Crate lightyear

Lightyear is a networking library for Bevy. It is designed for server-authoritative multiplayer games; and aims to be both feature-complete and easy-to-use.

You can find more information in the book!

Modules

• channel
  Channels are used to add reliability/ordering on top of the transport layer
• client
  The Client bevy resource
• connection
  A connection is a wrapper that lets us send message and apply replication
• inputs
• netcode
  Netcode.io protocol to establish a connection on top of an unreliable transport
• packet
  Module to group messages into packets
• prelude
  Prelude containing commonly used types
• protocol
  The Protocol is used to define all the types that can be sent over the network
• serialize
  Serialization and deserialization of types
• server
  Defines the Server bevy resource
• shared
  Shared code between the server and client.
• transport
  Provides an abstraction over an unreliable transport The transport layer is responsible for sending and receiving raw byte arrays packets through the network.
• utils
  Extra utilities Contains a set of useful utilities

Macros

• protocolize
  This macro is used to build the Protocol struct. For convenience, it will re-export some types that need to have the Protocol as a generic parameter, so that you don’t have to type <MyProtocol> everywhere. Notably: