We’re developing a large scale simulation with many (hundreds) of participating Unreal Clients in a local trusted network. The large number of clients is mainly due to rendering multiple views per player. We expect at least a thousand replicated actors in one world, replicating at least their current transform. So far we’re using Unreal replication with the default net driver. We mainly use push model property replication. Our concern is that this doesn’t scale well for our use case because the server maintains a separate connection to each client. Since we’re in a local network, UDP multicast seems like the natural choice for our use case. While other optimizations might help, broadcasting each change instead of sending it to each client would make by far the biggest difference.
Is there any way, even if its complicated, of using UDP multicast with the replication system? We know it’s not just a matter of configuration but if a custom NetDriver could do it for example, we might explore that option.
If we can’t use the replication system, are there other approaches we should consider besides writing all replication ourselves?
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