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Hi guys,
I'm trying to send a few AtlasSprites to another instance of my game running on another iphone, but I'm having some trouble on how to achieve this the correct way (or a working way ;).
I thought of writing the AtlasSprites to a new texture file (they can belong to different files originally) and then send that new file. Any other ideas?
Steve Oldmeadow
Administrator
Can you explain more about what you are doing? Are the AtlasSprites based on user generated content and therefore the image data needs to be transferred?
My game is dynamically generating puzzles, showing them as a 3x3 grid of images. These images may or may not exist in other instances of the game so, for multiplayer games, I would need to send these images to other connected devices. In the server Instance they exist as atlas sprites that, in the end, I would like to see transfered across.
As these 9 images can belong to 9 diferent atlasspritemanagers, from 9 different files, best case scenario I would like to access the atlassprite data and send it. Worst case, create a new texture with 9 images and send that. Any ideas/other options?
Thanks
Codemattic
Moderator
Not sure about the transfer problem - but maybe it will be easier to use regular Sprites instead of an AtlasSpriteManager. With 9 sprites I dont think you will see any speedup from using an AtlasSpriteManager, and it will be easier to manage the images if they dont have to be combined.
Yeah, but the images are already in the iPhone, as atlas.
Hmmm, thanks, I'll check that.
Thanks :)
Steve Oldmeadow
Administrator
I would send the nine smaller images over separately and then use a RenderTexture to reassemble them on the game client. The reason being if there is any failure in transfer you need to resend much less data than if you send the whole texture to the client.
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