Netcode for Entities 1.11.0 released

Multiplayer & Networking Netcode for Entities
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:package: Netcode for Entities 1.11.0 is now live! :package:

Key Updates in This Release

This release contains multiple performance and stability improvements along with some host migration usability improvements.

Added

  • New Prefab List menu item and playmode tools button to quickly list all ghost prefabs in your project or scene hierarchy.

  • Internal changes to support GameObject ghosts. More to come later. See Discussions post talking more about this work in progress.

  • [Potential Breaking Change] Moving server side’s ghost spawn writes from BeginFrame ECB to new PresentationGroup ECB.

  • [Potential Breaking Change] GhostAuthoringComponent’s content has been moved to a base class.

  • Netcode profiler received new tooltips and warning icons. These will show if compression efficiency is low or the snapshot size is approaching max message size.

  • Static ghosts now aggressively attempt to avoid looking up snapshot data (via SnapshotData.GetDataAtTick) inside the GhostUpdateSystem.UpdateJob, and the job itself early outs if there are no ghosts needing to restore, leading to a ~90% reduction in job timings. Profiler markers have also been added to this job, denoting which ghost types (and API calls) are taking the time.

  • Users can now migrate non ghost data using the IncludeInMigration component and the associated NonGhostMigrationComponents buffer.

  • Non-Ghost Components marked for migration on a Ghost Entity will now be automatically migrated to the correct Ghost.

Changed

  • Corrected ghost-types-templates docs regarding the packed vs unpacked format of bool, byte, sbyte, float, and double.

  • Improved the bool serialization template, improving packed and unpacked costs (~4 bits to 1 bit, and 32 bits to 8 bits, respectively).

Fixed

  • An issue with static optimized ghosts, where incorrect logic in the GhostUpdateSystem caused them to not have their CopyFromSnapshot called even once in rare cases, which led to [GhostFields] like StaticAsteroid.SpawnTick (which need additional processing via the CopyFromSnapshot code-gen) to be incorrect on the client.

  • NetworkEndpoint serialization inside GhostField’s, which were mistakenly using SerializeNetworkEndpointUnpacked in a packed case.

  • Missing average per entity column for per ghost type overhead sections in the profiler.

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