How to make actor physics replication work with medium ping

[anonymous_user_8f6e4946]

If the server is authoritative over everything, then it becomes simpler because, as you said, then it’s just replicating the movement of the cube. There should be no problem with the server pushing it as long as your character is telling the server to push the cube (applying the force of the player velocity to the cube on the server, or whatever method you have for moving it).

There would be a small delay between the client’s character pushing the cube and it actually moving, but you could hide that delay with an animation on the client end (character puts his shoulder against the cube, etc).

Maybe I am misunderstanding, but the issue that I get with that is that the client player is unable to push physics objects (or he pushes them very slowly) because on the client he tries to push it, but it doesn’t move (because physics is only simulated on the server), which means his velocity is zero pushing against it, which means on the server is velocity is zero, therefore the cube won’t be pushed forward.

Basically there is no way for him to push into the cube when the cube is being set to the servers position, because the server is always behind the client’s actions. Client pushes cube, can’t do it so his velocity becomes zero, zero velocity on the server results in the cube not being pushed.