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  1. Photon 2
  2. Photon 3

MMO Peer State Machine

A client peer has one of the following states:

  1. Connected: Initial state after connecting, player has not entered a world.
  2. WorldEntered: Player entered a world with operation EnterWorld.
  3. Disconnected: Client disconnected.
This diagram shows all transitions:
MMO Peer State Machine
The peer uses a different operation handler for each state.
This allows operations to behave differently in each state.
The following operation handlers are used:
  1. State Connected: Photon.MmoDemo.Server.MmoPeer
  2. State WorldEntered: Photon.MmoDemo.Server.MmoActor
  3. State Disconnected: Photon.SocketServer.Rpc.OperationHandlerDisconnected
The client should always wait for the related operation response / event after calling a state changing operation; the peer state and therefore the current operation handler (operation behavior) is not guaranteed until the response / event is received. For operation EnterWorld it's the operation response, for operation ExitWorld it's the event WorldExited.