archived-networking

[rapid carbon]

It will be simpler but i think i should upgrade anyways 22 will be better then 21 anyways

Is it ?

[candid ginkgo]

I'm guessing so, afaik they added a bunch of new features but they're a bit too advanced for me so I can't really speak about it

[rapid carbon]

Great I'll go with 22 then

New things to learn as well

[shrewd junco]

If your project is already into development, I wouldnt upgrade

[candid ginkgo]

the only reason I suggested the new unity version is because I thought the ngo package version might be tied to it but if it's not don't bother

[shrewd junco]

If this is a new project, then might as well

[rapid carbon]

I started it today morning lmao

[shrewd junco]

Ah ye then doesnt matter

[candid ginkgo]

to upgrade you just download the new version and then change it in the unity hub

[rapid carbon]

Okk will be back after its done eating my 11gbs

[rapid carbon]

Oh okk tysm

[candid ginkgo]

but then to fix the problem you had with the input system I think you should try this

I don't think it's a problem with ngo's version since it wasn't giving you any errors

[rapid carbon]

Makes sense

I'll try

[rapid carbon]

I changed to new version now there is one new package netcode for entries do i use it? @candid ginkgo @shrewd junco

[candid ginkgo]

that depends on if you want to use ECS

but thats a whole other new system that you probably don't need for your player movement

[rapid carbon]

Great

[rapid carbon]

Also I wanted to ask there is a new check box sync player transform in network object itself so I need to use client transform or i don't need transform anymore or network transform works like cleint one now?

[candid ginkgo]

you still need to have a player transform component

not sure how it works exactly in the background but the docs mention that to use the networktransform component you need to have the sync transform checked in the networkobject component

either the clientnetworktransform or the networktransform

[rapid carbon]

But I should use client side so it does not work for host only right?

Also now I am unable to drag my prefab to the network prefabs list why?

[candid ginkgo]

well the difference between client side and network transform is just who has priority over the movement

[rapid carbon]

Isn't server side harder?

[candid ginkgo]

you have to create a networkprefablist object in the project files and then add it to that object

[rapid carbon]

Yes I just did that

Seems unnecessary tbh

[candid ginkgo]

yeah idk why it got changed between versions

[rapid carbon]

Well nvm- thanks tho

[candid ginkgo]

it's sorta harder but that's basically how 90% of multiplayer games work so I feel like it's something that can be interesting when doing a multiplayer game

but that's for you to decide

[rapid carbon]

Well i couldn't find any tutorials that's y I don't know

[candid ginkgo]

yeah there aren't that many I had to use the docs for most of what I did

[rapid carbon]

Okk I'll learn like this for now I'll when I get the hang of it then I'll try it

[candid ginkgo]

good luck, lmk if the script I gave you earlier helped or if it didn't change anything

[rapid carbon]

Okok tysm

@candid ginkgo ya so apparently I did not do anything just used the old script just checking and it's working lmao

[candid ginkgo]

lmao nice

[rapid carbon]

what is wrong?

[sly pawn]

I think the child network object won't be spawned over the network

[candid ginkgo]

you probably have a child object which has the networkObject component which I don't think is necessary if the parent has one

[rapid carbon]

Oh

Let me try

iit got fixed

but

            if(canShoot)
            {
                GameObject spawned = Instantiate(bullet,point.position,gun.transform.rotation * Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, -90));
                spawned.GetComponent<NetworkObject>().Spawn(true);
            }

but it is not spawning

[candid ginkgo]

are you spawning the bullet from the server ?

I'm pretty sure clients can't spawn objects

[rapid carbon]

but i m the host

[candid ginkgo]

oh mb

I guess just add prints evrywhere and see if it even goes in the if statement

[rapid carbon]

yes it goes that forsure

I don't get it

Do I need to call a client RPC?

[candid ginkgo]

I mean if anything it should be a server rpc since spawning is supposed to only be doable by the server

but idk if even the host doesn't spawn it it's weird

you did make your bullet a network object and added it to the prefab list right ?

[rapid carbon]

yes

[candid ginkgo]

maybe try making the 2 lines that spawn the bullet a server rpc just to be sure that the problem doesn't come from the fact that it might be called by a client

just as a way to clear that out

[rapid carbon]

but codemonkey did it like this only

[candid ginkgo]

oh ok

[rapid carbon]

also can a server rpc can be called through client

[candid ginkgo]

yeah that's the point

they're made so that client can run a bunch of code on the server

[rapid carbon]

ohk let me try adding a rpc calla

but codemonkey also showed client and server rpc shouldnt it be the same then

[candid ginkgo]

wdym the same ?

[rapid carbon]

what is the difference?

[candid ginkgo]

server rpcs are called by clients to run on the server and client rpcs are called by the server to run on the clients

[rapid carbon]

😵‍💫

wont it be the same

[candid ginkgo]

no they are two different scenes technically

if I disable an object on my client it will still be enabled on the server

so if I wanted it to be sync'd I would disable it on my client and then send a server rpc that disables it on the server

[rapid carbon]

so if i call a client rpc will i be able to instanciate ?

to the server

[candid ginkgo]

no because a client rpc runs on code on a client

and spawning can only be done on the server

spawning is different from enabling/disabling/instantiating

[rapid carbon]

icic ig i kinda get it so can i call a server rpc while being a client will it work?

[candid ginkgo]

it should but idk if in that case it will

[rapid carbon]

y?

[candid ginkgo]

because since you were the host and the host it both a client and a server it should have worked anyway

[rapid carbon]

true

[candid ginkgo]

might as well try to make a server rpc to be 100% safe

you'll need it anyway if you want other clients to shoot

[rapid carbon]

icic

okk

let me

try adding a debug again

yes

:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

so

i m dumb

it was not being called

[candid ginkgo]

lmao

the power of debug.log

[rapid carbon]

yes lmao

let me just implement rpc now

is multiplay the only place where i can host it?

[candid ginkgo]

idk about that I'm using steam so it's peer to peer

[real ingot]

Yo how do I check if the player has connected to the server on StartClient?

[empty night]

You can add a debug in NetworkManager.Instance.OnClientConnected()..

[real ingot]

No. In an if statement

Oh wait

Ok I see

[empty night]

Can someone tell me how , when using netcode for gameobjects , I can spawn a player object for both host and client when its bult for standalone but for android only the host spawns a player object not the client

[rapid carbon]

GetComponent<NetworkObject>.spawn/despawn(true)

[rapid carbon]

Make it a server rpc if u want other to be able to use it

Can someone suggest me a tutorial on how should I go about making a main menu and a lobbie list I can't find any on YouTube

[zenith crescent]

            if (_equippedSlot.childCount != 0)
            {
                ReturnEquippedItemToSlotServerRpc(_equippedSlotReturnLocation);
            }
            if (_slots[value] != null)
            {
                EquipItemFromSlotServerRpc(value);
            }
    }
    [ServerRpc]
    private void EquipItemFromSlotServerRpc(byte value, ServerRpcParams rpcParams = default)
    {   
        Inventory inv = NetworkManager.ConnectedClients[rpcParams.Receive.SenderClientId].PlayerObject.GetComponent<Inventory>();
        _slots[value].GetComponent<NetworkObject>().TrySetParent(inv._equippedSlot);  
        inv._equippedSlotReturnLocation = value;

    }
    [ServerRpc]
    private void ReturnEquippedItemToSlotServerRpc(byte value, ServerRpcParams rpcParams = default)
    {   
        Inventory inv = NetworkManager.ConnectedClients[rpcParams.Receive.SenderClientId].PlayerObject.GetComponent<Inventory>();
        inv._equippedSlot.GetChild(0).SetParent(inv._slots[value]);
    }``` how can i make other clients change or set a objects parent to a different player so if i set the parent of a item to the player i want other players to see the change how would i go about that im used to pun2 so im really lost

ik this setup would only inform the server but i cant find a way to let other clients see the change

using NGO

[covert veldt]

Hi I have a serverRpc that runs well and inside I had a function that only ran on client so I changed it to a serverRpc as well and now it doesn't run at all. It's on a NetworkBehavior with NetworkObject. Any ideas? 🥴

[upbeat pine]

what does [ObserversRpc] mean?

[halcyon flame]

You can't call a serverrpc from a serverrpc

If you call a function from the server it will always be ran as the server, unless it's a client rpc

It doesn't matter that your client can call a function, as it will be ran with the clients variables anyway (which are either server authoritive, or not present on the client)

[toxic slate]

hi guys! for more complicated player prefabs how would you go about netcode for it? ie. for my player movement code i'm using a finite state machine, and most netcode explanations say to just check for owner, which im not sure how to do in this case

[real ingot]

if(!IsOwner) return;

put that in the beginning of a method

that'll make sure to prevent any other clients interfering with other clients scripts

[vivid viper]

can someone help me with a netcode issue? willing to hop on a call and show them or just via dms

theres a problem with an item spawning thats meant to follow the player, yet it just either stays at the middle not registering for the other player, or just doesnt register

if u need more info dm me

[real ingot]

How does it work??? Is it a method? if statement? Method call?

Anyone know how to check whenever a client has connected to a server?

[empty night]

OnClientConnected is a method call.. google searchit

[empty night]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/onclientconnect/254596

[real ingot]

I've been google seaching for a little while and smh didn't find this

[empty night]

Hey no worries

[real ingot]

thanks tho

[empty night]

No problem , you can ask chtgpt also for an example usage in unity using c#.

[real ingot]

I don't use ai, unfortunately. I like putting more pain on my shoulders

[empty night]

Yeah , its a nice tutor , good to bounce ideas off of

[shrewd junco]

Dont suggest people use chatgpt. Anyone that suggests this just shows they dont really know what they're doing. Its trained off data last updated 2 years ago, and it has no clue about anything related to current ngo.
AI generated stuff also isnt allowed in the server

[shrewd junco]

If you can show code, itll probably be easier to help. Sorry to say but no ones really gonna DM you to help you for free.

[empty night]

Shows what you know guy , it can provide updated info for a lot of stuff. And its not used as a crutch but as a tutor..

[empty night]

I'm a self taught and self published dev , i know enough

[shrewd junco]

im not here to argue if it can be used as a tutor, i am saying that it quite literally has no info on NGO.

i dont care if you personally use it, just dont suggest others do especially for ngo. Its clear when code is written by AI, and its even worse when someone asks for help on code they didnt write or understand

[empty night]

That's what i use ai for explaining code to me and dissecting bugs

But i can also agree it doesn't always provide the best info. Like unity's new input system

[candid ginkgo]

I hope whatever Unity's AI project will be it'll include an AI that has been fed all the docs so it can give clear explanation and help with using recent systems

also nothing to do with that but anyone knows if there's a way to implement client side prediction for rigidbody movement without having to essentially rework the networkTransform component ?

[shrewd junco]

the only part that should really matter is if your world has rigidbodies that your character is supposed to interact with, the actual client side prediction part/server reconciliation should just be the same where both are running the logic and the server corrects it if its wrong

if the client is supposed to predict how it work running into another rigidbody.. im not sure there because im trying to solve the same issue and i hate it

[candid ginkgo]

but to implement basic transform synchronization did you have to remove the networkTransform component and make your own ?

cuz I don't see how it's possible to keep using it since it only let's you change the transform from the server

[candid ginkgo]

same goes for network rigidbody

[shrewd junco]

yes you dont need the network transform, there are some tutorials that go through how to implement it. also i havent actually implemented it myself, because with rigidbodies the velocity part is somewhat annoying if you need players to push stuff around

[candid ginkgo]

yeah from what I read it seems pretty doable for character controllers but physics seem to be a lot harder to manage

I don't think I'll have to care too much about predicting player's pushing around stuff since the main reason I used a rigidbody was to be able to maintain the player's velocity when doing certain actions

[candid ginkgo]

if you have any good tutorials would you mind sharing them I've seen a couple but they never actually used NGO so I'm wondering how it works implementing it in a ngo project

like does having synchronize transform checked matter at all or is it only useful for the networkTransform components

[shrewd junco]

the thing is each player will see the others as if they dont have velocity

[candid ginkgo]

isn't that already the case when using NetworkRigidbodies since they are set to kinematic on clients ?

[shrewd junco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvYRtDJnkcg
this is one that i skimmed through when looking at resources for facepunch, its the only one i really looked at

[shrewd junco]

yes, which is quite annoying for my game at least. I need players to push around stuff in mine

[candid ginkgo]

isn't there a way to temporarily make them not kinematic for your calculations ?

[candid ginkgo]

I saw this video where the guy doesn't really go too much into details about how it works but in the comments he linked a github page where he explained how he implemented it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93XdHNjONQ&t=12s

[shrewd junco]

my calculations will be pretty much every second, since my game is all physics based :p

[shrewd junco]

there will be many resources, tbh it doesnt matter what you use because the concept is just the same

[candid ginkgo]

yeah fair enough

[shrewd junco]

doesnt matter as long as they dont make a mistake i mean

[candid ginkgo]

I'm gonna have to read up on how physics simulation works on unity because I think the guy mentions that to have it properly work you need to stop the auto simulation which means fixedUpdate becomes unusable and use a tick system in the update instead

[zenith crescent]

is there a good solution to having a "Pickup" of an object currently u can only have one networkObject on a prefab so i have one on the root, and u cant have one on the hand to parent to, so u have to either like fake the position or something? does anyone know a good workaround or solution to parenting a networkobject to a transform

saw something abount parent constraint or spawning the hand and parenting it under the player on network spawn

using NGO

[candid ginkgo]

I never tried doing any pickup systems but if you look into the client driven sample I'm pretty sure it has a pickup system

it's client side but it might still be helpful

[zenith crescent]

alright ill check it out

[candid ginkgo]

https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/learn/bitesize/bitesize-clientdriven/

[zenith crescent]

i beleive on this i just looked and it parents it to the transform so just the root not a nested object so apparently unity thinks this is the best solution!! there smart

[simple bear]

Does anyone here have experience with Photon Fusion? Do NetworkedObjects get destroyed when the network runner gets destroyed?
I have a NetworkSpawner object in a scene that gets destroyed when the network runner gets destroyed (i.e. when the host leaves). I want to stop it from getting destroyed. How do I do that?

