for future visitors. Some apps such as A-Painter don't use the networked component, and will require a different plugin to persist entities.
NAF Entity Saver just needs to be included in your source code, and it will automatically patch NAF.
Run in your project root
npm install naf-entity-saver
Include in your source code
require('naf-entity-saver');The networked-aframe package will automatically be required as a dependency
Include the following after NAF
<script src="https://unpkg.com/naf-entity-saver"></script>NAF Entity Saver seems to reload its own networked entities when a user leaves the room. This will cause strange behavior if the client using the entity saver has a networked entity with spawning logic or other unique behavior. For now, I recommend making a client that loads your assets, but does not contain any of its own entities.
You can try out NAF Entity Saver on glitch at naf-entity-saver.glitch.me. I will try to have a process running the saver client, but if avatars are not saving when players leave, you will need to load it yourself. You can load the saver client here.
Feel free to remix naf-entity-saver.
At this stage, NAF Entity Saver is still a prototype. It patches internal classes of NAF that could change in 3.0. It also is not well tested, so use with caution. Let me know if you're interested, and I can look into this project more robust.