I wanted to make a small shooter game where you can break walls or parts of buildings, so I wanted to know what is the current state of this feature specifically for multiplayer.
I could barely find any information on that topic. I found some 4 year old videos showing replication of chaos events in some demo, and also a 6 year old video of syncing physics events between client and server.
So I was wondering if someone knows, are these kinds of things are possible and what kind of limitations does the engine currently have.
They are probably individually simulated on each client and the pieces end up wherever.
In multiplayer that can likely be an issue, since if a player takes cover behind the debrie they will likely be in full view of some other player where the simulation went different.
Its essentially impossible to get the geometry cache to replicate - not because its impossible per se, but because you need to transmit and sync data of the transform of all of the cache objects.
More objects = more data = less accuracy = more lag.
That doesn’t mean epic hasnt added the option though - they do a lot of more boneheaded things.
You need to pull whatever copy of the engine you want to use and check.
However, just know that using Chaos makes your “game” nearly unplayable in terms of accuracy and performance, even for single player.
You are probably better off building from source with PhysX and making your own replicated geometry chace system for destructibles.
For a small game, to get around the problem just don’t simulate.
Every wall breaks the exact same way using a dedicated alembic file… this way, Everyone sees the exact same thing…
Suggest looking at what’s on the Marketplace to start. Also research everything available about related games. Teams of people often spend years working on games like The Finals. As anything with physics and multiplayer is always super tricky. You can also bump threads or DM devs in related threads. Otherwise you may not get answers here (as the UE forums are mostly for Fortnite noobs now).
As anything with physics and multiplayer is always super tricky. You can also bump threads or DM devs in related threads. Otherwise you may not get answers here (as the UE forums are mostly for Fortnite noobs now).