[vagrant garden]

The only way is way a custom network prefab pool. But generally you want to have them destroyed when the networked session ends as they will no longer function properly without the runner.

[vagrant garden]

Also there's a Discord specifically for Photon you can join via the dashboard

[simple bear]

Okay. Actually, I want to implement host migration. When the host leaves, we have to shutdown and start a new Network Runner. I am losing important data when my network spawner script is refreshing.

[vagrant garden]

Fusion has built in host migration.

Which is the only proper way to implement this. It is much better than a manual implementation

[simple bear]

I am using that. But from tutorials I understand that I have to make connection tokens to assign each player with their in game players

In my case, cars

[real ingot]

Yo I'm kinda confused right now. I made a script where a ui enables and disables it self whenever a client triggers a collider. I didn't expect it to work cause I thought that I need to do some networking so that whenever a client triggers the collider it wouldn't enable or disable any other client's ui. But it seems like everything works fine. Why?

Oh wait I guess it makes sense. Without the networkObject or any code it won't send the changes to the server so it's all good

How do I despawn a collided object something like this?

I'm trying to despawn an object for everyone in the server

[candid ginkgo]

https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/basics/object-spawning/#destroying--despawning

[clear jolt]

I think I'm facing something also related to the prediction issue? but it behaves strangely so I'm not sure which part should I improve.

[clear jolt]

The child components of a prefab is pretty leggy and was not sync as a whole unit in other client's view.

[real ingot]

I'm having issues with the serverRpc.

[nocturne vapor]

You can't pass a gameobject in a serverrpc, you can have a script on the gameobject which has a public destroyServerRpc function, which just despawns and destroys this.
This way you can call it from any client

[real ingot]

I've seen that most people don't even use serverRpc function to despawn objects. Unless that was only in the oldest version of NGO

[real ingot]

That worked thanks

[real ingot]

Never mind it didn't

can you even despawn an object that was manually added to the scene in the editor?

[nocturne vapor]

You aren't handling that logic on the server

[real ingot]

Sorry I didn't realise I didn't have the networkBehaviour on that script

[cyan cobalt]

topolgy

[upbeat pine]

Im trying to play my coop game with friendsusing hamachi

but it doesnt seem to work

the tutorials I saw use zerotier but it doesnt open for me

what should I do

[nocturne vapor]

what ip does your coop game use to host the server? localhost=127.0.0.1? 0.0.0.0? you want 0.0.0.0 for opening it up to all network interfaces

[radiant dome]

Hi guys i am having this problem with Vivox,can you help me?

[upbeat pine]

ipv4 or ipv6?

or am I misinterpreting something

[nocturne vapor]

that is ipv4

[upbeat pine]

so I should set it to 0.0.0.0?

[nocturne vapor]

yes

[upbeat pine]

thank you

[real ingot]

yo! How do I find the player GameObject of the owner in a gameobject that contains all the clients? In UNet there used to be a NetworkIdentity but in NGO there isn't. Any other way to do this?

[upbeat pine]

still doesnt work

[nocturne vapor]

can't tell your more without knowing specifics of your networking solution
does it work locally?

[upbeat pine]

by locally you mean when I build the game and run it in editor at the same time

?

[nocturne vapor]

yes and on your local network with another machine

[upbeat pine]

yes

it does

[nocturne vapor]

how do you try to connect via hamachi?

[upbeat pine]

were just connect to the same network

[nocturne vapor]

I meant how does your lobby joining work? do you enter an ip and port?

[upbeat pine]

I thought you could just press client

using fishnet

when connected to the same network

and thqat would work

[nocturne vapor]

I don't know about fishnet but no, you need to tell your game where to connect to. Have you every tried your game on different machines?
An ip address points you to another pc, you need to tell the game which pc the server is, if you only tested on your own machine it has a default value for hosting with localhost and the client will defaultly connect to that (atleast in most networking solutions, no clue of fishnet)
you need to change that and than the other person can join via the given hamachi ip adress

I always forget the reply thing @upbeat pine

[upbeat pine]

I only tried on the same device but I reckoned it would work the same

Ill try that thank you

[nocturne vapor]

no it sadly doesn't and if you ever want to release your game, this gets more complicated

I wrote a more detailed explanation of how to do it without IPs here
@upbeat pine

[real ingot]

?

[half anvil]

how to spawn player at a given location in multiplayer in netcode

[real ingot]

Never mind I figured it out. I got the object that contains all the players in my script and did a foreach loop and looked for the player that is IsOwner = true

[terse idol]

Hi, between photon fusion and mirror. which one is better and why?

[real ingot]

Scratch that. That is wayyyy to long. I used this instead NetworkManager.LocalClient.PlayerObject.transform

[untold imp]

Hi, I'm trying to create shooting mechanic in my game. In short player spawn bullet locally then send rpc to other clients to spawn local version of bullet (bullet is not network object). As you can see on image it creates weird effect. I think it can be a problem with player position interpolation but I'm not sure. Do you have any idea how to fix it?

[nocturne vapor]

can you try how it looks when handling the spawning completly in the clientrpc?
so your playerWhoShoot variable would be used to determine to set data.damage and not to return

[spring void]

You can slightly reduce the differences by checking out the latency and adjust the bullet position accordingly. E.g. if a player has 1s lag, then after spawning his bullets you should simulate how the projectile would behave during this time, moving it further and potentially hitting something.

Btw, the starting parameters should be calculated on the server, unless you want to give cheaters an opportunity to modify the app to spawn their bullets directly inside of an enemy.

[untold imp]

Bullet position is correct. Problem is with player position

Player position is interpolated so it can create that weird effect

Without interpretation shooting is correct but player move looking terrible

You should first in update check for input and if player can shoot and then if yes use serverRpc to spawn bullet

In your code shooting script only run on server

[split hedge]

Got it, now I have a problem where if I shoot on the client, it wont rotate where the mouse is, just on the host:

[abstract copper]

you are only showing part of the relevant code

you don't show where rotZ is set, which is very very relevant to the issue

also none of the previous messages in this channel have been about your issue lol, they were sent hours ago

[split hedge]

I deleted it it wasnt relevant

[abstract copper]

yes, so in your current code, only the client knows what their rotZ variable is

the server does not know

[split hedge]

So it should become a networkvariable?

[abstract copper]

no

you should send it with the rpc, as was recommended in #💻┃code-beginner

as a parameter

[split hedge]

I did use that method

That didnt work as well

[abstract copper]

you said it didn't work, but you need to show your attempt

[split hedge]

Okay 1 second

Now it works like this @abstract copper :
If I shoot with the client it does rotate (the bullet), but it'll always shoot from one point

[abstract copper]

notice what you are passing into the RPC function

and whether or not it makes any sense

[split hedge]

or frick

yeap

Thanks you helped !

[upbeat pine]

How do I make it so the player can see the bodies of other players in the game but can't seen his own?

[forest pike]

I'm currently trying to use unity netcode and I made a working multiplayer where I can play together with Host and Client on my own PC. But when I try to start a Host on my pc and then join with Client on a different PC in the same network it doesn't work and the Client can't find the Host somehow. Does someone know what is the issue here or where I can find something about this topic. Because I can't find anything useful regarding this in a forum. thanks

[gray warren]

Hi 👋 , I'm returning to Unity after a while and couldn't figure out if UnityWebRequst (https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UnityWebRequest.html) is part of the Netcode package or is deprecated . Should I use C#'s HTTPClient for example? I need to make simple GET/POST/DELETE requests.

[lean anchor]

does the free version of photon fusion automatically "lock" servers if more than 100 players are in them?

[vagrant garden]

The free version of Photon Fusion only supports 20 CCU not 100

And yes it hard locks

[gray warren]

Any one has an idea or best practice? Thanks.

[lean anchor]

swell. this means i dont need to input credit card information right?

[vagrant garden]

Yes

[lean anchor]

great. is it 20 ccu per account or 20 ccu per project?
also when it says for non commercial use, if i dont add microtransactions to the game and make it free, is it allowed?

[untold imp]

if you want to make multiplayer game try to first learn something about how networks work

you need to do port forwading on your network

or you can use unity relay

https://docs.unity.com/relay/en-us/manual/introduction

[nocturne vapor]

it doesn't say deprecated atleast, there is no webrequest method in ngo, so I can't say it will last forever but from what I can read there are no plans to retire it soon

[gray warren]

Thanks. I might try using Polly too. I hope it works with Unity and mobile+webGL builds.

[vagrant garden]

Most people buy a higher package when they release their game since they will have more than 20 users. And for any commercial purpose you have to as the ToS say. If you just do a hobby project / jam game and make it free don't worry about it.

[cloud kite]

Anyone else has experienced this sync problem with players? The players are hovering on different highest on each client

[spring crane]

This can happen when the object has thresholds for sending another update for a given position axis without any extra logic for handling these kinds of cases.

[cloud kite]

Got it thanks. I just unticked Interpolate on the Client Network Transform

[mental pond]

Is there someone who can help me with specified problem, I want to switch from Dedicated Server to Custom Server but I need Rigidbody, GameObject from API because I'm synchronizing Physical Object over network on server and sending position to clients. Is there solution for this? Hope you understand. I'm using LiteNetLib as Networking.

[lean anchor]

i just wanna make a small itch game that i intend to make 0 dollars from

[mental pond]

bump

offering 100 € for help

DM me

[naive yoke]

Are there any audit tools out there to check for unity vulnerabilities? Cause i seen some videos where the user could mod the info at front end and gives them advantage during gameplay

[vagrant garden]

This depends on the networking solution you use. No tool can audit this, needs to be a human doing the test.

[regal gull]

Hey guys, I am trying to add the Flatbuffers library to my Unity project and I want to build for Android and iOS

In all the tutorials I've seen the library is in a .dll so I think that would only work with Windows right?

I am basically trying to serialize data in the Unity client and send it using sockets to a C++ server, and viceversa. Is Flatbuffers a good library for that? Or are there better options out there?

[real ingot]

Yo! How do I spawn objects? I tried to do something like this:[ServerRpc] public void SpawnObjectServerRpc() { GameObject weapon = Instantiate(weaponData.ItemData.weapon); weapon.transform.SetParent(weaponHolder); weapon.transform.localPosition = Vector3.zero; weapon.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(Vector3.zero); weapon.transform.localScale = Vector3.one; weapon.GetComponent<NetworkObject>().Spawn(); }
but it doesn't even call the method. I want so that whenever a client presses a key it'll spawn an object, but when I do that in the if statement where it checks if the client presses or no it gives me an error in play mode when I press the key that only the servers can spawn objects. Any help with this?

do I even need to do this in a ServerRpc?

[mental pond]

Can explain you in DM add me

[real ingot]

Why do I have to add you? (If your talking to me)

Can't you help me in here? I thought it'll be quick

[mental pond]

?? Im not talking to u bud 😂

[real ingot]

Problemo fixed

[elder sorrel]

Hey All I am working to make a WebGL build. I need to have a scene be hosted on a server that will have a landscape and few NPC zombies using a script able object to keep track of everything happening in the scene. The WebGL will be using the client scene and will have a character with a name and different customisations and than will load into the zombie infested scene to go kill some and spawn back to the previous scene being the space the character is in.

What kind of service should I use for a prototype build and only like a max of 10 people playing it.

