Ignorance: A reliable UDP based transport for vis2k's Mirror Unity API. Ignorance uses ENET as the network backend, with nxrighthere's ENet-CSharp wrapper as a layer.
Ignorance relies on ENet-CSharp to do most of the heavy-lifting. I simply hook into the wrapper and perform magic tricks to make it all work.
Ignorance also has a dependency on Mirror which is a battle-tested, improved MMO-scale version of UNET that is leaps and bounds better than what Unity could ever do. Mirror was built against Unity LTS 2017.4 but as long as you have a recent release of Mirror in your project, the Ignorance transport will happily be available as a TransportLayer option. This dependency is required to make use of the TransportLayer class.
- Download the git and compile the project. If errors occur, open a Issue ticket.
- In your Mirror NetworkManager child class, you would do:
public override void InitializeTransport() {
Transport.layer = new IgnoranceTransport();
}...to start using Ignorance as the transport mechanism. The default in Mirror is Telepathy which is TCP. The other out-of-the-box option is Unity's LLAPI but that's like dealing with cancer - Avoid.
- Continue programming your stuff as normal.
Why Ignorance? Why not name it something something Reliable UDP Transport for Mirror something something?
UDP ignores (hence the name) a lot of stuff that TCP fusses over and since UDP is designed to be a scattershot shotgun approach to networking, there's no promises that UDP packets will get from A to B without going through hell and back. This makes since in some usage cases, but you should really consider TCP if you're using networking in a mission-critical environment. There's a reason why big name MMOs use TCP to keep everything in check.