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vivid vortex Feb 3, 2026, 4:13 AM

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Does unity Netcode CustomNamesMessages only send data to those who registered to it? Like the server going to send data to all clients, but it will check if that client is registered internally or not? Or will send anyways and the client who is not registered to it will drop it?

I want to know if I can save bandwidth by not registering in clients who don't need it.

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Unity Netcode CustomNamedMessages

glossy phoenix Feb 3, 2026, 8:48 AM

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SendNamedMessage() can take a list of clients to send to. SendNamedMessageToAll() will broadcast out to all clients.

Clients registering won't matter in either case

vivid vortex Feb 5, 2026, 11:20 AM

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It would have cool if they do it internally with Register and Unregister.

It is extra work to send id of client so server will not group it with other clients

glossy phoenix Feb 5, 2026, 11:28 AM

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How would you send to the server which clients are registered?

But you can definitely make a GitHub issue for this. It could an easy implementation.

vivid vortex Feb 5, 2026, 3:38 PM

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glossy phoenix How would you send to the server which clients are registered? But you can defi...

Like we have to register every client to named message. It should send this to server that they have registered. So server only sends data to those who is registered even if we pass all client ids there

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