[untold imp]

then in situation when ping is high bullet will show a while after you shot

[zenith crescent]

    public void OnTransformParentChanged()
    { 
        if (transform.parent == null) 
            OnItemDropped();
        else 
            OnItemGrabbed(equipSlot.Value);
    }

    [ServerRpc(RequireOwnership = false)]
    public void SetEquipSlotServerRpc(ulong id, byte slot)
    {
        ItemTransform itemTransform = NetworkManager.SpawnManager.SpawnedObjects[id].transform.GetComponent<ItemTransform>();
        itemTransform.equipSlot.Value = slot;
        print("Setting value to " + slot);
    }```

```    private void RaycastToItem()
    {
        if (Physics.Raycast(cam.transform.position, cam.transform.forward, out RaycastHit hit, 5, layerMask))
        {
            if (hit.transform.CompareTag("Item"))
            {
                for (byte i = 0; i < _handItems.Length; i++)
                {
                    if (_handItems[i] != null) continue;

                    if (hit.transform.TryGetComponent<NetworkObject>(out NetworkObject networkObject))
                    {
                        NetworkObjectReference reference = new NetworkObjectReference(networkObject);
                        networkObject.GetComponent<ItemTransform>().SetEquipSlotServerRpc(networkObject.NetworkObjectId, i);
                        PickupItemServerRpc(i, reference);
                        return;
                    }
                    else Debug.LogError("Failed To Get Component [NetworkObject] from Item");
                }

                Debug.LogError("Your Hands are Full!");
            }
        }
    }```

i have the top script that is called from the players inventory script however the host can call SetEquipSlotServerRpc (on the second script) and it works perfectly but when a client does it i get no errors the network variable equipSlot just doesnt change and i dont know why

[tidal moat]

Is there a way to get The ping of each player and display it using a TMP using Mirror and FIzzySteamworks?

[real ingot]

Hi! Any way to use NetworkVariables and assign a GameObject without getting the GameObject not supported error? I need to do that so that I could spawn objects through another script

[sharp axle]

FYI, there is websocket support in Unity Transport 2.0
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/transport/current/about/#requirements-for-unity-transport-2x

[nocturne vapor]

I see thanks for pointing it out, I'm not using the unity transport (because I use facepunch instead) so I was unaware

[real ingot]

Don't need it

[nocturne vapor]

wasn't reading the original message, busy with stduying for exams and only replied to the ping
what you could do is having a gameobject manager which takes a prefab, gives it an id, which you can than use in a network variable, thats how I handle my item spawning

[real ingot]

I already did it

don't worry

I said I don't need it

I was kinda in a hurry so I phrased it like that. Sorry

[obtuse token]

Please guys, help me i need Head Motors based on IK, whos can help? Please.

With limit

[south prairie]

hey all, can anybody throw me a few info bits if Unity's new NetCode is worth migrating to? Ive been out a couple of years... So many people use alternative network solutions nowadays (like Mirror)....

[nocturne vapor]

don't worry, I just wanted to share my approach in case you like that better

[real ingot]

I did the same as you explained

[nocturne vapor]

That is good

[real ingot]

Anyone know why my TrySetParent doesn't parent the object?

If needed I can give more code

It spawns the object but it doesn't parent it. No errors either

the "weaponHolder" is the clients characher's hand. The hand doesn't have a networkObject, only the player prefab has it

[nocturne vapor]

And that is the problem, you can't parent a network object under a non network object

[real ingot]

I'll get an error if I'll put a networkObject on an object that is below another object that has a NetworkObject. I've seen someone instantiating and spawning an object inside the networkobject Gameobject with a networkObject and then spawning and parenting the item in that object (Good luck)

but I'm not sure if that works

[nocturne vapor]

Using a networkobject for you purpose is probably too much anyway, just send an rpc to all clients and let the weapon spawn locally. The position gets controlled from the animation anyway and if you need network capabilities you can just have them on the root player gameobject

And yea networkobject nestimg is only allowed in certain cases

[real ingot]

are you saying I shouldn't even spawn it, just instantiate the weapon and add client network transform or something?

by send rpc you mean send the thing that got instantiated and make other clients instantiate the weapon and let the client network transform do the job?

[real ingot]

Is that what you we're trying to explain?

[nocturne vapor]

The network transform can only be added to a network object. But if xou attach a weapon to your hand it is mostly moved by animations not by code, so using a network animator will solve your problems

But yea instantiate it not spawn it

[real ingot]

I'll see

[real ingot]

I have found another solution. Tbh there's quite a few solutions to it. I'll show what I did after I do it for anyone struggling with the same thing cause it seems to be a common thing

[wraith violet]

How would i sync one global variable with all clients? I’m having trouble with that

Like, if there was one variable for, let’s just say, who’s turn it is

If i have two players, and player one takes their turn, player two doesn’t get the message

[untold imp]

How can I create own interpolation script to networkTransform?

[untold imp]

Use Network Variable

[fading hazel]

Anyone with some networking knowladge ?
anyone can help me with some basic Networking setup ? i got a basic setup for multiplayer game, i got a moving platform, but can seem to move the players without lag, and when using the Client authoretive movement it has lag, anyone up for a bit of help ?

[wraith violet]

It didn’t work ._.

[fading hazel]

im trying to do a moving platform that players can turn on when it turns on it moves (like a big car) host players behaves well but remote client dosnt move with the moving platform

[wraith violet]

can i get an example of using network variables as a global variable?

[real ingot]

For anyone that has a problem with spawning a GameObject and parent it onto an object of a character some where deep e.g. Hand. Since you can't parent an object in a GameObject that doesn't have a NetworkObject component instead of putting the weapon or spell or something else in the root of the player prefab do this:

• Make a new GameObject in the hierarchy create a new script and assign the script to the GameObject.
• Call an Awake and inside the Awake do DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);.
• Call a public serverRpc with RequireOwnership = false and serverRpcParams = default and call this script in another script where you want to equip a weapon, spell or whatever.
• Inside the ServerRpc do this var clientId = serverRpcParams.Receive.SenderClientId; var client = NetworkManager.ConnectedClients[clientId];
• Make a ClientRpc with parameters ulong playerObjectId somewhere in the same script and call it in the ServerRpc like this ClientRpc(client.PlayerObject.NetworkObjectId);
• Inside the ClientRpc get the parent Transform and Instantiate the weapon/spell then parent it something like this transform.parent = theParent; and then set the position, rotation, scale if you need to (Make sure to do that after parenting the object)

This way every single client in the server will instantiate the weapon on you.

No problemo

If you are making a game where people can join whenever they want don't use this since the players that joins after the object instantiates it's not going to instantiate for the new player. You can maybe try doing something but the best way to do this would probably be simply placing instantiating the object in the player prefab root.

[real ingot]

I have a feeling that there's a way around it though. Like instantiating the weapon for the new player that joins. Maybe have a list that will contain the instantiated weapons and from that list the new player that joins will instantiate all the weapons from that list. I'll try to figure something out.

[covert gull]

Anyone know if Vivox works with non-Unity multiplayer netcode such as FishNet or Photon Fusion?

[untold imp]

Use unity docs

[cosmic echo]

Hello I'm currently working on a player selection system to allow players to view each other's names and stat values(HP/MP). I'm trying to use raycasting to detect player tag, but this only works properly for the client that is running the server.(which doesn't quite make sense to me..) For other clients, the detection field is way off the player model but is somewhat constant, it's as if there's an invisible box above the player model that can't be adjusted. I'm using Fishnet for networking.

Here's part of the relevant code.

    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Tab))
        {
            DeselectPlayer();
        }
        
        Ray ray = cam.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit))
        {
            if (hit.transform.CompareTag("Player"))
            {
                NetworkBehaviour clickedPlayer = hit.transform.GetComponent<NetworkBehaviour>();
                isHover = true;
                if (clickedPlayer != null && clickedPlayer != this && Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Mouse0))
                {
                    SelectPlayer(clickedPlayer);
                }
            }
            else
                isHover = false;
        }


        if (selectedPlayer != null)
        {
            UpdatePlayerInfo();
        }
    }

    public void SelectPlayer(NetworkBehaviour player)
    {
        if (selectedPlayer == player)
            return;

        selectedPlayer = player;
        UpdatePlayerInfo();
    }```

[tacit wadi]

Hello guys!!
I want to ask for a little help.
I'm currently making a small project about library management system.
The deadline for the project is really close and I'm stuck at networking.
I'm making a two projects for the system. One for library managing(Windows) and one for QR code scanner(Android).
The reason why I'm making a QR code scanner is I want to keep tracks of who enter or exit the library.
I got the idea of QR codes. I can scan a visitor's QR code and send it to unity and then to the database.
I used LAN connection with TCP. I tested it and it works really well.
The problem is I can't connect my android(Client) to my pc (Server).
I also can't connect from my friend's pc to my pc. It only works in the same device.
I searched for solutions for my problems, none of them works for me.
There is a interesting article which tell me that I need an access to my router and use port forwarding.
Is it true?I'm only using LAN. I saw some old games use this method. I don't think they need port forwarding or something like that.
One phone turn on hotspot and other player can join the game easily.
I will provide some of my codes. Please, help me.

I used this two scripts for connecting the projects. I got these from Unity forum.

I just have a few days before the deadline. Please, help me.

[supple lodge]

Particle system in netcode for gameobjects

Hello, im developing a realistic fps with multiplayer using netcode for gameobjects.
Im stuck at trying to get the muzzle flash effect to show for the other player, my particle system is attached to the gun and played with this function:

public void shoot_muzzleflash()
{
        muzzleFlash.Play();
        

}

and im activating this function in an animation with an event.
I tried this:

 
[ServerRpc]
    public void CmdStartParticles()
    {
        RpcStart_shoot_muzzleflash();
        shoot_muzzleflash();
    }

    [ClientRpc]
    public void RpcStart_shoot_muzzleflash()
    {
        shoot_muzzleflash();
    }

    public void shoot_muzzleflash()
    {
        muzzleFlash.Play();
        

    } |

but then i cant choose the CmdStartParticles() as an event in the animation

im experienced with unity but not with netcode, so sorry if this is a noob question

[wraith violet]

I’m not that good, but what if you just hooked up another function to the event, that just called cmd start particles

[supple lodge]

im asking how to do it, this doesnt work ive tried that

[abstract copper]

Your PC would have to port forward the port so that the router doesn't block connections, yes. If you could just randomly connect to people over the internet with no safety guards, all hell would break loose, so you have to explicitly tell your device that you are allowing connections on a specific port.

[gleaming zenith]

How are you supposed to parent and unparent Network Objects???

[sharp axle]

https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/advanced-topics/networkobject-parenting/

[gleaming zenith]

I was looking at this but I was still confused with what code would be used to “replace” the setParent and I was also a little confused because I read something about transferring ownership of the network object and I didn’t fully grasp what it meant I will look at the documentation a bit more though

[sharp axle]

calling TrySetParent() on the network object should work. you can check out the Client Driven sample
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/learn/bitesize/bitesize-clientdriven/#reparenting

[gleaming zenith]

Gotcha will try that thanks!

[quiet ginkgo]

Is SteamMatchmaking.RequestLobbyList blocked if you "spam" it by refreshing the list too often? It seems to be the case.
I just spammed it on purpose and it did not block me, so an error must be the cause.

[median gale]

Hello,
I am using PUN2 and Unity version 2021.3.16f1
I have a function called AddCoin(). This is called when the coin collides with the player. The purpose of AddCoin() is to add the amount of coin collected to the current amount of coin the user has.
It works great if the user collects one coin at a time. However, if the user happens to collect 2 coin at almost the same time, then only one coin gets added.
I included a debug log right before SetCustomProperties to see if the coin amount is correct, and the amount appears to be correct.
I read somewhere that SetCustomProperties takes time. Is there I can something I can do to make SetCustomProperties work if the player collides with 2 coins at the same time OR is there another approach I could try?
See Code.Png for AddCoin() implementation
See example.gif for the issue I'm describing. You can see the player collide with two types of coin, $5 and $25. Both coin got hit but the scoreboard only add $5.

[median gale]

I should mention I have a OnPlayerPropertiesUpdate() that sets the coin text in the scoreboard. See OnPlayerPropertiesUpdate.PNG. The GetCoin() function returns the coin that the player has. See GetCoin.PNG.

[median gale]

Did a bit more debugging, it seems like when 2+ coins are collided with the player. Both would read the current amount of coins. For example, say I'm currently at $180, and then I collided with a $25 and a $5. My logic seems to be reading $180 +$25= $205 and then $180+$5=185.
[EDIT]
I placed some breakpoints at where SetCustomProperties is called and where OnPlayerUpdateProperty is called.

What I thought the logic was when colliding with the coin is. Say current amount is $180

1. Collide with 1st Coin
2. SetCustomProperties - add the 1st coin say it's $25
3. OnPlayerPropertiesUpdate() - updates scoreboard - add 1st coin value to current amount. $180+ $25 =$205
4. Collide with 2nd Coin
5. SetCustomProperties - add the 2nd coin say it's $5
6. OnPlayerPropertiesUpdate() - updates scoreboard - add 2nd coin value to current amount. $205 + $5 = $210
7. Result is $210

What is actually happening

1. Collide with 1st Coin
2. SetCustomProperties - add the 1st coin say it's $25
3. Collide with 2nd Coin
4. SetCustomProperties - add the 2nd coin say it's $5
5. OnPlayerPropertiesUpdate() - updates scoreboard - add 1st coin value to current amount $180 + $25 = $205
6. OnPlayerPropertiesUpdate() - updates scoreboard - add 2nd coin value to current amount $180 + $5 = $185
7. Result is $185

So it seems like there is a delay between SetCustomProperty and OnPlayerPropertiesUpdate()

[half anvil]

https://paste.myst.rs/500c49k2

[real ingot]

