The benet module for Godot is a fork of NetworkedMultiplayerPacketPeer (although it stays compatible) to allow access to multiple channels and the ability to run multiple clients/servers in the same scene.

The module is composed by two parts:

• ENetPacketPeer: The fork of NetworkedMultiplayerPacketPeer

  • create_server: Add parameter to specify max channels (default 1)
  • create_client: Add parameter to specify max channels (default 1)
  • put_packet_channel: New method, allow to put a packet in the specified channel
  • send (_unreliable, _ordered) allow to send to specific client in reliable, unreliable, ordered way whlie selecting the channel
  • broadcast (_unreliable, _ordered) allow to broadcast a packet in a reliable, unreliable, ordered way while selecting the channel

• ENetNode: Act like SceneTree:

  • Poll on idle/fixed time (must be in tree to work!)
  • Emit signals on idle/fixed time (must be in tree to work!)
  • Emit additional server_packet and client_packet signals when receiving packets
  • Allow kicking clients by unique id.
  • Will hopefully support RPC in the future

Being a module you will need to recompile godot from source. To do that:

1. Clone the godot engine repository
2. Copy the benet folder from this repository into the godot modules folder
3. Recompile godot (see https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/reference/_compiling.html )

For usage examples please refer to the project in the demo folder.

The methods should be self explainatory.

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