Sending cframe every 4 times every two frames, to the server using remotes

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#1

The reason Im doing this 4 bullets with spread are fired every two frames.

Each bullet is simulated on the server using raycasting for hit detection, without a model acting as the hitbox. The client sends the direction and the startingcframe of the bullet. These thing is created when a client fires a remote event to the server, with sanity checks upcourse. The client also makes its own bullet raycasting for visuals, for example when hit destory the bullet.

Right now I can handle this, and it works fine with 3 people, i’m just wondering if theres more performant way to do this.

I know I could just send a table of 4 bullet datas to the server, but here :

it clearly says the amount of times sent doesn’t matter, but the amount of data sent does, any compression formulas, ect would be helpful.

#2
  1. You could use string.pack to pack the data into binary, but I also don’t know that you will beat roblox’s own protocol.
  2. You probably don’t need to, that’s not a ton of data. Probably just keep doing what you’re doing until it becomes an issue.

This is a cool article about physics that you might wanna read as well.

#3

Thanks for the information i’ll come back once I read it.

#4

A thing I found intresting was Deterministic Lockstep, if you don’t mind could you point me guides or tutoials which cover this topic?

I don’t think it would work out well on roblox though, do you know any alternatives?

#5

Yeah that article goes a little too in depth for roblox. The section about how they compress data is probably the most interesting.

Unless you’re simulating your own physics (which I don’t recommend), you don’t have that fine of control. Best you can do is to send as little data as possible.