Figured it out. It's really complicated so if you don't want to suffer, don't do this

[gleaming zenith]

I want to parent a NetWorkObject to a child of my Player Network Object but that doesnt work is their a workaround to parent NetWorkObjects to childs of your playter Network. sorry if this is worded weirdly lol

[untold imp]

Hello, I'm thinking how to deal with player interpolation. When one player shot while moving, another player will see the gap between player one old position (because it is interpolated) and bullet. Do you have and Idea how to fix that?

[nocturne vapor]

You can't do that, what are you trying to do specifically? Like a weapon that is controlled via animation on your hand-bones?

[latent valve]

my client is just floating there when it connects. any idea why?

the client can only look up and down and cannot move or do anything else

[median gale]

Alrighty I'm hitting a wall. Should SetCustomProperties be used for collecting coins in this case? Is it really because of the delay or is there a logic flow I'm missing here?

[nocturne vapor]

you probably have to provide your code, if you want help with figuring out what is wrong

[marble raven]

Hi. I need shutdown server if host disconnects and disconnect client if client disconnects. In server case i understand what i need to do, but what about client, how to disconnect him?

private async void Start()
    {
        await UniTask.WaitUntil(() => UnitContainer.unit != null);
    
        Singleton.OnClientDisconnectCallback += (client) =>
        {
            if (UnitContainer.unit.IsServer)
            {
                Singleton.Shutdown();
            }
            else if (UnitContainer.unit.IsClient)
            {
                // ???
            }
        };
    }

[deep briar]

is it possible to use my own dedicdated server for matchmaking

using Netcode & unity game services

[frigid pilot]

Hello, im triying to collab with my friend with plastic SMC, and when he opens unity hub and search for "Open remote project" the project doesnt show up, even after i added him to the team, i tried a lot of things but nothing seems to work, could anyone help me please?

[white ledge]

is Mirror Networking useful now?
or it is deprecated?

[sharp axle]

Unity Matchmaking currently only works with Unity Server Hosting(Mulitplay)

[spring crane]

Depends on what you want, but it doesn't look deprecated.

Got significant commits within the last 12 hours and the primary author is still selling assets that rely on it

[coral shadow]

Hi, im building a casual game that uses physics and networking.
I added the network object, network rigidbody and clientnetworktransform scripts to my prefab and successfully instanciate and spawn it.
The problem i find is that the scripts that add forces to my rigidbody do not affect it because the rigidbody is automatically set to kinetic.
How am i supposed to solve this?

Removing the network rigidbody seems to "solve" it, but i dont know if this is a good aproach tbh

[sharp axle]

Only the owner can apply forces to their client Network Transform

[gleaming zenith]

I have a similar problem when I'm using a Client Network Transform and use the interpolate option the position of my character is not in the correct spot but when i turn interpolate off it works perfectly is their a way to fix this or should I brute force it and update the position through code?

[pale bloom]

Edit: I have figured it out, ty anyways

Hello, I have a question regarding tcp sockets
I have a server written in python which should accept connections from multiple clients in Unity
on the other side, clients should also receive data from the server

in python I avoid the blocking of socket.recv by using selectors
is there any elegant way of doing it in Unity or should I use select aswell?

I should state that speed is not important here, as it is a turn based game

[sharp axle]

There is a bug in Network Transform. Try enabling "Half Float Precision" on it

[gleaming zenith]

This worked but It looks weird so I'd rather use it as a last resort. Do you know the best way to update the positions manually with a Rpc to test out? (also thanks)

[sharp axle]

Network Transform uses Network Variables under the hood

[gleaming zenith]

O ok I’m probably not gonna use the network transform and make a custom script for updating the player. I might blow up someone’s computer updating the position every frame lol. If u know how to uhh not do that and make a custom script to update the position#s it would be appreciated if not Its fine I appreciated the help

[wraith violet]

how would i send a list<int> though an rpc?

[gleaming zenith]

Could you instead make the list a network variable?

[wraith violet]

i don't think that works

😦

[gleaming zenith]

Ooo my b

[sharp axle]

Network variables only update when they change

[sharp axle]

You can use NatvieList now
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/advanced-topics/serialization/arrays/#nativelistt

[gleaming zenith]

I might be misunderstanding u but could I make the player transform a network variable idk lol

[sharp axle]

You can make the position and rotation into a network variable. they update its value when the player moves

[wraith violet]

so for this, i just add "INetworkSerializable" to the top part? (inherit)?

(sorry if i'm cutting in)

[gleaming zenith]

Oooo that’s perfect 👌thanks I’m gonna go try that

[sharp axle]

yea. your class or struct has to implement INetworkSerializable

[wraith violet]

um

i put "public class PlayerManager : NetworkBehaviour, INetworkSerializable"

i'm getting "'PlayerManager' does not implement interface member 'INetworkSerializable.NetworkSerialize<T>(BufferSerializer<T>)'"

[sharp axle]

not your manager. whatever it is you want to serialize

[wraith violet]

uh

so the array? since i wanna pass a list<int> through an rpc

the rpc is in the class "PlayerManager"

sorry, i'm new to networking

i'm a little confused on how to serialize things, i've never done it before

[sharp axle]

if you just want to send ints then the easier way is to use NetworkList<int> see here
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/basics/networkvariable/#synchronizing-complex-types-example

[wraith violet]

network lists are just like networkvariables, right? it's just that they can hold lists

[sharp axle]

You might even be able to send NativeList<int> directly inside a RPC. I havent actually tried that

[sharp axle]

right they get sent automatically when they get updated

[wraith violet]

hm, interesting

sorry for all the questions

i'm very new

one last question: (hopefully), so since it's a networklist, that means that if a new client joins, they'll have the updated list, right?

[sharp axle]

yes. when they connect they'll get the full list. So its something to watch out for. If it gets too huge late clients could get bogged down

[wraith violet]

ah ok

thank youuuu

if i were to ask questions about networking here, would you often be online at this time

[sharp axle]

sure you can also hit us up on the Unity Netcode Discord

link is in the pin message

[wraith violet]

wait what

whoa, revolutionary

[coral shadow]

Ok thanks! so is this a good approach? Or should I have clients send rpcs to the server to add the forces to their ships?
What if two ships with two different owners collide?

[sharp axle]

You should keep all the physics stuff to the server/host. It may be laggy but it will keep things better in sync

[coral shadow]

Oh ok, so whenever a player hits the forwarded button I should send an rpc on each update?

Sounds intense

Ohh I could use network variables for that, right?

[wraith violet]

um, is something wrong? there's only four channels, and i can't do anything in any of them

[sharp axle]

Physics based game are tough to network

[sharp axle]

You'll need to choose a role first

[wraith violet]

whoops, i thought i already reacted, but i didn't 🤦‍♂️

[sharp axle]

But yea. Net Vars can work for that

[coral shadow]

Yeah, figured it might be hehe, love a challenge!
Thanks for the assist

[wraith violet]

anyway, thanks evilotaku, i'm probably gonna ask you for help a lot in the future!

is it okay if i ping you around this time if i need help?

woo hooo

[ionic mantle]

Hello everyone, could anyone help get my started on how I could have a player press a button and have it teleport ONLY the player who pressed it to a certain spot on the scene? Im using netcode for go btw.

[woeful raven]

hello guys, so i am making fps game and i wanna make the skin and animations invisable to me and appears to the other guys in the game so what can i type in search to have a tutorial im using photon pun 2

[neat veldt]

Are you using the player prefab feature?

[warm lichen]

with netcode for gameobject, theres a player prefab slot you can assign the network gameoibject to spawn on (server launch/ join), but how you do you for more than 1 model ?

[ionic mantle]

Yes, but I may have found a fix myself.

[neat veldt]

You can't have more than one player prefab, but you can spawn network prefabs from the server by listening to NetworkManager.OnClientConnectedCallback

[warm lichen]

kk thanks will check that

[warm lichen]

@neat veldt what im looking to do is, have a different spawn of player prefab depending on what the player chooses, the code to allow the switch of character is ok, but i cant seems to switch player prefab with code before i join a server

[neat veldt]

You need to spawn the players yourself

I believe you can set an object to be the client's player after its spawned

[sharp axle]

https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/basics/connection-approval/#changing-the-player-prefab

[warm lichen]

oh thnks ill look into that

[tidal hemlock]

Hello, I'm having trouble with rotation over the network (kindof) using netcode for gameobjects

I have an object thats being rotated by a client, and the rotation is being syncrhonized as expected on every other client + local client ...

but when I check the rotation through script transform.rotation.x/transform.localrotation.x or the direction transform.forward on other clients it says 0 even though on the inspector for the client (not local client) I can see the rotation from the owner client :\

[regal gull]

Hi, I am trying to use this native library https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets

on my Unity project. I compiled the .dll but since it's native it doesn't get recognised when I build on Android, could someone tell me how to build the library for Unity Android?

[sacred maple]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

using Unity.Netcode;

public class PlayerMovement : NetworkBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 10.0f;



    void Update()
    {
        if (!IsOwner) return;

        float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(moveHorizontal, 0.0f, moveVertical);
        transform.position = transform.position + movement * speed * Time.deltaTime;
    }
}

I have a linux VPS with a game server loaded up via Dedicated Server/Linux build and then a game clients loaded up via Windows on my local PC
The players spawn, but they don't register the other clients movements

player 1 falls -- gets moved to the left

Second window opened, player 2 falls on top of player 1 (whose movement to the left never updated to the server), moves to the right. First window shows player 2 idle on top of player 1's previous position

[shrewd junco]

i suggest u start by following some tutorial like CodeMonkeys netcode tutorial. it covers the very basics including movement/syncing locations

[sacred maple]

@shrewd junco I'm already stuck...

I can't drag the player to the prefab slot and the prefab list

Only the prefab slot

[shrewd junco]

ah that part was changed, you need to drag the default network prefab list (from your assets folder) into that

and you put your player inside the default network prefab list itself as well

pretty sure thats like the only difference

[sacred maple]

Sorry so

"Default Network Prefab List" where is this?

[warm lichen]

you need to create a network prefab list

[sacred maple]

Create a list in my assets folder? Or a folder in my assets folder

I've never made a list in my assets folder

[shrewd junco]

it should just be created by default, but if not then yea right click in your assets folder

itll be there under netcode

[sacred maple]

Thanks 🙂

[warm lichen]

im not sure why all the tutorails shows the default player prefab method how usefull is this , to have the players all look the same look

[shrewd junco]

because the tutorial is just about getting netcode setup, they arent gonna go into connection approval (for changing the prefab) or custom spawning when people don't know how to move yet

[warm lichen]

true, but still no tutorials on that

im not good with documentation that is sorta vague

[shrewd junco]

what i said is pretty much just how u would do it

[shrewd junco]

https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/basics/connection-approval/
you can change the prefab in here

    // The Prefab hash value of the NetworkPrefab, if null the default NetworkManager player Prefab is used
    response.PlayerPrefabHash = null;

that part

[warm lichen]

i followed a tutorial that make sure connection aproval wroks,, i can move and animation network authoritive i just need to change player prefab so they dont look the same for every player, sec ill check your link

[shrewd junco]

if you scroll down, theres a part "changing the player prefab"

[warm lichen]

i did try to follow that but i ant make it to work

not sure if the script needs to be on network object

someone sent this earlier

[shrewd junco]

yea just place the script on an object in your scene, give it a network object, and then follow the 2 steps listed. With the example on the docs, you may have to give some payload data. You can also get it working by just choosing a random index to give the player

instead of doing
var playerPrefabIndex = System.BitConverter.ToInt32(request.Payload);
just assign that to some random one for now to see if it works

[sacred maple]

Sorry @shrewd junco

WASD doesn't work when I launch client

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

using Unity.Netcode;

public class PlayerMovement : NetworkBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 10.0f;



    void Update()
    {
        if (!IsOwner) return;
        Debug.Log("Owner");
        float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(moveHorizontal, 0.0f, moveVertical);
        transform.position = transform.position + movement * speed * Time.deltaTime;
    }
}

[shrewd junco]

the axis probably does work, id assume its an issue with the actual movement. if you have it as server authoritative movement, then the client wont be able to move anything

[sacred maple]

Where is this setting King?

I don't see it in the Network Manager, Network Transport, or Network Object

[shrewd junco]

server authoritative movement would mean you are using a network transform

[sacred maple]

Ahh...

[shrewd junco]

if theres no network transform or client network transform, your position/rotation/scale wont be synced across the network

unless you wrote your own custom one

[sacred maple]

Should I use client network transform then?

And remove Network Transform?

[shrewd junco]

if you want client authoritative movement then yea

[tidal hemlock]

Anyone have any idea by any chance?

[shrewd junco]

you are checking the x component of the quaternion, the inspector is showing you euler angles

[sacred maple]

It's working 🙂

Thank you so much

Do you think the issue was the pre fab list then?

I tried client transform before to no avail

[shrewd junco]

i cant really say without knowing the exact setup at the time, as long as it works though and you understand the setup then youll be fine for the future

[tidal hemlock]

Oh so transform.rotation.x and transform.forward are all based on the quaternion?
Are those not not synced with Network Transform? (I tried setting the quaternion synchronization on the component but didnt fix the issue)

[shrewd junco]

rotations themselves use quaternions, but the rotation.x is the x component of a quaternion. In the inspector you are seeing the rotation.eulerAngles.x

the forward is just a vector

[sharp axle]

rotation is synced with Network Transform. But there is a bug in it currently that sometimes effects the y axis. Try setting the Network Transform to "Enable Half Float Precision"

