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Toggleable warning for reset RealtimeView GUID
It can get quite annoying, with already having an option for disabling no realtimes existing, this would be nice to have as well.
Allow RealtimeView.realtime and RealtimeView.viewUUID to be set from the editor inside prefabs
We have a use case where we want to be able to dynamically spawn a normcore room from a prefab. Unfortunately, the way RealtimeView works requires us to use a scene instead of a prefab. This is because the
realtime and viewUUID fields on RealtimeView are hidden in the inspector when viewing from a prefab. If these were exposed, they wouldn't conflict with other normcore room scene view UUIDs because they would be tied different Realtime instancesShow the property path for RealtimeSet delta update errors
Sometimes I'll get an error from normcore like
RealtimeSet received delta update for non-existent key (2297). Is there any way you could add an optional flag to show the full property path for these kinds of errors? It would make debugging them a lot easierServer Mirroring
For spectator sidecars, if you go beyond the x-large server bandwidth, the only option is to stream twice from the client to multiple connected rooms. This is a janky and resource constraint solution where a mirror would be an elegant fit.
More Connection events
Please implement more connection events, especially failure or error events like 'didConnectToRoomFailed' for example.
Asia Server, Maybe?
I love this networking service so much. But in my country, it is very lagging to play my game.
Control instantiation rate on connection?
So if you have 30-50 rigibodies when connecting to a room there is a pretty heavy duty hiccup. A way to stagger that instantiation burst that was built in would be pretty nice.
peer 2 peer mode
this one is a bit out there but maybe we can get a peer 2 peer mode with the normcore servers acting as lobby and relay only if a direct connection is not possible.
Save server costs while keeping the same codebase....
Add an event for when a whole model is updated after each property is done updating
A common issue people have is that they check the first property update event but find that the 2nd property hasn't been updated yet.
A more useful event would be when the whole model is done updating then you wont get so many noob mistakes....
Possible option to force firing updated model event
Not sure if there are technical difficulties with doing something like this, but to have an event (or maybe just a property setting) that would fire the event if the model was sent an update even if the model didn't change value. This would make it so you could easily use a simple int to continously play various sound effects or trigger various animations from just an int becuase it could keep firing?
Custom update rate for far away models
We have a large scene that has many RealtimeTransforms throughout it, including avatars. We would love to have all models update less frequently if the player if further away from them.
For example, if Ann is on one side of the scene while Bob is on the other, their avatars shouldn't update for each other at all until they get closer. In addition, they shouldn't be streaming each other's audio because they wouldn't be able to hear each other.
You can get around this by sectioning off the scene into smaller rooms but then you increase you room hours and thus increase the cost of Normcore. Not ideal....
Undeprecate IsOwnedX
Just a nitpick, but ownership flags ending in "Self" (i.e. "isOwnedRemotelySelf") was really confusing when I was getting started. I understand the purpose is to differentiate from hierarchal ownership, but hierarchal ownership flags already end with "InHierarchy" (i.e. "isOwnedLocallyInHierarchy") so the distinction already exists. It simply confuses newcomers searching for the proper flag.
Disable Local XR Avatar
It would be nice if there was a tick box to not create a local avatar. If you try to disable the local avatar (destroying or setting inactive) other avatars do not work for some reason. My current solution is looping through the renderers in the local avatar and disabling those.
This is a useful feature in the case you want:
- Your local player to be independent from the avatar system. I wanted models on my local player prefab so that they are visible in single player without the avatar manager.
- Also, it's useful to only have one player 1 running around the scene in multiplayer, instead of one bodyless player 1 and one avatar for player 1....
Let me optionaly pick a server to join
At the moment Normcore pings clusters and picks for me but I want to see all the servers and pick myself.
Maybe you are playing with a friend in another country and want to pick a place in between or maybe certain servers just work better for you.
In any case, more choice and control is better....
player management
Being able to ban people in your game or giving moderators into your game. I’ve been trying to see how to kick people but I don’t know how
Clear a RealtimeArray
I understand that we can't have a remove for a RealtimeArray to avoid race conditions, but clearing the entire array is a very useful operation for this powerful structure! Clearing it would make the structure even better! Let's clean data! 🧹
Overridable Model methods
As the title says, being able to override some model methods by having them be virtual, such as
RequestOwnership, SetOwnership, and ClearOwnership would be very nice as I cannot do this on my own. Yes I know I can abstract them out, but it can be confusing to other's in the project when they see RequestOwnership still available and bypassing perhaps any potential safety checks / additional calls. I believe this should be pretty simple and AFAIK not break anything as the signature would be...Dedicated server option for unlimited?
No idea how technically difficult it is to allow it but even if it was just for data and not audio it could make running AI's considerably easier. And we would be talking about drastically smaller amounts of data than enterprise customers.