Unity 5.1 is out

FanieG

Don't know if this has been mentioned elsewhere on the forum yet, but Unity 5.1 is out. It has a really cool Networking API that makes multiplayer a lot easier to create. Also fixed a bunch of bugs, especially weird stuff that was happening in the Animator and which was driving me nuts. I watched a couple of tutorials on the networking stuff and it really does make things a lot easier to understand to noobs like myself. Creating multiplayer stuff doesn't seem half as scary as it used to.

konman

Thanks Fanie, I grabbed this version as soon as it landed specifically to check out the new UNET stuff...

This awesome tutorial shows just how quickly and easily one can add networking capabilities that deals with latency issues using interpolation to smooth out your players movement and rotations during online play...

FanieG

@konman thanks for that link, that looks super informative. This one is a nice quick playaround (about an hour)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Nfg9mQRw

The unite 2014 video also had a cool section on the networking stuff