[tidal hemlock]

Oh will try that thanks, it is the y-axis the only one thats being affected for me

[ionic mantle]

Hello everyone. I am having an issue where I am using Netcode for GO and my player prefab that has a Client Network Transform. Attached to the base player prefab is a camera holder then a weapon object. The problem is that only the base player is visible to other players in the game. The client itself can see the weapon, but other players cannot see the weapon. Do I need to have a Client Network Transform on the weapon too? Am I missing something here?

[sharp axle]

If the weapon is not already part of the base prefab then it will need to be spawned and reparented to the player

[ionic mantle]

I figured, thanks.

[gleaming zenith]

Is it possible to enable and disable a Network Transform through code at runtime?

[sharp axle]

You should be able to disable the component

[gleaming zenith]

I thought so but when I tried to access the component it wouldn’t pop up and when I looked online I couldn’t find anything. Maybe I wasn’t accessing it right because I was trying gameobject.GetComponent<> and looked for the Network Transform but couldn’t find it but maybe I’m just being stupid

[viral locust]

I'm having an issue with Rpc :x

I run the server and then I run the client

in the client, I have a UI button to simulate the "login" button; when that button is clicked, I call a method that has the NetworkManager.Singleton.StartClient();

after invoking the NetworkManager StartClient, I have this line that returns null
FindObjectsByType<Player>(FindObjectsSortMode.None)

will FindObjectsByType only work once the method that starts the client ends?

if I press the button again, the FindObjectsByType<Player> does return the player

[sharp axle]

You should wait until OnNetworkSpawn() to call any RPCs. If you are calling find objects immediately after StartClient, then the player hasn't spawned yet

[viral locust]

ty ty will give it a try

[zinc crow]

Hey Im having a problem with my NetworkRigidbody.
Im using Unity Version 2022.3.5f1 and Netcode for Gameobjects 1.4.4 . I have one Player prefab with my Movement Script and a Network Rigidbody. On the host side everything works and the Rigidbodys are isKinematic = false but on the Client side its isKinematic = true. I dont know why. I tried to set the IsKinematic in the Await or the OnNetworkSpawn but both didnt work.

[deep briar]

how can i make change scene on finish matchmaking

[ionic mantle]

Hello everyone. I am having an issue where I am using Netcode for GO and my issue is that each player in a game has a gun and whenever they fire that gun it spawns a prefab of a bullet/projectile but I want to be able to syncronize those bullets over the network so that whenever a bullet hits a player that player knows and I also have a script where whenever a player gets hit with said bullet it kills them so I need these bullets to be networked. To go fourth in doing this would it be as simple as adding a network object and client network transform to each prefab, I am also using Relay so would relay interfere with that since im not sure if it automatically adds that bullet to the relay session. Anybody got any ideas. Im not even sure that the best way to detect if a player is hit by a bullet is just to check if it was collided with an object with a bullet tag. Thanks!

[ionic mantle]

I had tried a raycast previously but I ran into the same issue of how can I let others players know that they have been hit by the raycast.

[shrewd junco]

thats what a network rigidbody does, it sets rigidbodies to kinematic when you are not the owner of it. If you're not the owner, you don't need to do calculations for it because you wont be updating its transform or other variables anyways

[shrewd junco]

the server would have to send out some rpc to clients to inform them

[ionic mantle]

I figured. I have never really understood ServerRPC's tbh.

[shrewd junco]

its something u just need to play around with, it gets especially confusing if you dont know where its running.
a server rpc (remote procedure call) means you are remotely calling the server to a procedure. To simplify: you are telling the server to run some code. Only a client can call this (a host is a client and server, so hosts can call it).

in your case you would likely want a client rpc, so the server is telling the clients that someone got hit.

[ionic mantle]

Thank you.

[thorny gale]

is there a way of loading addressable scenes with NGO

[nocturne vapor]

addition to that only the server can call that
@ionic mantle

[mint anvil]

quick question should i switch from mirror to fish-net ?

[normal peak]

I am using a player controller that uses to separate camera holder and player how will i use it as a prefab for photon pun 2

[sharp axle]

https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/learn/bitesize/bitesize-dynamicPrefabs/

[fluid walrus]

that's for prefabs, last i checked NetworkSceneManager basically has no addressables support yet so your options are to turn it off and do scene management manually or to go modify the NGO code yourself to hack it

[sharp axle]

Ah, you're right. Addressable scenes are not supported yet. I remember seeing it on the roadmap

[lean latch]

does anyone know what mirror's networkserver.active equivalent for netcode?

[sharp axle]

I think NetworkManager.IsListening is what you're looking for

[ionic mantle]

Hello everyone. So I am having an issue with a ServerRPC. I finally decided to learn how to use it yet im still after all this time still confused. This https://pastebin.com/xWh5yjLS is my code for Instantiating a bullet. The 4th line just created a game object (a projectile) and instantiates it and then spawns it at the firePoint. Then on the 6th line it gets the RigidBody of that projectile and makes it go fast like a bullet. But Unity is yelling at me telling me that it does not know how to serialize or deserialize UnityEngine.Transform.RPC. I new to networking and have no idea what that means so I looked it up and it told me to add INetworkSerializable after the class and I did then untiy yelled at me again saying it does not know how to implement a surface member of INetworkSerializable and I am unable to figure out why after looking it up, again I dont know at all what a INetworkSerializable is or why I need to use it.

[icy prairie]

try calling with just the data you need like Vector3 position etc to the RPC instead of the whole Transform, it complains about INetworkSerializable because RPCs can not take references in arguments only data types like primitives and structs

[ionic mantle]

Makes sense. Thanks

[gleaming zenith]

using the NetworkManager.SceneManager.LoadScene im trying to load into another scene the only problem is the server host loads in way before the clients even when load scene time out is set to 0 is their a way to make it so the scene only loads when all the clients are ready? the line im using to load the scene is below
NetworkManager.Singleton.SceneManager.LoadScene("MiniGame", LoadSceneMode.Single);

[sharp axle]

I believe the scene event LoadEventCompleted will tell you when all clients have finished loading the new scene
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/basics/scenemanagement/scene-events/#scene-event-notifications

[gleaming zenith]

Im currently trying to use that but I've never used something like that before so im struggling to figure out how to set it up so it would function something like this WaitWhile(SceneEventType.LoadEventCompleted); (i know its not a method but u get what i mean)

yield return new WaitWhile(() => SceneEventType.LoadEventCompleted.Equals(true)); I just did this I have no clue if this will work heres trying

[sharp axle]

No, you subscribe to NetworkSceneManager.OnSceneEvent like in the code smaple there. Then you can test if the scene event is LoadEventCompleted. After that you can continue running the scene

[gleaming zenith]

oohh ok also thanks for the responses over the past few days you have been helping me out a crazy amount I appreciate it ur the goat

[gleaming zenith]

sry to bother again but im struggling from dumbness ive been trying a bunch of different ways but I dont know why I cant subscribe to the event this is what i have been doing...
NetworkManager.Singleton.SceneManager.OnSceneEvent += SceneManager_OnSceneEvent;
TLDR how do I create the SceneManager_OnSceneEvent; in my script

[vagrant elm]

I have created a multiplayer game using two separate Unity Editors, and have successfully connected to a Pun2 server. How can I connect both editors to the same room?

[sharp axle]

That's a function you create yourself. It just needs to have SceneEvent as an argument

[woven cliff]

Im using Lobby by unity can anyone help me fix this? providing code and console screenshot

    public async Task CreateLobby(string lobbyName, bool isPrivate, string playerName)
    {
        Debug.Log("Creating Lobby");

        Debug.Log(lobbyName);
        Debug.Log(isPrivate.ToString());
        Debug.Log(playerName);

        try
        {
            Debug.Log("1");
            CreateLobbyOptions options = new CreateLobbyOptions()
            {
                IsPrivate = isPrivate,
                Player = CreateLobbyPlayer(playerName),
            };
            Debug.Log("2");
            Lobby lobby = await LobbyService.Instance.CreateLobbyAsync(lobbyName, maxPlayersPerLobby, options);
            Debug.Log("3");
            hostLobby = lobby;
            Debug.Log("4");
            StartCoroutine(StartLobbyHeartBeat());

            Debug.Log("Created Lobby");
        }
        catch(LobbyServiceException e)
        {
            Debug.Log(e.Message);
        }
    }

[woven cliff]

i think i found the issue

im logging in to slow

how do i fix this?

fixed it by making a while !ready loop that waits 1 second untill ready is true and i set ready to true after logging in

[swift belfry]

Hello everyone, I’m having trouble with ServerRpc and ClientRpc methods not getting called

If anyone could help me out I would appreciate it!
The following code is attached to NetworkObject and the script is NetworkBehaviour:

// Is called from button click listener
private void ReadyToPlay()
    {
        isLocalPlayerReady = true;
        OnLocalPlayerReadyChanged?.Invoke(this, EventArgs.Empty);
        Debug.Log("CALLING RPC ");
        SetPlayerReadyServerRpc();
        Debug.Log("FINISH RPC ");
    }

[ServerRpc(RequireOwnership = false)]
    private void SetPlayerReadyServerRpc(ServerRpcParams serverRpcParams = default)
    {
        Debug.Log("IN SERVER RPC, ID: ");
        Debug.Log(serverRpcParams.Receive.SenderClientId);
        playerReadyDictionary[serverRpcParams.Receive.SenderClientId] = true;

        bool allClientsReady = true;
        foreach (ulong clientId in NetworkManager.Singleton.ConnectedClientsIds)
        {
            if (!playerReadyDictionary.ContainsKey(clientId) || !playerReadyDictionary[clientId])
            {
                //Player not ready
                allClientsReady = false;
                break;
            }
        }
        
        Debug.Log("All players ready: " + allClientsReady);
    }

// Even these test ones don't work
[ServerRpc(RequireOwnership = false)]
    private void TestServerRpc(ServerRpcParams serverRpcParams = default)
    {
        Debug.Log("TEST SERVER RPC");
    }

    [ClientRpc]
    private void TestClientRpc(ClientRpcParams clientRpcParams = default)
    {
        Debug.Log("TEST CLIENT RPC");
    }

(I sometimes get this error too: [Netcode] Deferred messages were received for a trigger of type OnSpawn with key 0, but that trigger was not received within within 1 second(s).)
I am trying them as host and client with no success. Thanks again!

[shrewd junco]

that [Netcode] Deferred messages thing should just be a warning not an error. I believe it happens when someone tries to update a value on an object that you despawn/respawned. Maybe theres more cases, but im not sure why you get it here.
Can you show your entire code? If your rpc's arent calling, the issue likely isnt in this code

the reasons its not calling is likely due to the network object changing ID's

[swift belfry]

Yea sure it's a little long tho:

[shrewd junco]

use a !code website itll be easier

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[swift belfry]

perfect will do that now

[shrewd junco]

maybe try to separate out some things that you know arent relevant

is there anything that is calling despawn/spawn on this object

[swift belfry]

Nope nothing

https://paste.myst.rs/d9m4adck

[shrewd junco]

you should definitely separate out some of this logic, will make it a LOT easier to debug. seems like most of this is related to game mechanics

when you call the RPC, can you look at the network object ID and just see if it changes?

[swift belfry]

Yea I'm doing that now 😅

[swift belfry]

Sure one second

[shrewd junco]

with the amount of logic in here, its hard to see if anythings really disabling/enabling or respawning the object but from what i saw it doesnt look like it

also when u are testing this, are u checking debugs on the host/server?

[swift belfry]

Oh wow, when it gets time to call for that it gives me where the network object is a "Spawn" button

[swift belfry]

yep

[shrewd junco]

are u spawning this GameplayManager then dynamically, aka its not in the scene when u press play

[swift belfry]

It is attached to an empty object that is SetActive(false) by default and when they get to a specific part it goes SetActive(true)

But not spawning through server

[shrewd junco]

i forgot how network objects work when that happens, let me try something

[swift belfry]

Thank you!

[shrewd junco]

regardless the issue is still just that its not spawned/despawning somehow

which u can fix by calling the .Spawn() function

the only thing is something like this should be spawned already

[swift belfry]

Yea that's why I didn't think that would be an issue

[swift belfry]

Will try that now thanks!

[shrewd junco]

ah yea i just tried, if its inactive when you start the scene its not spawned

which makes sense

[swift belfry]

So instead of SetActive(true) do I use the Spawn() function? or both?

[shrewd junco]

I think you have to do both

[swift belfry]

Thanks so much fr I'll try that now and if something is still up I'll ping here!

[shrewd junco]

the order shouldnt matter as long as this is after the network manager is listening

u can also ask in the ngo discord pinned in here. a lot more gets answered in there

[swift belfry]

Oh didn't even know there was one, will join

[woven cliff]

in netcode for game object can i not spawn the player objects as soon as the game starts and only later when i call a function if not can i not spawn player objects and then asign a player object to a player? i have code taht works by getting the player object so woud be helpful if someone cud help to find an answer

[lunar urchin]

hey guys looking for experts in UX/UI for VR

[oak flower]

@lunar urchin If you are looking to ask a question, ask in #📲┃ui-ux , if you are looking for !collab:

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[viral locust]

all the network tutorials I see for a mmorpg is either with lobbies or steam ids...

what's the best way to host my server in a 3rd party platform, like amazon or w/e, and make the client connect to the server?

[viral locust]

I did read about fishnet and the asset is free, right?

[oak flower]

There's no limitation to relation with those. Any of the solutions allow you to run your own server. Check the pins for tutorials and links.

[viral locust]

will have a look on this

ty

[oak flower]

@drowsy thistle !collab for job posts etc.

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📢 Collaborating and Job Posting

We do not accept job or collab posts on discord.
Please use the forums:
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• Commercial Job Offering
• Non Commercial Collaboration

[shrewd junco]

you would have to remove the player prefab from the network manager. then handle your own spawning with SpawnAsPlayer()

[woven cliff]

Alr ty

[cunning sluice]

So I'm having an issue with PUN 2
I enable the Offline Mode but it doesn't seem to use the callback OnConnectedToMaster like it says in the documentation.
I have a Debug Log in there that is never called, but it definitely sets the photon network to offline right away in Awake as long as I have the bool enabled.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

