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    Upload a preview

    Previews of Decentraland scenes can run as standalone pages, just as you can run a preview locally in your machine. This is a fantastic way to share interactive previews of your content with others! It’s also useful to test your scenes in other platforms, such as mobile.

    Decentraland scene previews are compatible with the following hosting platforms:

    Once uploaded to one of these platforms, the only thing that others have to do in order to explore your scene is open a link. They don’t need to install the CLI, Node, NPM, or any of the other tools that would be required to run the preview on their local machine.

    For example here are some scenes that are currently running in Vercel Now:

    Note that it’s not necessary to own LAND to upload a scene preview to a server. The uploaded content isn’t linked to the blockchain in any way. When running the preview, other adjacent parcels appear as empty.

    Before you begin

    To upload a preview to a server, make sure you’re using the latest version of the SDK. Check the Release notes section if you’re not sure.

    Remember that the SDK version is specified in the scene and is determined when you first create it with the CLI. So, if you have a scene you created with an older version of the CLI, and then update the CLI, you will need to manually update the scene so it references the latest version of the SDK.

    Your scene must also be compiled, as what you’ll be uploading are the files in the /bin folder instead of in the /src folder.

    If you haven’t compiled your scene with the latest changes, you can do it by running npm install. The scene is also compiled automatically every time you run a preview with dcl start.

    Note: If the scene you want to deploy was built with an older version of the CLI (2.2.6 or older), update the dclignore file in your project to include the following entries:

    - node_modules
- dist
- export

    Prepare a scene for deploying

    To deploy your scene to a hosting service like Vercel Now, GitHub pages, or Amazon S3, you must first export your scene’s code to the format of a static webpage. To do this, run the following command:

    dcl export

    This creates a new folder named export in your project directory. This folder contains everything needed to run your scene, in a format that’s compatible with most hosting services.

    Upload only the contents of the export folder to the hosting service.

    Note: The /export folder is built based on the contents of the /bin folder. Make sure that the latest version of your scene’s source code has been compiled before running the dcl export command. You can compile your scene by running npm install or dcl start.

    Deploy to Vercel Now

    To deploy a scene to now:

    1. Make sure you have the latest version of the Vercel Now CLI, and of the Decentraland CLI installed.

      npm i -g decentraland now

    2. Run the following command form the scene’s export folder (that you created with the dcl export command):

      now

      The console will show you the output of the server as it installs the necessary dependencies to run your scene. This takes a few minutes.

    3. When done, the URL to the server should automatically be added to your clipboard, ready to paste in a browser!

      You can otherwise get the link in the console’s output, it will resemble something like https://myscene-gnezxvoayw.now.sh.

      Tip: The URL will take the folder name as part of the path. You can rename the export folder to anything you want. That won’t affect the scene, but it will change the URL.

    4. Share the link with anyone you want! Now will keep hosting your scene at that link indeterminably.

    Note: Keep in mind that the free version of Now enforces a maximum file size of 50 MB.

    Optionally, you can alias your deployment with now.sh domain, or any domain you have registered at Now. The following eample uses the decentraland.now.sh domain:

    now alias {deploymentId} decentraland.now.sh

    Note: for scenes that were originally built with version 6.0 or older, you will have to make a couple of manual adjustments to your project. See this blogpost for more details.

    Multiplayer considerations

    Note that scenes deployed to a server behave as single player experiences, even though you’re able to see other players moving around.

    Player positions are shared, but each player runs the scene locally in their browser. If the scene can be modified by a player’s interaction, each player will see the scene in a different state.

    To synchronize the scene’s state amongst players, there are two approaches (see multiplayer considerations ) If you use a remote server to sync the state amongst the various players, then you should also deploy the server somewhere, separate from the scene. You can also deploy the server to now, by following the steps below.

    Upload multiplayer scenes

    If you created your scene based on one of the remote scene examples, then you need to make two separate deployments, one for the server and another for the scene client.

    For example, to deploy both server and the scene client to Vercel now, follow these steps:

    1. Change directory to the /server folder and run the following command to deploy just the server:

      now

    2) Copy the URL from the deployed project.

    3) In the /scene folder, modify the code so that it points to the link of the server you deployed to Now (the URL you just copied).

    If your scene uses a websocket connection, you must modify the URL address manually so that it begins with wss (web socket secure) instead of https.

    For example, if the server’s address is https://dcl-project-fsutefbepd.now.sh/, you should modify it to wss://dcl-project-fsutefbepd.now.sh/.

    4) Deploy the full scene folder, running

       now

    5) Once the upload is completed, the URL to the scene preview should be in your clipboard, ready to share.