Patching Photon (No Modloader)
This guide goes through patching Rec Room's photon servers without the use of a modloader (BepInEx/MelonLoader).
This guide works for other games that use Photon as well, but is made for Rec Room.
- Have a build downloaded.
- Have an account on photonengine.com
Rec Room uses 2 types of Photon servers:
- PUN (Photon Unity Networking)
- Voice (Voice)
Click on this link to go to the Photon new application dashboard.
- Go through this process twice. First time for PUN, second time should be for Voice.
- Application name can be anything you want it to be.
Photon offers a 20 CCU (connections) limit on free cloud apps. Unless you pay up, you will only ever get 20 people connected to your server at a time.
Make sure you note down your App ID, it can be found in the development dashboard (you get redirected here when you make your app)
Coach's Time Machine has created a web utility to make patching Photon easier. Click here to open it.
Locate your builds resources.assets file (in the Recroom_Release_Data folder), and 'upload' it.
Insert your custom Photon PUN and Voice App IDs in the proper fields, and then click "Cut the orange wire (Patch)".
Shortly after, a file will be downloaded called custom-photon-resources.assets.
Rename this file to just resources.assets and replace the original resources.assets file in the build you are modifying.