    private void Awake()
    {
        if (offlineMode)
        {
            PhotonNetwork.OfflineMode = true;
            //InitConnect();
            return;
        }

        //Player is already connected to the network, just return
        if (PhotonNetwork.IsConnected) return;

        //If it's a first boot, get mic permissions
        if (askForMicPermission && !Permission.HasUserAuthorizedPermission(Permission.Microphone))
        {
            Permission.RequestUserPermission(Permission.Microphone);
        }

        //Start the connection
        InitConnect();

    }

    public void InitConnect()
    {
        ConnectToServer();
    }

    public void ConnectToServer()
    {
        PhotonNetwork.ConnectUsingSettings();
        PhotonNetwork.GameVersion = GAME_VERSION;
        PhotonNetwork.ConnectToRegion(DEFAULT_REGION);

        Debug.Log("Attempting Connection to Server");
    }

    public override void OnConnectedToMaster()
    {
        Debug.Log("Connected To Network!");

        //Connecting to the Lobby to load active lobbies
        PhotonNetwork.JoinLobby();
    }

[bleak rover]

Hi, what might be the reason why client is so laggy? i tried everything i know but its stilll laggy. theres no lag for host btw. Im using photon fusion

[woven cliff]

im using lobby by unity and if i try to join a lobby from a second instance of the editor it tells me im already in the lobby is that becose im on the same pc?

[sharp axle]

Yes, you need to switch authentication profiles when signing in anonymously
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/tutorials/testing/testing_locally/#ugs-authentication

[woven cliff]

Ty

Also how can I run code when someone joins the lobby

[sharp axle]

You would use lobby events
https://docs.unity.com/ugs/en-us/manual/lobby/manual/lobby-events

[woven cliff]

But they don't exist tho

I tried a person had the same problem in this discord it also didn't existed for them

[sharp axle]

If you are using an older version of lobby then youll have to poll for updates with getLobbyAsync()

[woven cliff]

I think in using newset

Not home rn I will try when I get back

@swift pendant this guy might know how to fix your problem

[swift pendant]

hi, do you know how to use the latest version? I can't upgrade it from 1.0.3 to higher versions using unity package manager

[sharp axle]

Oh it might still still be in preview. You should be able to add it by name and specify the version. 1.1 I think
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.services.samples.game-lobby#ugs-events-beta-note

[swift pendant]

yeah thanks, but 1.1 didn't work, I used 1.1.0-pre.5

@woven cliff so add it with name, package manager add by name:
name: com.unity.services.lobby
version: 1.1.0-pre.5

[woven cliff]

Tysm was a pleasure cooperating with you I try it as soon as I get home

[cunning sluice]

I figured out the issue, it would connect to master without calling the callback, so I just had to manually join a room after it connected

[somber geode]

Hey i Wanna send From my phone App Data to the server which Runs my Game. The App is Build With js and i dont know How to approach this

Making it With sockets Would be an Option But Would Like to make it With a Unity Solution that Deals With data transfer

[gleaming zenith]

How do you send information to a specific client? when trying this code and plugging in the targetId of a different client nothing gets received on the other client.
UpdatePlayerPositionClientRpc(transform.position, new ClientRpcParams
{
Send = new ClientRpcSendParams
{
TargetClientIds = new ulong[] { TargetId.GetComponent<NetworkObject>().NetworkObjectId }
}
});

[shrewd junco]

you want the OwnerClientID

id also just cache that client rpc params into a ClientRpcParams clientRpcParams
then call the function with UpdatePlayerPositionClientRpc(transform.position, clientRpcParams);
would be a lot cleaner on the eyes at least

plus you can save some memory allocations if your target id doesnt change often

[gleaming zenith]

Thanks that worked!

[woven cliff]

in unity lobby how do i run code when someone joins any lobby cus doing it when someone presses the join button is error prone cus there are multiple

cus from what i understand subscribing to events require the player to already by in some lobby

[mighty whale]

So is it not true that player objects are assigned their own ownership?

https://hatebin.com/bnwtuecrqy

Thats what im currently working with. Using client network transform

[shrewd junco]

You can view ownership details in the inspector on the clients, clients are given ownership of their player objects. If they weren't, you wouldnt be able to know which was yours. Your code is checking too early I believe, since it may be running before any network stuff has been setup. You should check OnNetworkSpawn

[shrewd junco]

Also what you are doing in update looks very very wrong. You are adding code to an event every single frame by the looks of it, yet never removing any so this is gonna grow very quickly. The formatting of this seems very... different too

[mighty whale]

Sorry, it’s very dirty code, I’m still in the prototyping phase but thank you for the insight

Ohhh and that makes sense

[shrewd junco]

You should probably look at some single player stuff first, multiplayer in itself is a lot harder if you dont have a good coding background

[mighty whale]

Actually I’ve already completed multiple projects

Again, it’s prototype code, it’s not intended to be perfect, just enough to get things running

I use KR formatting, and I try to use Microsoft’s coding conventions.

As a matter of fact I’ve been working in Unity for two years now so savage

If I want to make multiplayer games I’ll need to make the step at some point

[shrewd junco]

Didnt mean anything as an insult, sorry if it seemed so. I just generally assume people are beginners in this server

[mighty whale]

No worries, to be fair Id think the same with lambda events assigning in a loop

I’m fairly embarrassed that’s in there

I’ve been meaning to refactor this into 3 scripts anyways so maybe I’ll do that tomorrow.

[mighty whale]

I figured the ownership was the issue because at first it was setting it to kinematic.

I should’ve looked at the method execution order before asking the question.

[small hamlet]

I want to make a skill based matchmaking system using photon.

Currently I have done so by

-> get all active rooms in lobby
-> filter all the rooms and only look at ones that are near my skill level
-> try finding a room who's MMR is close to mine
-> if can't find after 5 seconds, create a room

Is there a better way of achieving it?

[woven cliff]

in unity lobby how do i run code when someone joins any lobby cus doing it when someone presses the join button is error prone cus there are multiple

[woven cliff]

also in unity gaming services can i somehow log into a anonomys account with a specific id? so i cud use it accros multiple deveices?

[somber geode]

Would also increase the Potential fitting skill Levels. So Over Time you will atleast Find a room

[small hamlet]

Yeah I ended up doing that only 😅

Filter rooms every 1-2 seconds and increase skill level range with each iterations

Try to filter x times, if found any room just join right away otherwise create my own

@somber geode I used photon

[woeful raven]

so im using photon pun and i wanna make it instantiate one gun in random place but it instantiate a gun for every player and idk why

this is the script:

    public GameObject gun;
    public float minX , maxX , minY , maxY , minZ , maxZ;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
         Vector3 randomPosition = new Vector3(Random.Range(minX, maxX), Random.Range(minY, maxY), Random.Range(minZ, maxZ));
         Debug.Log($"Spawning at: {randomPosition}", gameObject);
         Instantiate(gun, randomPosition , Quaternion.identity);
    }

[spring crane]

Do you have anything that would prevent Start from running on all clients? Probably want to make sure to only run this sort of stuff on the masterclient.

[tawdry walrus]

private NetworkVariable<List<Card>> deckSync = new NetworkVariable<List<Card>>(); how i can create a networklist to manage a deck ?

i'm using relay and ngo

[frank stream]

check my reply

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[tawdry walrus]

how i can extend INetworkSerializable in my card class? is correct extend MonoBehaviour?

@frank stream pls u can help me, pls i need this game for university exam

[frank stream]

did you look at the example ?

/// </summary>
public struct AreaWeaponBooster : INetworkSerializable, System.IEquatable<AreaWeaponBooster>

that's how you do it, look at the example

how do you have an exam on this but have no knowledge how to extend from a class implementation

[tawdry walrus]

yes i see the example but i have class not struct, i convert my class in struct, and this example i try before but not work for me

[frank stream]

because struct are better suited for network transfer

you can just change it to struct, not much will change

Reference types are part of complex types though, make sure you read up on that too

[tawdry walrus]

yes i try but my english is not so good and example page is difficolt

[frank stream]

then why do you have an exam on this ? have you coded a game before?

[tawdry walrus]

no never i code game but in my university last year we need 2 facoltative exam and game developer is a interresting

[System.Serializable]
public struct Card : INetworkSerializable {

public string cardName;
public Sprite image;
public int maxCard;
public Heat heat;
public Cash cash;
public Protection protection;
public Nirvana nirvana;
public Maledizioni maledizioni;
public Effects effects;
public bool inDeck;
public bool onBoard;
public int usedCards;
public GameObject UIimage;

public void NetworkSerialize<T>(BufferSerializer<T> serializer) where T : IReaderWriter
{
    if (serializer.IsReader)
    {
        var reader = serializer.GetFastBufferReader();
        reader.ReadValueSafe(out cardName);
        reader.ReadValueSafe(out maxCard);
        reader.ReadValueSafe(out heat);
        reader.ReadValueSafe(out cash);
        reader.ReadValueSafe(out protection);
        reader.ReadValueSafe(out nirvana);
        reader.ReadValueSafe(out maledizioni);
        reader.ReadValueSafe(out effects);
        reader.ReadValueSafe(out inDeck);
        reader.ReadValueSafe(out onBoard);
        reader.ReadValueSafe(out usedCards);
        reader.ReadValueSafe(out UIimage);
    }
    else
    {
        var writer = serializer.GetFastBufferWriter();
        writer.ReadValueSafe(out cardName);
        writer.ReadValueSafe(out maxCard);
        writer.ReadValueSafe(out heat);
        writer.ReadValueSafe(out cash);
        writer.ReadValueSafe(out protection);
        writer.ReadValueSafe(out nirvana);
        writer.ReadValueSafe(out maledizioni);
        writer.ReadValueSafe(out effects);
        writer.ReadValueSafe(out inDeck);
        writer.ReadValueSafe(out onBoard);
        writer.ReadValueSafe(out usedCards);
        writer.ReadValueSafe(out UIimage);
    }
}

my new struct

but i have this

write is wrong

[frank stream]

well you picked the wrong part of game development
networking is extremely difficult to start with , let alone in a game setting where every bit matters

[woven cliff]

how can i delete a username password account cus i accidently deleted the player ID assosiated with it and i need to either assign a new one or just delete the username password and make it again how can i do that? using unity gamking services btw

[tawdry walrus]

eeeem i know but i work on this from 2 mouth and i cant change now

[frank stream]

wowz why did you wait so long? didn't you realize networking was extremely difficult?
Idk mate you're in a difficult spot cause you're trying to race a F1 car without knowing how to drive

[frank stream]

username and password from what?

[woven cliff]

unity gaming services

method of authentication

[frank stream]

#archived-unity-gaming-services

[woven cliff]

i posted there 10s of times i havent got a response once

[tawdry walrus]

your example is perfect but i need a card game so easy, not a rpg not a fps card game

u can help me ?

[frank stream]

easier certainly but not Easy for networking.. how long do you have?

[tawdry walrus]

i need this for december or next year

[frank stream]

ok did you build out the single player portion first at least?

[tawdry walrus]

i think i do singleplayer after i need change to much

i create strcut without error now but i use card class to link with gameobject now with struct i cant, is uselles link?

[frank stream]

singleplayer comes first because it's easier and might help instill some good experience before transferring that same data over the wire

[tawdry walrus]

I really appreciate the advice but I think I should do the multiplayer version directly for timing

[nocturne vapor]

You would never do this
Here are the steps for a new feature in a multipler game
-think of a new feature
-prototype the new feature in singleplayer
-implement the feature in singleplayer while allowing the code to be easily modified for multiplayer use
-start syncing smaller parts of that feature
-test them
-slowly make the whole feature work over netcode while testing it

[ionic mantle]

So I have a network variable that looks like this

public NetworkVariable<int> health = new NetworkVariable<int>(
    value: 120,
    NetworkVariableReadPermission.Everyone,
    NetworkVariableWritePermission.Owner);

and what happens is that whenever a person shoots someone it subtracts the health by the amount of damage a gun does. Then when it detects the players health is under 0 it kills them then resets their health back to normal. A client shooting a host works just fine and nothing goes wrong. But a host shooting a client does not work and the host gets the error Client is not allowed to write to this network variable even though the write permission is set to owner and the read is everyone. I also tried using Server instead of owner and it worked kinda, the host was able to shoot the client and the client was able to shoot the host but their health never got reset back to 0 and on the client this time was saying the client was not allowed to write to the network variable.

[woeful raven]

how can i make it im beginner

[woven cliff]

in unity lobby how do i run code when someone joins a lobby?

[woven cliff]

I mena when a person joins a lobby for the first time after booting the game

[nocturne vapor]

pretty easy write the health in a serverr rpc

void playerGetsShot() {
  int damage = 7;
  //rest of your code
  applyDamageServerRpc(damage);
}

//this runs completly on the server
[ServerRpc(RequireOwnership = false)] // so you don't need to be owner of the object, you can also change that
void applyDamageServerRpc(int damage) {
  health.Value -= damage;
}

[drowsy pelican]

hi everyone, this is my code https://pastebin.com/6evr2u5J I put in Unity transport my local address and tried to connect to the host from another computer from the same network, but couldn't. Any idea why ?

[shrewd junco]

have you seen the code monkey tutorial? He covers this slightly at the end, where he connects on his laptop

[drowsy pelican]

Yeah I checked it, but got same issue when trying to connect to host

you talk about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swIM2z6Foxk ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yuBOB3VrCk&t=3409s

this sorry

[shrewd junco]

yea that one was what i was referring to

[drowsy pelican]

theorically you just need change the ip address to my local ip address

[shrewd junco]

maybe you have to enable allow remote connections, sorry i havent specifically done this. Id just double check to make sure the address is correct, and that the client is trying to connect to the correct address as well

[drowsy pelican]

I thiked about this also, but in his tutorial he didn't activate it

[shrewd junco]

i dont think it was a thing back then, his doesnt seem to have the option

[drowsy pelican]

"it is recommended to leave remote connections disabled for local testing t avoid exposing ports on your device"

[woven cliff]

In unity lobby how do I run code when you join a lobby for example to show the in lobby ui

[nocturne vapor]

you need to expose your ports, if it is doing what I'm thinking

also if you are developing on windows, it could be that you need to change some firewall settings

