Question Different Cameras for Host and Client(s)

I have recently started a project in which I do not want separate gameobjects for players, I would like separate cameras looking at different parts of the scene. More specifically, I want the host to be looking at an object already in the scene and any connected clients to be looking at a separate object in the scene. Any suggestions?

 

Simple: make the cameras networkobjects, and disable/enable the cameras on each client/host depending which one you want them to look through. You can do this for example in a NetworkBehaviour script on the camera objects with its OnNetworkSpawn method, see the docs.

 

I would use Cinemachine. At a minimum, you'd need a "look at target" virtual camera and simply, through RPC messages, tell clients (this includes the host) which object they should use as the camera's "look at target".

You need to find a way to specify those target objects though and how to do that depends entirely what type of game you are making, how many objects, whether they get spawned dynamically and so on.

 

Just to add to the discussion, I would probably not make your cameras network objects at all. Let each client control their own camera facing, position, etc. Depending on your exact needs this could be controlled through RPC calls to the clients as CodeSmile suggested, or if the individual clients can zoom, rotate, move their own cameras through user input then even the RPC calls probably are not needed. Just hook up each clients camera(s) to the local clients user input.