Lobby Management in Main Menu¶
Description¶
The “lobby management in main menu” methods handle lobby operations when the player is in the lobby menu. These methods are chiefly listeners for leaving the lobby and changing lobby data events. Separating the lobby management in the menu from the one in the game allows implementing different behaviors in response to the same actions.
Initialization and Termination¶
Listeners for LobbyManagementMainMenu are initialized when the user successfully joins the lobby (on the LobbyEnteredListenerBrowsing.OnLobbyEntered callback), or creates a lobby (on the LobbyCreatedListener.OnLobbyCreated callback).
The listeners are disposed of when a game is started (on the LobbyDataListenerMainMenu.OnLobbyDataUpdated() callback) or when the player leaves the lobby (on the LobbyLeftListenerMainMenu.OnLobbyLeft() callback).
Definitions of Listeners¶
LobbyLeftListenerMainMenu¶
This listener receives callbacks when the user succeeds or fails to leave a lobby. It provides the GalaxyID of the lobby the player left. Regardless of the result, this listener provides both the lobbyID it was trying to leave and the result of calling the Matchmaking.LeaveLobby() method.
In this demo we use lobby topology of the FCM type without ownership transition (LOBBY_TOPOLOGY_TYPE_FCM). Because of this, LobbyLeftListenerMainMenu() receives a callback in two situations:
- when the player (client) leaves the lobby,
- when the lobby host (owner) leaves.
Inside this listener we implemented three additional methods:
HostClosedLobby()for notifying the player-client that the lobby host left (and the lobby was closed), and for getting the player-client back to the online menu,UserLeftLobby()for getting the player-client back to the online menu,LobbyLeft()to restore default (null) values of the following variables:CurrentLobbyID,LobbyOwnerIDandlobbyName, and to dispose of the LobbyManagementMainMenu listeners.
LobbyDataListenerMainMenu¶
This listener receives callbacks when a given lobby or specific member data is retrieved. It provides the GalaxyID of the lobby and the member whose data was changed. If only the lobby data was changed, the member’s GalaxyID will be empty (new GalaxyID(0)).
This listener is used very often: first, we use it in the OnlineWait screen of the main menu. When a member joins a lobby, their data state is set to notReady. When this lobby member clicks the Ready button, their state is set to ready. When both members’ states are set to ready, the lobby state is set to ready, which in turn activates the Start game button for the lobby owner.
When the lobby owner starts the game, they set the lobby state to steady. When the players receive information about this state change, they begin loading the new scene. After the loading is completed, each member sets their own state to go. When both players’ state is set to go, the game starts.