Tasharen Networking

TNet: Tasharen Networking

TNet 3 started off as a networking tool for Unity and has since evolved into a powerful Unity Editor extension.

 

Easy-to-use networking: sending a message is as simple as calling a function.

Built 100% in C# and with its core not relying on Unity at all.

Tiny in size: ~165 kb executable that runs natively on Windows and via Mono on OSX and Linux.

Lightweight server executable can run anywhere. Even Raspberry Pi!

Battle-tested in games on both mobile and desktop platforms.

Powerful Serialization functionality with its DataNode class. Think JSON/XML, but smaller, and capable of natively serializing to/from plain text, binary and LZMA-compressed formats at will.

The same DataNode class can even be used to export entire Game Object hierarchies or prefabs similar to how Asset Bundles work (but with some additional benefits) — for ultimate modding tools.

Variety of built-in handy features, such as DataNode-based player data that automatically syncs across the network (think player inventory), ability to save and load files on the server (server-side player saves), settable per-server and per-channel DataNodes, ban/admin lists, and much, much more.

Various developer tools — from convenience extensions such as object.Invoke(“function”) and object.SetFieldOrPropertyValue(“name”, value), to modding and run-time C# code compilation tools.

Multiplayer is easily scale-able to support many players. When Windward launched, there were over 300 players connected to TNet running on a dev machine off a regular household broadband connection. CPU usage was between 2-4% and memory usage was about 250 MB!

Need more information? Check the Documentation page, or watch the beginner’s tutorial.

 

Licensing

TNet 3 is licensed per-seat, implying one license per developer using it.

An alternative Professional Edition can also be acquired with the added benefit of TNet’s repository access and priority support, granting faster updates and much easier workflow when it comes to modifying it to your needs and still staying up to date. If your company requires a custom agreement signed, you will also need the Professional Edition. If you are interested, please get in touch via the contact form.

 

Unity Version

TNet fully supports both Unity 4 and 5 building for Windows, OSX, Linux and Android. Other platforms may have limitations. iOS may not support some advanced reflection functionality, for example.

TNet does not support Flash builds, and its Web Player support is limited (no UDP for example).