raknet.send Synchronous

RakNet.Send
RakNet.send
raknet.Send

Submit an outgoing RakNet packet using data you already know is valid for the game’s protocol. Manual sends pass through your outgoing packet callbacks before entering the native queue.

Syntax

Luau

raknet.send(
    data: PacketData | PacketOptions | RakNetPacket,
    priority: number?,
    reliability: number?,
    channel: number?
) -> ()

Parameters

Function parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
`data`	`PacketData \| PacketOptions \| RakNetPacket`	Nonempty string, buffer, dense byte array, PacketOptions table with Data, or live RakNetPacket.
`priority`	`number?`	Optional priority 0–3; defaults to 2.
`reliability`	`number?`	Optional reliability 0–7; defaults to 3.
`channel`	`number?`	Optional ordering channel 0–31; defaults to 0.

Argument fields

PacketData fields

Luau

PacketData = string | buffer | {number}

PacketOptions fields

Luau

PacketOptions = {
  Data: PacketData, Priority: number?, Reliability: number?, OrderingChannel: number?,
  SystemIdentifier: (string | number)?, Broadcast: boolean?, ForceReceiptNumber: number?
}

RakNetPacket fields

Luau

RakNetPacket = {
  Data: buffer, AsArray: {number}, AsBuffer: buffer, AsString: string,
  Size: number, PacketId: number, ID: number, Id: number, PacketID: number, Priority: number,
  Reliability: number, OrderingChannel: number,
  SystemIdentifier: string, Broadcast: boolean, ForceReceiptNumber: number
}

Returns

()

No value.

Usage notes

The RakNet library must be enabled in Environment settings and connected to an active game generation.

The payload can contain at most 268,435,455 bytes, the most the transport’s bit count can represent. A connected peer is required; an invalid, empty, or larger payload raises an error.

A PacketOptions table supplies its own Data, Priority, Reliability, OrderingChannel, SystemIdentifier, Broadcast, and ForceReceiptNumber fields; positional settings are ignored in that form.

Availability

RakNet is disabled by default. RakNet and raknet are removed when the setting is off; retained references can still call is_enabled().

Example

Luau

local function sendKnownPacket(validPayload)
    assert(raknet.is_enabled(), "RakNet is unavailable")
    raknet.send(validPayload, 2, 3, 0)
end
-- Call sendKnownPacket only with a packet encoded for this game's protocol.