WebRTC integration examples?

[bbmario]

Does anyone know any good examples of WebRTC-based multiplayer in Babylon? Something like different players moving capsules around. Kind of like this:

 

 

Syncing and interpolating, etc.

[tips4design]

Well, I don't thinking syncing and interpolating is really specific to the game framework you use or to the rendering engine. The principles are the same and not really hard to implement (extrapolate locally, interpolate when you receive correct data from the other user/server).

[bbmario]

I didn't mean specific to Babylon, doesn't matter, just using a graphics engine to demonstrate the concept. It could be three.js or anything else. Since Babylon is turning more into a gameframework, with example integrations with physics engines and so on, it makes sense to have a networking example as well.

[jerome]

I would suggest to handle every network communications (ie : high or unpredictable latency compared to the render loop rate) in a dedicated webworker besides the BJS engine thread.

[Dad72]

I agree that would be really great if Babylon added the network in its engine. 

 

@Jerome, I did not understand what you mean.

[JCPalmer]

Also, think putting network checking into the render loop, might not be a good idea.

 

This seems better suited to an extension, since web workers are usually in a different .js file anyway.  Isn't there already a network related extension, scoreboard, that might be use-able / improvable for this purpose?  Or is this peer-to-peer, not client-server?

[tips4design]

I would suggest to handle every network communications (ie : high or unpredictable latency compared to the render loop rate) in a dedicated webworker besides the BJS engine thread.

 

Why would you do that? It sounds like the overhead of transferring data to and from the web worker might cost more than actually computing a simple linear interpolation in the main thread (which is actually a simple division).