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.