Channels
Vivox provides group text and voice communications through channels. Users can communicate with each other by joining the same channel.
Channels support the following functionality:
- Voice
- Voice rendered with 3D effects (positional/directional audio)
- Text
- Muting a user for oneself
- Muting a user for all users in the channel
- Forced removal of a user from a channel (“kick”)
Channels have the following characteristics:
- Channels are identified by channel IDs.
- Channel IDs are assigned by the game.
- Channels are platform agnostic - game clients running on different platforms interoperate with each other.
- Channels are created on demand, and inactive channels consume no Vivox resources.
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Channel management | Information on the basic behavior of channels and their life cycles. |
| Channel name criteria | Criteria for what makes an acceptable channel name. |
| Channel types | Information on the 3 channel types: Echo, group, and positional. |
| Positional channels | Information concerning the properties of positional channels. |
| Channel identifiers for large scale games | Information concerning channels in applications with a lot of concurrent users. |
| Participant management | Managing players within channels. |
| Join a channel | Steps for having a user join a channel. |
| Leave a channel | Steps to leave a channel. |
| Automatic connection recovery | Information on Vivox's built-in connection recovery function. |