Transports

EOS Transport

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The EOS Transport lets you use Epic Online Services as a transport layer for PurrNet. It runs P2P, with no relay to host through and no extra glue. Drop it on your NetworkManager and PurrNet rides on top of EOS.

This is the official PurrNet EOS Transport. There is also a community version maintained separately.

Installation

The easiest way is to open Tools / PurrNet / PurrNet Packages and hit install on EOS Transport. One click and you're done.

If you'd rather pull it in by hand, open Unity's Package Manager, click Add package from git URL, and paste one of these.

Stable:

https://github.com/PurrNet/PurrNetEOSTransport.git?path=/Assets/EOSTransport#release

Latest in-development:

https://github.com/PurrNet/PurrNetEOSTransport.git?path=/Assets/EOSTransport#dev

You can also pin to a specific tag with #v1.0.0 (or whatever the latest tag is) instead of a branch.

You'll also need the PlayEveryWare EOS Plugin. Same flow, Package Manager, Add package from git URL:

https://github.com/PlayEveryWare/eos_plugin_for_unity_upm.git

That gives you the EOS SDK and EOSManager. The transport's runtime code is gated by a versionDefine on com.playeveryware.eos, so it only compiles once the plugin is in.

Then set up your Epic dev account and product credentials under Tools / EOS Plugin / EOS Configuration.

Usage

  1. Add the EOSTransport component to your NetworkManager.
  2. Set socketName to any string. Both peers just need to agree on it.
  3. On the client, set remoteProductUserId to the host's EOS Product User ID before connecting.
  4. Call NetworkManager.StartServer() to host, NetworkManager.StartClient() to join.

If you call StartClient() on the same NetworkManager that's already hosting, it short-circuits to in-process delivery instead of going through EOS. Host loopback, no extra wiring.

https://github.com/PurrNet/PurrNetEOSTransport