[cloud cape]

hey guys I am doing Photon PUN2 multiplayer game, first player creates a room then joins a game, second joins room and then the game, my problem is when the second player joins, his avatar spawns twice(when you are first player then you spawn correctly only once)
this is my code

the script is attached on a gameobject that is already on the map, so it instantiates the player, when he loads the scene

[drowsy pelican]

For local network also i need configure router ?

[nocturne vapor]

oh that is what is meant by that, I thought it was a button/checkboxing blocking incomming traffic, no you don't need that
than it will most probably be a firewall issue

[cloud cape]

please

[drowsy pelican]

I disabled it. Is it Allow Remote_Connection ? I have to enable it maybe ?

[cloud cape]

ok got it

[nocturne vapor]

did it work?

[drowsy pelican]

It seems working with only one computer, i need wait this evening to try on my other computer

only in one computer*

[drowsy pelican]

@nocturne vapor ok I tried, still the same problem

ok finally I found the solution

activate Allow Remote_Connection + disable firewall

[nova linden]

i need to spawn a gameobject, but only the server is able to do so, the logical solution is to create a ServerRPC funktion. But here comes the problem, the server rpc funktion cant use refrences required to spawn objects

am i missing something ?

[gleaming zenith]

you can use a ulong to send a gameobject in the Rpc function

[nova linden]

thank you, do you know how i can disable a gameobject that is a child of a network object so that it is disabled on all clients aswell ?

[gleaming zenith]

I dont know if this is correct but if you call a server rpc that calls a clientRpc with the gameobject I think that would work

I keep getting this error when trying to use the NetworkAnimator when I click on the error its telling me that
m_NetworkAnimatorStateChangeHandler on the actual NetworkAnimator script NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
does anyone know how to fix?

[mighty whale]

So I think Praetor is suggesting I should move this issue here.

Networking Solution: UNGO

Issue:
So currently my player uses the PlayerInput and InputAction systems, along with Cinemachines free look component. When new players connect the camera pans over to the most recent player that connected, But as far as I understand this shouldnt happen as the camera is not a synced object, thus its a bug.

Intent:
My camera should maintain its currently viewed character in each instance of the game. My current solution that does not work is:

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/uzugubimax.csharp

[raw thorn]

Have you raised the priority of the virtual camera component for the player the camera should follow?

[mighty whale]

They are the same prefab, so no

[raw thorn]

I put in my playerscript something like ```[SerializeField] private CinemachineVirtualCamera virtualCamera;
[SerializeField] private int cameraPriority = 11;

if (IsOwner)
{
virtualCamera.Priority = cameraPriority;
}```

So if you're the owner of the gameobject then the camera stays with you, else it just swaps over to the newest player I think. If I'm understanding your problem correctly.

[mighty whale]

You are so correct, It was so obvious, and I hate my life

I shouldve known

Thank you so much

[raw thorn]

I wouldn't have known either if the course I did last month didn't tell me 😛 You're welcome.

[mighty whale]

I dont normally work with cinemachine, but its got a lot of baked in features I shouldnt reinvent so thanks for the help

[nocturne vapor]

You should normally deactivate the camera per default and enable it only for the spawned local player
Same goes for all the components that go along with it, like the cinemachine brain

Same for ui btw

[raw thorn]

Yeah that might even be better, my solution was more based on having just 1 camera in the entire scene, but I see now that you've placed the camera on your prefab .

[mighty whale]

My camera is on the scene level

my cinemachine freelook is on the character

the view you see is the prefab level

[raw thorn]

ah ok, the camera object is just an empty then 🙂

[mighty whale]

Yes

Well no

its the parent

oh yeah its empty in terms of components

[young stag]

I can't find the checkbox 😦

[nocturne vapor]

you probably need to do it via c# script, so in your network script

[young stag]

I can't find the desired property or method in NetworkManager.Singleton

[nova linden]

If i destroy network objects there are still ghosts of them frozen in time on all other clients

Even if i call the networkobject.despawn funktion

[rose lake]

whats a good udp libary do yall recommend that has built in reliable/unreliable data

[shrewd junco]

answering that last question in #💻┃code-beginner here is how you can send custom data with unitys netcode for gameobjects.
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/basics/networkvariable/
then rpc's have a reliable/unreliable version
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/advanced-topics/message-system/reliability/

[rose lake]

so how would i have the server call an rpc on the client when the server and client are in a different project?

[shrewd junco]

you'll probably want to ask in the netcode discord pinned in here, im not too familiar with if theres any differences between making a server vs client build

[meager rain]

Anyone have idea how to set parent of an instantiated prefab in Photon?

[woeful raven]

why does it instantiate whenever a player joins i want it to instantiate one time only im using photon pun

this is the code:

 public GameObject gun;
    public float minX , maxX , minY , maxY , minZ , maxZ;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
         Vector3 randomPosition = new Vector3(Random.Range(minX, maxX), Random.Range(minY, maxY), Random.Range(minZ, maxZ));
         Debug.Log($"Spawning at: {randomPosition}", gameObject);
         Instantiate(gun, randomPosition , Quaternion.identity);
    }

[nova linden]

can i pass a TrailRenderer through a ulong ? same thing for a RaycastHit

[viscid moat]

Hi, I want to make sure my NetworkVariable will be updated immediately, in the docs https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/learn/rpcvnetvar/ at the bottom there is this pic showing that I can update NetworkVariable with ClientRpc, but I can't get it working.

[nova linden]

you can just do it like this

what exactly isnt working

[viscid moat]

I have that method

    void SyncVariableClientRpc(NetworkVariable<Output> currentServerState)
    {
        if (IsHost)
            return;
        this.currentServerState = currentServerState;
    }```
this is called on the server, I make sure my `Output` is network serializable 

[System.Serializable]
public struct Output : INetworkSerializable
{
public int tick;
public Vector3 pos;
public bool isMoving;

public void NetworkSerialize<T>(BufferSerializer<T> serializer) where T : IReaderWriter
{
    serializer.SerializeValue(ref tick);
    serializer.SerializeValue(ref pos);
    serializer.SerializeValue(ref isMoving);
}

}```
but in the console I get errors that unity dont know how to serialize NetworkVariable<Output>, so I've made that method

public static class SerializationExtensions
{
    public static void SerializeValue<TReaderWriter>(this BufferSerializer<TReaderWriter> serializer, ref NetworkVariable<Output> val) where TReaderWriter : IReaderWriter
    {
        var o = val.Value;
        serializer.SerializeValue(ref o);
        val.Value = o;
    }
}```
but it still not working

[viscid moat]

yes, but I want advantages from the both RPC and networkVariables

[viscid moat]

And on this pic they somehow are sending a and b as parametrers, and I assuming that a and b are netwrokVariables

[nova linden]

you could just pass in the tick, pos and isMoving variables speratley. If it is a network variable you dont need to sync them manually. a and b ar just defaul inputs like ints or floats like any other funktion

[viscid moat]

But network variable aren't synced immediately, but I need that feature, and also when new players will join I want that they will know last state of other players, so I need somehow combine functionality of NetworkVariable and ClientRpc.

[nova linden]

thats too complicated for me sorry

[viscid moat]

No problem, I am struggling with that for couple days 😁 and I'm starting to thinking that I will not be able to do this in that way

[sharp axle]

You don't normally use both RPCs and Network Variables at the same time

[gleaming zenith]

I have a throw command in my game that adds force to a RB but when my client uses the throw the rigidbody slides way further than when the server/host does anyone know why?

[regal delta]

type casting correct?

Does NetworkRigidbody work for you?

[shrewd junco]

You'll probably have to show code for an exact reason why. I'd assume it's the way your client is calculating the force, are you doing this by some rpc? You would want to have the server just calculate it based on the clients input

[gleaming zenith]

well Im trying to find the problem by doing everything client side at the moment and im still running into the issue let me look deeper into the code because i think your right its probably a Rpc somehwhere calculating things wrong

[shrewd junco]

You wouldnt want clients to add force in this way, especially not by rpc since they're more for events. You'll either want the client to have authority over its movement, or just have the server move everything purely based on client input

I tried something similar when learning, it doesnt go well because the clients dont see the correct values. For example if your client tried to add force to jump, it would likely try to apply it multiple times before the object even got off the ground server side

[gleaming zenith]

I just made it completely client authoratative and Im still running into the issue its weird its like the rigidbody linear drag isnt working correctly it could be the way im spawning in the object maybe the drag isnt updating

I made it completely client authoratative to check and its still happening

[sharp axle]

Is this like throwing a grenade?

[gleaming zenith]

yeah

[sharp axle]

It will need to have a client Network Transform and rigidbody as well as be owned by the client too

[gleaming zenith]

let me try that really quick

[gray warren]

Hey, I was wondering about Netcode and multiple games on a single server. Is NetworkVisibility the way to go? Hiding GameObjects from each player according to their "room ID" or something? What about scene management? If I Load a scene per room, I didn't see a way in the docs for hiding scene loading events from certain clients (i.e. all players on the server will know that some other room is loading a scene).

[drowsy pelican]

hello any idea why the chat doesn't show text in other client https://pastebin.com/sAGdZi35

I have this error : Only the owner can invoke a ServerRpc that requires ownership!
UnityEngine.Debug:LogError (object)
PlayerNetwork:functionServerRPC (char) (at Assets/PlayerNetwork.cs:0)
PlayerNetwork:<Start>b__5_0 () (at Assets/PlayerNetwork.cs:22)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem:Update () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@1.0.0/Runtime/EventSystem/EventSystem.cs:514)

[sharp axle]

It's possible but not really recommended. Usually it's one unity server instance per match. Your server hosting provider should handle running multiple instances per virtual machine

[sharp axle]

Sounds like PlayerNetwork is not owned by the clients. If it's a in scene object then it will be owned by the server. The server rpc would need to set to requireownership = false

[drowsy pelican]

Ah ! Yeah exactly. Thanks for that info will try it

[tulip ledge]

Hello,

I am interested in developing a multiplayer game and I am currently collecting information about potential technologies and capabilities that I could incorporate. I have been looking into Unity Services, and I'm particularly interested in using features like authentication.

The ideal setup for my game includes a backend server which allows API calls. These API calls should facilitate actions such as claiming daily rewards and retrieving user information from a database.

The game itself will feature 1vs1 turn-based battles. All of these battles need to be authenticated by the server, and the players' stats should be updated on the backend after each battle. After the update, players should be able to claim their rewards. This is a high-level overview of my project.

However, there are still some aspects I'm unsure about. For instance, I want to understand how I can allow a server to modify player stats on the database through Unity's netcode. I'm also not sure which Unity services would best suit my project's needs. My experience with this is limited, so I'm also looking for a matchmaking system that could match players based on specific stats.

Could someone please advise me on which technologies I should be looking into, so that I can start learning about them? I would prefer to use Unity-based solutions wherever possible.

[nova linden]

i have a question, i have guns with raycast hit detection and im using a Trail renderer that is instantiatet at the tip of the barrel and then moved to the raycastHit.point I want this line to show up for everyone but the problem is that only the host can spawn network objects and if i call a serverRPC that has a massiv delay and if you are a client and you shot you will see the line with a huge delay, how do other games do something like this

[weary tangle]

Assalam Alaikum.
In a drag race, a player's car reaches finish line. How can I then display a "You Won" and "You Lost" messages on the two different players using RPC calls in Photon?

[split hedge]

Hey how can I use NGO for taking damage as aplayer if it collides with something?

[shrewd junco]

Handle it on the server and have the health be a network variable

[shrewd junco]

Clients should be able to spawn things that arent network objects, you can have a local one for the client

[rose lake]

what are some good suggestions for netcode?

currently looking at Riptide

[drowsy pelican]

any idea why I have this in my chat system ?

i just wrote hello, and it showed hello =\n and blanck line

here the code https://pastebin.com/kGgwn0u3

[somber geode]

Maybe put \n in Single Quotes, specify encoding make the String a fixed length? Tried to find a Solution But idk where the = comes from.

Or try Environment.NewLine

[drowsy pelican]

@somber geode it is working well with only the host, but a client connect it doesn't. It seems

[drowsy pelican]

ok i finally found the solution, was missing if(IsOwner)

[nova linden]

Whats faster, a client that calls a server rpc that calls a client rpc that causes an event or a network variable that when changed causes an event ?

[split hedge]

Hey I have this, when I shoot on the client it will only shoot in one direction, not where the mouse is

[nocturne vapor]

since a client can only communicate with a server it should be about the same, if you go for the network variable just be sure to set the write permission to owner, if it is on the player otherwise you would have to server rpc->network variable -> variable on change

[nova linden]

thank you

how exactly do i despawn networkObjects for everyone, since only the server can destroy it and i cant pass an object refrence trough the server rpc

and sinmply calling the destroy funktion leaves the object floating in the air

[nocturne vapor]

Do it in a server rpc
You can create a script on that gameobject which has a destroyServerRpc function which you call. That way the object executes it and there is no need for passing an reference

[spring crane]

Generally if the networking framework doesn't automagically convert networkobjects to IDs, you can send the ID yourself and convert it on the other side

[nova linden]

I use unitys networking framework

[spring crane]

Yea either it works automagically or you do the sending and look up youself. Haven't used Unity's solution.

[nova linden]

But marsimplodations idea should work

[sharp axle]

You can also use these to send a reference in a RPC
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/advanced-topics/serialization/networkobject-serialization/#networkobjectreference

[nocturne vapor]

it works, it is just a matter of how you want to do it, for me it is always a certain kind of stuff, which has a script anyway (buildables, trees, ...) so it was the easiest solution

