Behaviour of OnSerializeNetworkView

Hello!

I have mentioned before, that we use our own UDP layer. However to avoid having to mess with NAT Punchthrough, we are trying to convert to Unities Networking to keep our bases covered.

I've run into a little problem. In our game, there are a lot of shots being fired. Thus it is not necessary for every shot to reach every player. Ergo we use Unreliable State Synchronization.

These shots are stored in Wrappers called "ShotData". When fired, they are put in an ArrayList. These ShotDatas are then serialized in OnSerializeNetworkView. Afterwards the list is cleared. Now it came to my attention, that the shots of any player only ever reach one other player.

There are no error messages. All NetworkViews are set up correctly.

Code (csharp):

1. //// Serialize Shots
2. amount = outShots.Count;
3. stream.Serialize( ref amount );
4.  
5. for( int i = 0; i < amount; i ++ )
6. {
7.     currentShot = (ShotData) outShots[i];
8.     currentShot.Serialize( ref stream );
9. }
10.  
11. outShots.Clear();
12. //

Is OnSerializeNetworkView called for every connected player? Ìf yes, how do I find out to which player I'm sending at the moment?

 

I wonder if my problem hasn't become clear through my description. Please ask if you don't understand something.

As of now I simply use RPC Calls for sending shots over the network. It just seems unnecessary to use reliable transfer for something that doesn't need to be.

 

We are having the same problem. Everything goes across the network except the bullets. We can see the bullets server to client, but not client to client

They only thing we can think of is that we are setting the fire variable from outside the script with the OnSerializeNetworkView!!! or that since fire is not a game object then it does not work!!!

We will try RPC calls or making fire a game object.

W