I shipped gni-compression to npm two days ago. One of the first questions I got (from myself, running benchmarks at midnight): does it work on anything other than chat data? Short answer: not yet. Long answer: I found out exactly why, and it led me somewhere more interesting than I expected. After the npm launch I ran GN against Silesia — the standard general text compression benchmark suite. Dick
When you run Mirror and Socket.IO in the same Unity project, you immediately hit a translation problem. Mirror identifies players by netId — a uint assigned at spawn time by the Mirror host. Socket.IO identifies players by playerId — a string assigned by your Node.js backend when they connect. These two IDs have nothing to do with each other. They're generated by different systems at different tim