[rustic lagoon]

Hello guys, i try to setup a character controller with NetCode, i succesed by sending the Inputs to the Server, calculate position on the Server, and send it back to client, Works perfectly, Then I added a little bit of Delay,Jitter and Paket Lost and the experience was awfull and beside that, i was sending RPC at tick rate (the input, and i dont know if this is ok or not)
Is this how things sound work?
And i try to make the player move its avatar, but cant really succed here, its like "Any move i make has to be on server"

[median gale]

Took a little break from this problem and revisited today. I resolved it by calling SetCoin() instead of AddCoin(). This resolves my issue because SetCoin() instantly updates the coin amount.

[meager rain]

i don't know what to call this phenomenon, happens on instantiation of chess pieces... any name for this bug? i don't care about the position of chess pieces on player 2 but on player 1 the pieces are looping/lagging/whatever

[nova linden]

How can i get the client id of the client that runs a script?

in unity netcode

or better said, i have a server -> client rpc and i dont want whatever hapens in the client rpc to happen for the person that called the server rpc, how would i do that ?

[nocturne vapor]

Thats the wrong channel I think
#archived-works-in-progress might be better suited

[blissful vortex]

Uh sorry then

[weak plinth]

hi , i want to make my game to be able to hold up to 4 players in multiplayer, what are my best options, easier they are better they are. Latency and such stuff is not as important, its a co op. what is important that it is easy to set up, and that i can put it on steam after its all done, thanks

[burnt frigate]

hi, i have a basic game that works nicely in single player, but i want to make it multiplayer, and since i am a pretty poor person i can't afford servers and stuff like that, so i found a solution : host the game on the players device by using their IP , (like some old games used to do) however i have absolutly no idea how to do that in unity (i tried to look similar ideas online but i did not see anything that helped which is why i came here), i you could help me that would be greatly appreciated.

[sharp axle]

Using a client network transform would be the easiest way to get something up and running and feeling smooth

[sharp axle]

Unity Relay service would work well for this. It has a free tier that you can use. There are other options like Steam or Epics P2P services

[burnt frigate]

oki ty, i will look it up

[nova linden]

i have a question about that, do i need to change a lot of code if i switch to steam

[sharp axle]

Not really. Its just a matter to switching Transports. Might be a line or two to change where you get the IP address. I've not used Steamworks before

[nova linden]

okay

thanks

[weak plinth]

how is unity netcode for gameobjects, has anyone tried it and can confirm its easy to set up?

[shrewd junco]

It's good, but in terms of difficulty though that's entirely on you and what kind of game you're making. It's easy enough to just get players moving but theres often gonna be way more than just that

[weak plinth]

well im making coop zombie shooter, i first want to finish singleplayer aspect and then work on the multiplayer

so im wondering which one is best considering il have finished game that needs to be implemented to multiplayer

[shrewd junco]

You'll end up rewriting a lot if you code the single player first

The steps I usually do are code 1 feature to work in single player just to make sure it works, then make it work in multiplayer

[nocturne vapor]

You need to handle all the steam stuff, like invited and lobby hosting. So you need additional code, I'll search up a tutorial real quick

https://youtu.be/9CYsQ2Rsr2c

[weak plinth]

well i am aware but after the code is done i believe its gonna very easy rewriting it, no?

[shrewd junco]

That is a hard no

[weak plinth]

and also if i want single player game to work in offline for example, it wont be able to work without a host etc. that netcode needs

[shrewd junco]

I dont have much multiplayer experience, but generally if your plan is to rewrite something from the very beginning then you're doing something very wrong. It's possible, but a LOT will change

[shrewd junco]

You would just run the game as a host and not allow remote connections for single player

[weak plinth]

yea but that means its still online game just with 1 player

i dont understand honestly what in the code will change that drastically

arent things just gonna be added to it?

i got very little experience with multiplayer i hardly understand how to make it but i kinda understand how it works

[shrewd junco]

Well it wouldnt exactly be online if you dont allow people to join. When you test and develop, itll all just be local the same way you'd be playing single player.

[weak plinth]

but wouldn't the network manager threw an error if you are offline?

[nocturne vapor]

No it wouldn't you can host a game completly offline

[weak plinth]

ok thats cool

well im still in very early development of my game but i really want to make it endless co op zombie shooter with 2-4 players

preferably 2 tho

[shrewd junco]

No basically any action that everyone should see will have to change. It really depends on if you use server or client authoritative, but you're gonna be adding a lot of logic in your code to make sure the wrong person isnt trying to update a value

[weak plinth]

like left 4 dead or call of duty black ops zombie mod

but endless

[shrewd junco]

Shooting, moving, swapping levels, reloading, building, all of these features will require a rewrite

Just as quick examples

[weak plinth]

well yeah but isn't that just adding network transform and network animator components?

i mean i dont know honestly i know something but il have to do alot of reading before i start it myself

i now have pretty much my character set and 1 npc and now im thinking will i go the way to develop it single player first or start working on multiplayer aspect of it

by character i mean whole gunplay(recoil,animations,reload,ammo,weapon switch,etc)

i made map design and added 1 mob and working on another

[shrewd junco]

That's how you can sync components, but the same single player code wont just work. You'll be going back and adding a lot of network variables and stuff like if(isOwner). Its just way way easier to write by doing multiplayer the entire time

[weak plinth]

but IsOwner is still just adding to it

and variables is like 1 sec of rewrite

is it really that difficult?

[shrewd junco]

I provided like the simplest rewrite as an example, but remember this is gonna have to be in a lot of scripts. If it really doesnt deter you that you would have to go edit almost every script you've made then you can try. I just dont think a single person out there would recommend doing it this way

[weak plinth]

Ok il listen to you , im like very neutral to this because i know very little

its not a problem for me to dive into it i think im pretty ready

but, can u tell me is netcode for gameobjects going to be simple to combine with steam

and is there something i should look after when aiming for it to be steam game

?

[shrewd junco]

Like let's say you want to swap weapons, that's super easy locally, just activate/deactivate it. When it comes to networking, now you have to send some data to the server who sends this to all clients saying which one you equipped

[weak plinth]

yes that is true, but it will still only add to it i believe?

[shrewd junco]

It shouldnt matter which networking solution you use I think, using steam will be the same roughly with all networking solutions. I set it up with ngo

[weak plinth]

Ok well i better get into it then

thanks for your time

[shrewd junco]

Im unsure what you mean by only add. You would literally be rewriting the code

[nocturne vapor]

I can give you an example for a rewrite
My player inventory is local and thats the way I want it to be
To write to my database however the host needs access to all the data in it, so I needed to write a complete class which accesses the player inventory processes important identifiers (steamid, slotnr, itemname, item count) and sends them to the server. The host/erver will now have a copy of that inventory and can write it to the database
In order to retrive that same inventory I have to do everything in reverse, so it is not just adding network variables

[weak plinth]

what do you mean? I just need something that tells the server which gameobject is currently active for that person

and honestly i though network manager / network transform already had those included

[nocturne vapor]

And that is with allready making sure that the inventory only is written by the local player

[weak plinth]

i mean it sounds like its really just adding honestly, u had to ADD webrequest i assume to the ADDED hosting site ur on, from there you had to ADD script that reads out to the unity ur inventory, and if u set ur database right like inventory i dont see issue, u just take what u get back from that field into ur script that will then manage the rest

by probably ADDING something haha

But i do understand your points if u didnt prepare it well for those steps you probably had to rewrite some stuff

[nocturne vapor]

The problem is that you need to structure everything in a certain way and generally it is not recommended to add multiplayer to a game after you have written the core mechanics. You need to design these mechanics with multiplayer in mind

Thinking about where to execute what

[weak plinth]

yeah okay im all ears guys, but i do need advices thats why I am here

i really appreciate ur time but can u tell me where should i learn more about netcode for gameobjects

i saw a good tutorial by CodeMonkey on YT but i need to read more of it and understand it better

[nocturne vapor]

Codemonkey has a course on youtube and the rest is honestly reading the official docs and experimenting

Thats how I learned it

[weak plinth]

how long it took you?

honestly

to master it

i mean not to master it, but to be able to use it alone without googling much

or just using it

also im sorry for all questions, but how do you create rooms for your game?

with netcode

how does that work?

[nocturne vapor]

Oh and arguing with chatgpt. I find it very helpfull to share my thoughts with it.
Like describing a problem and than what you did to solve that problem if this is a good aproach
It is just to organize your mind and to get feedback

[nocturne vapor]

A month? Maybe two?

I still look up things in the docs

[oak rain]

qq: does unity have any built in utilities for transfrom prediction based on previous samples? i'm looking for somethiing better than dead reckoning that will factor in angular velocity.

[nocturne vapor]

I'm using steam lobbies and a custom written script to convert steam lobby ids to invite codes

[weak plinth]

can i see how that looks like?

[nocturne vapor]

I don't think so, ngo is very basic when it comes to stuff like that

[weak plinth]

i've never had nothing to do with steam im pretty much a begginer and this is what i want to be my first steam published game

[nocturne vapor]

It is on my github, linked in my profile. You won't learn much about networking tho, it is just a base10 to custom base62 coversion with some binary magic

[oak rain]

do you know of any third party assets or popular algorithms?

[nocturne vapor]

Sadly no

[weak plinth]

is it ok if i DM u if i get stuck somewhere?

[nocturne vapor]

It would be, but you will probably have more luck trying it here. I try to reguraly look into this chat and some others like evilotaku and bawsi do as well always ready to help

[weak plinth]

cool, thanks

[shrewd junco]

Just curious, is the invite code gonna be the same thing for someone everytime? I was thinking of adding something like this but not sure since I dont want people joining friend groups randomly

[shrewd junco]

If you join the netcode discord in the pins, itll probably be seen quicker/not buried away. This channel sometimes gets people asking for photon, mirror, etc

[weak plinth]

can you point it out?

[nocturne vapor]

No every lobby has a id attached to it, to identify it. Since steamids are also used for everything else alot of it is boiler plate, readable in the steamworks documentation and other places.
I have put in comments what stand for what.
A certain part of that id is truly unique, I take that part out of it, thanks to chatgpt and the good documentation I got the correct binary places, and convert these numbers into numbers and letters.
The important part is it is not hashing but base conversion so 1 to 1 and not with any conflicts. That way I can put it back into a steamid and join the lobby with that

So it has to do with the lobby not the owner and that id is not the same everytime

[shrewd junco]

The pins button, then scroll down, it's the unity multiplayer networking one

[weak plinth]

im sorry but i dont see that?

[shrewd junco]

Ah I see, I was thinking of having it based off steam ID then just apply some really simple encryption/decryption but I might just stick to only allowing friend invites through steam

[shrewd junco]

The pins button or the discord link?

[weak plinth]

the pins button

oh wait

what is that anyway

[shrewd junco]

Here is the message itself

[weak plinth]

nvm now i really wanna dive into the ngo

thanks yall

[nocturne vapor]

I do both, invite/join via steam ui and joining via code for less technical users or public lobbies

[shrewd junco]

Ah

[weak plinth]

hi guys, begginer question, I have NGO installed, and when i run the game from host it works good, then i join client in, my host has no control he doesnt move at all while client moves freely as supposed, that is happening after i set if(!IsOwner) in the movement update, as if client is owner of his movement script but the host is not owner of his movement script , anyone knows why this is happening? when i remove the if(!IsOwner they both move on both client window and the host window.

[drifting plaza]

I set up a tick system via code not knowing that Unity has a built in system for Netcode, is it okay to continue to use my own system or should I use the built in NetworkManager Tick system?

[sharp pawn]

Is the host still the owner after the client joins? You can also check what happens when the 2nd client joins, I guess it might be either some issue with how your player objects are spawned. But not 100% sure, it's hard to pinpoint just from that

You can also try asking on Unity NGO's discord, people there are super helpful

[weak plinth]

can you give me a link?

[sharp pawn]

it's here

[weak plinth]

host is host and client is client as far as i know, 2 buttons different functions for each, and now idk about how they are spawned im very new to this

i went back to 1.0.2 version and gonna try to follow the codemonkey video on yt to see if it fixes it then il go from there

[sharp pawn]

As said, you can try joining yet another player, maybe this will give some clue. Player movement in multiplayer can be tricky, and once you get to stuff like client prediction and player interpolation... Things get fun 😄

[weak plinth]

i do love challenges, it makes u learn, but i hate being stuck on one for too long hahah

[sharp pawn]

It took me quite some time to get my own movement script working in MP. And then a few months later I decided I want physics to work too, so I had to make movement server-side, and than once again was a lot of reworking. But that's a great attitude you have!

If you need some help, feel free to DM me. I can't answer 24/7, but maybe I can help with something, from what I've learned myself

[weak plinth]

sure , thanks 😄

[weak plinth]

btw why is physics hard to work? im gonna need ragdoll to work so im wondering

[sharp axle]

Unity Physics is nondeterministic. That mean two identical collisions on separate machines could have different outcomes.

[weak plinth]

oh and also, clientId:0 is a host right?

[sharp axle]

If you handle everything on the host then you have to deal with lag.

and yea. client 0 will always be the host

[weak plinth]

i am making co op game

well why is my client becoming id 0

[sharp axle]

if its not the host then its not id 0.

[weak plinth]

nope my bad hes not becoming id0 its just that the host is controling client and client is controling client i believe