BridgeNet2, v1.0.0 | A blazing fast networking library for Roblox

[Yuruzuu]

Will BridgeNet2 support unreliable remote events in the future?

[IISato (Sato)]

Can’t wait for BridgeNet to support Unreliable Events (Hopefully)

On a separate note…

Heres a quick function I made to be able to delete Identfiers:
(I wasn’t too sure how Identifiers worked, but I think this will correctly remove them, I tried to cover every basis)

-- In 'src'

RemoveIdentifier = if isServer then Server.removeIdentifier else nil,

-- In "Server"

function Server.removeIdentifier(name: string)
	return ServerIdentifiers.remove(name)
end

-- In "ServerIdentifiers"


function ServerIdentifiers.remove(identifierName: Types.Identifier)

	if fullIdentifierMap[identifierName] ~= nil then

		identifierCount -= 1
		identifierStorage:SetAttribute(identifierName, nil)

		fullIdentifierMap[identifierName] = nil

		for Name: string, Id: string in pairs(compressedIdentifierMap) do

			if Id == identifierName then 

				identifierStorage:SetAttribute(compressedIdentifierMap[Name], nil)

				compressedIdentifierMap[Name] = nil


			end
		end

	elseif compressedIdentifierMap[identifierName] ~= nil then

		local IdentifierName = compressedIdentifierMap[identifierName]

		identifierCount -= 1

		identifierStorage:SetAttribute(identifierName, nil)
		identifierStorage:SetAttribute(IdentifierName, nil)

		fullIdentifierMap[identifierName] = nil
		fullIdentifierMap[IdentifierName] = nil

		compressedIdentifierMap[identifierName] = nil

	else

		Output.warn('No Identifier exists with that string when trying to remove')

	end

end

[ffrostfall]

I’ve got plans for that dw, I’ve started development but I need buffers to release first

[IISato (Sato)]

Do you think you could add this in your next update?

And maybe a setting to toggle off all output logs?

[Scriptifi (scriptifyy)]

When approximately are you planning on releasing this? Since i was on releasing the new update with UmreliableRemoteEvents along with my christmas update.

[StarJ3M]

@ffrostfall

It cuts out header data from RemoteEvent calls by 7 bytes, which is beneficial because it cuts down on the total number of packets per player. This in turn decreases server bandwidth used, so you can send more data. Games using BridgeNet2 will never hit the RemoteEvent throttle limit. BridgeNet2 also decreases the amount of time to process packets on the client by approximately 75-80%.

What are bytes? I’ve seen a class called that before but I’ve never known what it does. What are packets? And what is the RemoteEvent throttle limit?

[ADRENALXNE (Dev1n)]

I’m just getting in to the nitty-gritty of networking. That being said, wouldn’t setting Roblox’s Signal Behavior to Deferred essentially do the same batching that this library does?

[zak_isla (zAk)]

can you update the documentation and make the tutorial more clear, when i try to call FireTo it doesn’t show and I’ve required the module properly.

[IISato (Sato)]

@ffrostfall Bro you need to cook on the next bridgenet2 update for unreliable events, or else FastNet is gonna continue cooking with no competition.

[M0N0RAIL_2 (BobTheBuilder)]

i for some reasons get better performance with… normal remotes?

[Katrist]

Are you testing it correctly? You really shouldn’t be getting better performance with normal remotes.

[M0N0RAIL_2 (BobTheBuilder)]

idk i used the same datas with remotes and bridgenet2

i was sending it every frame, with remotes 5.5recv while with bridgenet2 i had 7 recv

[M0N0RAIL_2 (BobTheBuilder)]

i’m making a tower defense game, and i found that sending remotes like that is far more efficient in therm of recv (no ideas why) than most other methods (ex: sending a remote when a single tower shoots), i basically just send every tower that are attacking in the current frame to the client by like “parenting” each towers id to the enemy id they are going to attack.

here in the image i’m sending it using bridgenet2 which somehow gives me worse recv than using a normal remote (i already said earlier the difference). No idea if it is due to some limit in therm of speed or smth like with remotes

[Katrist]

Have you tried sending arrays instead of dictionaries? I believe that’s where BridgeNet will outperform remotes.

[Sralf_8c]

If there’s a bug with this I’m cooked I wrote my whole game with BridgeNet

[zak_isla (zAk)]

use Warp instead its 40% faster than bridgenet also bridgenet is discontinued i believe.

[Eternity_Devs (EternityDev)]

bridgenet2 is not discontinued, its just the OP (original poster) rarely update or forgot to update it on devforum, but it updates on Discord Server (Roblox OSS Community) & Github.

[zak_isla (zAk)]

ok

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[ffrostfall]

This is still supported, it’s just that there’s not many updates I can do to BridgeNet2.
I released a new networking library named ByteNet that supersedes BridgeNet2 though, based on buffers.

[WhyImPlayingThisBro (CrazyDood)]

Thank you SO MUCH for this networking library. The improvements are HUGE, especially when firing from client to server, its not even CLOSE.

When I was firing 140 blank remotes from client to server each frame, my ping spiked to 9k ms, the sent was about 125kb/s. And after using BridgeNet2 my ping only spiked to like 60ms max, and the sent was only about 40kb/s.