The E3DS Multiplayer Server Scaling plugin connects a multiplayer client to its dedicated server automatically, so nobody has to be told an IP address and a port.
A dedicated-server multiplayer app has to know where its server is. Without help, that means the player types an address — which is awkward on a desktop, close to impossible in a mobile browser, and simply wrong when servers are created on demand and the address is not known until one exists.
With the plugin, the client is handed its server's connection details and joins on launch. Nothing is typed.
Servers that scale with demand — the address changes every time and the client does not care — and multiplayer that works from a phone browser, where there is nowhere sensible to enter an IP anyway.
Unreal Engine 5.3 to 5.8 (the
Fab listing
shows the versions currently supported), a Win64 dedicated server build of
your project, the PixelStreaming plugin enabled (the plugin
depends on it), an Eagle 3D Streaming
API key, and the exact name of the
uploaded server app.
Installing the plugin and the client-side setup — where the connection details arrive and what to do with them — are covered step by step on automatic server join.
Building, packaging and running a client and server pair.
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