What is the best way to share resources between a server and client?

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What is the recommended way in Godot 3.0 to have a server provide resources to the client, such as textures?

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I guess using a Web server for this still is the best way to go today, as UDP-based file transfers are usually slow. It will make server setup more complex though, since every server owner will have to set up a Web server with additional game files being publicly accessible.

The use of simple, "ad-hoc" HTTP servers (like serve) can make this easier, but then, using HTTPS generally becomes impossible (despite being supported by Godot).

by (12,878 points)

That's sort of an unsatisfying answer but I think it's what I expected, since it didn't look like the Godot API had anything particularly useful for file transfers.

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