ENet and Leadwerks?

[Benji385]

So I just saw a facebook post from Josh that says - "Our Lua debugger, built on the cross-platform ENet networking library, worked perfectly on Linux the first time it was tried."

 

Are we getting Multiplayer/Network support for Leadwerks? or is this just for the LUA debugger?

 

Networking support would be awesome!

[Josh]

Simple networking has actually been built into Leadwerks since the first release, but:

• It's not exposed to Lua.
  
• There's no documentation.
  
• There's no NAT punch-through.
  
• There's no high-level entity synchronization or predictive movement.
  

 

So for those reasons I don't consider it an official supported feature right now.

 

We also have access to the Steam peer-to-peer networking library. This is nice because it allows direct communication between two Steam accounts and automatically manages NAT punch-through, but of course only works in a Steam game.

[Benji385]

Simple networking has actually been built into Leadwerks since the first release, but:

• It's not exposed to Lua.
  
• There's no documentation.
  
• There's no NAT punch-through.
  
• There's no high-level entity synchronization or predictive movement.
  

 

So for those reasons I don't consider it an official supported feature right now.

 

We also have access to the Steam peer-to-peer networking library. This is nice because it allows direct communication between two Steam accounts and automatically manages NAT punch-through, but of course only works in a Steam game.

 

Thanks for the clarification.