Need with direction for creating a Turn Based Multiplayer Shared AR experience

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Before I go down a :rabbit: hole, I would appreciate any help with some direction I am wanting to create a “turn-based” AR game using Lightship

People can drop objects in areas and other people can view and interact with the objects.

ie it doesn’t have to be in real time, purely “turn-based” Not sure if I should got the Multiplayer direction using SharedAR (location manager) Is this overkill?

Eg of a user story:

  1. I open app and browse my local area
  2. I then Drop (spawn) an Object
  3. The next day, another user browses the same area and see the objects I dropped and picks them up

Isn’t it easier to Place Objects and store the location / info in an online DB?

I am using this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9v7_59uP7s Do you think this is the right direction or is there something a bit more simpler? Also can you suggest any more up to date tutorials?

I am also trying Emoji Garden, however it’s a pain to get started, there is always errors.

Include the following details (edit as applicable):

  • Issue category: Multiplayer
  • Device type & OS version: Android
  • Host machine & OS version: Mac
  • Issue Environment : On Device
  • Xcode version:
  • ARDK version: 3
  • Unity version: 2022.3.81

Description of the issue:

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Hi Gary,

If you aren’t creating a real-time experience where more than one device is in the same “session” i.e. having the same augmented reality experience concurrently, you could get away with serializing JSON data (https://lightship.dev/docs/ardk/how-to/ar/serialize_runtime_scenes/) to save what objects are spawned at a location on our servers without using Shared AR features.

Kind regards,
Maverick L.

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Ahh it looks like the “VpsSceneSerialization” sample is missing, any idea where to find this?

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Unfortunately that sample has still not been committed to the samples repository and I’m not sure when it will be; however, you should be able to get serialization and deserialization implemented with the provided how-to articles as they’re written. Please let me know if you have any specific questions regarding how to get serialization set up.

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Ok please let me know if you hear of any serialisation tutorials