VisualPinball.Engine VS com.unity.netcode.gameobjects

If there are any pinhead game devs out there, we're still working on the next generation of Visual Pinball, called VPE[1].

However, given the current drama around Unity, we're currently looking into Godot to evaluate how much effort it would take to port, and how Godot will support our needs.

[1] https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine

Pinball on computers is thriving too.

Visual Pinball X ("VPX", see https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?app=downloads&showcat=51) runs community authored recreated tables with ROMs dumped from the hardware. The physics engine has good performance and authenticity.

Another project, Visual Pinball Engine, ported the C++-based physics engine to Unity (https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine) through its DOTS & "HPC#" (C# with manual memory management extensions) approach. Unity adoption means you can play high fidelity tables right in your browser (https://appmana.com/watch/pinball).

Then there's commercial platforms like Pinball FX and people building VPX rendering in VR.

It's maybe the biggest simulation scene I know of. The community fills many niches. Rigs of Rods & Beam.ng for the idea, "Microsoft Flight Simulator, but for cars." XMage & Spellsource for "Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone but you write your own cards." Unreal Engine for Fortnite is a big entry for the open world community authored content dominated by Minecraft, with submarine stuff like Facepunch's S&box (think Garry's Mod 2.0) coming up.

No it's just a modernising of the engine and gfx for modern machines. a lot of the VPX devs and table makers are actively helping create VPE as it's an open source project on github. https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine

We're developing this: https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine/

Shameless plug, we're working on a next-gen pinball simulator called Visual Pinball Engine[1]. It's free and open source, using Unity, and will eventually support importing FP's table format.

It's still WIP, but we've put a lot of focus on tooling, so anyone can easily create tables.

Quick video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CfZImFl1ME

[1] https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine

We've been working on an open source pinball framework for Unity for a while now, in case you're interested: https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine

Documentation: https://docs.visualpinball.org/ Repository: https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine Screenshots: https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine/wiki/Unity-Screenshots

There was this issue: Custom Serialization can't be used because of compile-time error in RPCs. · Issue #665 · Unity-Technologies/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects (github.com) and this one Error in editor ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added · Issue #714 · Unity-Technologies/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects (github.com) Though I guess there has been many changes on Network for GameObjects since then.

Ok so while writing this I went and found in the github project for the netcode gameobjects an example of grabbing an item, have a look~ https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects/blob/develop/testproject/Assets/Scripts/GrabbableBall.cs

Netcode for GO: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects

Turns out downgrading Netcode for Gameobjects from 1.0.1 to 1.0.0 is the solution for this. Here's the link for the working version of Netcode: Netcode v1.0.0

Steam Networking (I used Unity therefore, this was also very helpful: Facepunch Steamworks / MLAPI)

This is in NetworkTransform line 360 in the Unity Netcode https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects/blob/9ffd22b158fbac5ea824cb7e9e237d2d8b782ed0/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects/Components/NetworkTransform.cs

I bet you're using Mirror. I peeked at their code base (and Unity's new netcode project) and decided to write my own networking framework instead. It sucks to be stuck with problems that someone else created.

I think they rebranded it to netcode for gameobjects. Github repo seems to update daily: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects

E.g. We just released Boss Room, our new multiplayer sample game. It is built using our experimental version of MLAPI, the mid-level netcode Unity acquired last year. MLAPI is fully open-source under a MIT license. We're continuing to develop it in the open, taking both RFCs and PRs from the community. More info can be found both on our GitHub page and Multiplayer Docs site. https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.multiplayer.mlapi https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/ Best wishes!