Hello, I am working on a Mulitplayer Tower Defense style game and currently I have my enemy positions handled on the server (Tweening them from one point to another) And when handling a lot of enemies (100) it starts to lag. I need to know the exact location of my enemy for my tower attack checks to work, so I can’t just play all tweens on the client because then the enemy positions won’t replicate to the server.
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Since this isn’t exactly something that has to be super accurate would playing all of my tweens on the client and just firing a remote event for the server to damage that npc be a good option?
(im not sure how this would work if a player is experiencing ping)
This is my first project where I have to take in account a lot of server-client communication so im sorry if something makes no sense or is just a bad idea
Also theres a lot of posts on making an entity system, you could have the server do lerp and do a simple alpha equation and send the info to the client and update the cframe.
What I would do is store all enemies on the server with the information you need. For this example lets just do position only. I would send a remote event as often as you can, maybe using a heartbeat, though how you do that is up to you. Something like this possibly?
--> Server Side
local Enemies: {{cf: CFrame}} = {} --> Table of enemies
local UpdateRemote: RemoteEvent = --> RemoteEvent Location
--> Loop here
UpdateRemote:FireAllClients(Enemies)
--> Client Side
local UpdateRemote: RemoteEvent = --> RemoteEvent Location
UpdateRemote.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(enemies)
--> Loop through enemies and tween them to the their new positions
for _, enemyInfo in enemies do
local NewCFrame: CFrame = enemyInfo.cf
--> Get Model and Tween to new CFrame
end
end)
