About automatically joining the room after entering the lobby.

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Question :
I read the OnPlaySessionStarted API, which says, “If a Callback is not supplied, coherence will automatically join the specified RoomData.” Does this mean that if I do not use lobbies.OnPlaySessionStarted += OnLobbyPlaySessionStarted;, it will automatically join the room?

Requirement :
I want the player to automatically join the room when they call FindOrCreateLobbyAsync, without waiting for the Lobby Owner to call “StartGameSessionAsync”

Reference:
OnPlaySessionStarted API

Lobby

Looking forward to your reply.

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If a player is in the lobby when the lobby owner starts the session, they will automatically join the room.

If a player joins the lobby after the game has started, you’ll need to use the lobby RoomData like in the snippet here to manually join the room: Lobbies | coherence Documentation

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So,lobby owner must call StartGameSessionAsync for players (including the lobby owner) to enter the room?

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Yes, if you want to rely on this automatic functionality. If you want to manage rooms completely separate from lobbies, then you can do something like:

  1. use a lobby to coordinate players with attributes
  2. create a room outside of the lobby “start game” system using the normal coherence rooms API
  3. add the room data to a lobby attribute
  4. use lobby attributes (and hence the room to join data) by all future members of the lobby to join as needed