If i made a map for my current single player game, can I transfer it to a Online game?

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Title pretty much said it all, :frowning:
I’m a total beginner that have big dreams :frowning:

Sorry if this question sounds stupid:(

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… I guess? … Not sure what you mean, if you are talking about the model of the map, yeah… I suppose… I’m kinda confused here…

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What kind of game?

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a MMO type game,

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Uhh… More details please? O_o

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Nothing is impossible in programming.

Also, use more of these: :slight_smile:

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Someone that feels like me at least

And I don’t think this post is especially related to programming in any means… I feel like the OP doesn’t know anything about unity yet or any other engine at all.

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In that case it’s important to start and finish the single player game first and just assume nothing is impossible. No reason to ponder about these kind of forward-compatibility decisions and no reason to ask for more details.

edit: forgot to add a smiley. :slight_smile:

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:slight_smile: ?

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Yeah, that’s pretty good :slight_smile: Positive thinking :slight_smile:

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( Smile mask syndrome - Wikipedia )

EDIT :slight_smile:

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Hmm that’s interesting. Even at the place I had worked, I had to constantly smile at our potential customers. This got incredibly annoying since I had to smile even when I was in a tetchy, irritative mood. Thanks for the link.

EDIT: :slight_smile:

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To the OP, you will find the answers to your questions beyond this link.

:slight_smile: (Since everyone else is doing the smiley dance.)

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An mmo eh? Should have guessed. Good luck :slight_smile:

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Can I just join in? Good luck :slight_smile:

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:smile:

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I wonder if the late Robin Williams also suffered from the Smile Mask Syndrome. :eyes:

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I don’t think anyone has answered this guys question, and I won’t be able to either. I hope someone can though, because I have the same question.

I’m building an RTS right now and have been for about 2 years now. I would like to know if it’s possible to make my currently single player RTS into a multiplayer RTS even after my code-base is written and all the features of my game are fully completed?

Multiplayer mystifies me to a certain extent – and I think the biggest thing is that I havn’t had time to dig into the details of networking, as I’ve spent all of my time learning how to even make an RTS game at all – much less network it to make multiplayer happen.

Does anyone know if it is feasible?

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You CAN do it, but it’ll be a total nightmare, especially for things that are synchronisation heavy, like an RTS

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The question is way too undefined to answer. For starters, what is a “map”? Is it a JPG picture that represents an area? Is it a grid of values? A height map? A mesh? A scene?

And then there’s of course the question about what the game is and what it has to do with the map.

If a map is a scene, and the game doesn’t have to do anything non-trivial with the scene, then there’s a good chance that you can just move it to a project for an online game as a Unity Package, import it and be on your merry way. If your map in any way does or uses anything that’s not out-of-the-box with Unity it could well be a different matter.