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Connection Problems with Photon 2 in Unity

For this video, I will explain how to fix the problem in Photon where your editor and your standalone create new rooms instead of connecting to each other. This problem is not caused by any errors. Instead, it is only due to both games connecting to different region servers. You can fix this problem by manually connecting to a region while your game is still in development.

Photon Region: https://doc.photonengine.com/en-us/realtime/current/connection-and-authentication/regions

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Syncing Animations with Photon 2 in Unity

Happy New Year it is now 2019 and we are going to start this year off right, with a new Photon 2 tutorial in Unity. Animations are an important part of video games and even multiplayer video games. In this lesson, we will teach you about the Photon Animator View which is used to synchronize animations across the network. Sometimes animations don’t need to be synchronized and sometimes they do. If it doesn’t matter that each player is seeing a different part of animation at different times then the animation does not need to be synchronized. However, if the timing of the animation is critical to the gameplay of the of your game then it will be an animation that you will want to synchronize.

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Custom Matchmaking with Photon 2 in Unity

Part 1

This is the first part of two where we will show you how to create a custom matchmaking feature for a multiplayer game in Unity using the Photon 2 plugin. You will be able to create a lobby and have all the available rooms displayed to the users of your game. Players will then be able to join a room by clicking on it in the list.

Part 2

This is the second part of our Photon tutorial on creating a custom matchmaking feature for a multiplayer game. You can learn how to make your own multiplayer game by watching our many Photon 2 tutorial.

Part 3

This is the third part of our development of a custom matchmaking system. This video will help you fix the problems from the previous videos. After this video, your basic custom matchmaking system will be complete. This tutorial uses the Photon 2 plugin in Unity 3D