How do I fire remote events faster than 20 times per second?

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#21

Because you are setting the network ownership to each player and you keep updating it 60 times a second. I would suggest using network ownership but also do something else instead of updating it 60 times a second, like maybe lerping (Advanced Roblox Scripting Tutorial #12 - Lerp / Lerping (Beginner to Pro 2019) - YouTube) the object or tweening (TweenService | Roblox Creator Documentation) it.

#22

Since if Network Ownership is set on a character, the character will appear to lag since inputs are sent to the server and the character movement is sent back to the client (which takes time to do).

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#23

Here is your answer, @UnboundedFury. Good luck with your game! :smiley:

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#24

Thank you so much! I’ll try these things out and see how they do. I knew I was missing something.

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#25

I checked and my character’s arms already have network ownership set to my player. Arm movement is not seen by other players. I guess network ownership doesn’t work? Or am I doing something wrong?

#26

Could you show me a video and also is it on the server? The network ownership isn’t to move stuff, its to give network ownership meaning to give “ownership.”

#27

I only move stuff on the client. To get arm movement to show to other players, I send the arm’s new position to the server, then the server sends the position to every other player, and each player updates my character’s arm position from a local script. I look up online and it says that properties of parts don’t replicate with network ownership, so I’ll try using the TweenService instead. I’ll replicate arm positions maybe every 10th of a second and then use the TweenService to make the arm move smoothly instead of jumping to its new position.

#28

Ok, I got it set up, but it still looks a bit laggy. Now, even player movement looks laggy on the server.

#29

I give up. Roblox is supposed to be simple in theory, but there’s so much behind-the-scenes stuff that makes it a huge pain to develop and debug code. I’ve wasted so much time trying to implement something that shouldn’t even be hard to do on another game engine.

#30

It would be nice to see a video of what you mean. :frowning:

#31

I could post a video, but I’m not even sure if that will resolve the problem. Roblox is weird because sometimes player movement looks super smooth when I look at other players moving around, and other times it looks choppy like they’re moving at 30 fps. It does this randomly even when I test the game. So glitchy and frustrating. I’m an impatient person, and I guess game dev is not for me. Or maybe I need to switch to Unity or Unreal or something.

#32

This is because the other players control their characters meaning there comes the problem of their internet being too laggy to look smooth.

#33

Ok, sorry for being so discouraged. I messed around some more with my code and I found that sending the remote event every 10th of a second and then tweening in between events makes it look smooth. I’m not sure why this won’t work when sending every 20th of a second and tweening in between events. Here is my code, btw.

-- LocalScript inside StarterCharacterScripts
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")

local remoteEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")

local sendRate = 1/10

remoteEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(sender, transform)
	spawn(function()
		local tweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(sendRate, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut)
		local goal = {Transform = transform}
		local tween = TweenService:Create(sender.Character.Torso["Right Shoulder"], tweenInfo, goal)
		tween:Play()
	end)
	
end)

local localPlayer = Players.LocalPlayer

local mouse = localPlayer:GetMouse()
local character = script.Parent
local torso = character:WaitForChild("Torso")
local rightArm = character:WaitForChild("Right Arm")
local rightShoulder = torso:WaitForChild("Right Shoulder")

start = os.clock()
RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	local angle = math.asin((mouse.Hit.Position - mouse.Origin.Position).Unit.Y)
	if os.clock() - start >= sendRate then
		remoteEvent:FireServer(CFrame.Angles(0, 0, angle) * CFrame.Angles(0, 0, math.deg(-90)))
		start = os.clock()
	end
end)


-- ServerScript inside ServerScriptService

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local remoteEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")

remoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(sender, transform)
	for index, player in pairs(Players:GetChildren()) do
		if player.Name == sender.name then
			remoteEvent:FireClient(player, sender, transform)
		end
	end
end)

For testing purposes, I’m making input only work through remote events lol. That way, I can test with only one player in the game. There is a bit of a delay when moving the mouse, but this makes it easier to test than opening a server and having 2 players in the game every time I change something and need to test my code.

#34

It would definitely be similar or harder if you go for a server-client network architecture.

#35

Yeah, this is a big pain, but at least I finally got it working! Sending remotes 10 times a second to pass the player’s arm position seems to look the smoothest. There’s a bit of a delay, but when the arm moves, it looks good! Thank you all for the help!

#36

Yay! Im happy that you finally got it working! :slight_smile:
Good luck on your journey!