LobbyManager Methods

Connects this user to a GameLift sever

Adds text to the error text, allowing the user to know if an error occurred during connection

Adds a player to the match

Adds a potential game session to the available session screen as a button to select and thus join with

Allows users to ready up

When the servers are down, this function will ping them every 30 seconds until a connection can occur.

Allows a button's interactability to be changed on the main Unity thread

Looks for an available port for the android device to use by attempting a connection to it

Checks if the username the user entered is currently being used by another user. If it is - then they are prompted to enter a different username. If not, they can then host or find a session to join.

Sets the UI panel to the available sessions screen, destroys any old matches found, and searches for new matches

Sets the UI panel to the HostMenu screen

Connects to a GameLift server

Destroys any match options locally so that they are not repeated to the user

Finds an available UDP port on the user's end to receive UDP messages on. It should be noted that this function cannot be called on Android, and therefore, only 1 port is available on Android, the default UDP port of 33400. If this port is not available, then that Android device will not be able to receive UDP messages, which ASL does not currently send anyways.

Gets the available scenes that the user can host. Due to limitations on Unity's end, this function is only useful if it is being called inside the editor. In order to see your scene when running an EXE version, you must edit the AvailableScenes dropdown menu to include (or exclude) the scenes you want.

Goes back to the last UI screen and cleans anything up that may have happened on the current UI screen

Triggers the HostLambda function, allowing a user to host a game session

Initializes all of the UI elements that will be used in the lobby scene

Hosts a game via a lambda function for the user

Invokes the join session lambda function that allows this user to a join a selected game session

Invokes the lambda function that locks the game session

Invokes the QuickConnect lambda function which looks for a game, if none found, then creates a game for the user. Allowing them to bypass the host/search for game method

Invokes the lambda function that searches for available game sessions

Checks if the username the user entered is currently in any game sessions and if so, does not allow that username to be used again. By default, this lambda function will also set the desired active instances of the fleet being used to 1. It will do this regardless if the instance is already at 1 or if its at 0. This is because after no users after 30 minutes, the instance auto scales down to 0.

Join the currently selected match

Joins a game session

Locks the game session, preventing any other users from joining it

Is called when a player joins the match

Reduces the number of screens a user has to go through in order to connect to a match

Indicates that the user is ready for the first scene to being loading

Clears any error text

Triggers the search for available game sessions lambda function

Returns to the previous UI screen, triggered by hitting the back button

Sets the UI panel to be displayed to the user

Sets the game name to be displayed to users

Changes the value of the QuickConnect flag

This function starts the scene by assigning all UI elements and is manually called by GameLiftManager's Start function as this class is not a MonoBehavior class and can't be.

Used to start the auto connect coroutine

Updates the chat log based on the message received

Updates the connection status text based on the current connection status

Updates the lobby screen to show any new players

Is called to update any new comers of who this user is

Updates other users of this user's presence in the lobby

Updates the username of the user based on the username they selected