[Help!] Multiplayer - Making Your Name Only Visible To Other Players

Hey guys -

Currently I have my multiplayer game running so that any player's name (a TextMesh) is right above his/her head, and is visible to all players, even to himself/herself.

However, it is annoying that the only person can see his own name above his head. Therefore, is there a way to use Layers to make sure that each person can see eveyone else's name, but can't see their own name?

I tried doing it, but it seemed very logically complicated...

If you have any suggestions or ideas, PLEASE post them down below. I would love any help! Thanks!

Exbow

 

If there's a way to tell if a gameobject is another player's or yours (Like Photon's PhotonView.isMine) then you can just make a script that disables the TextMesh gameobject if the player it's "following" isn't yours. It'd just be 2+ lines depending on your setup. I haven't played with unity's built-in networking so I don't know if it has something like this.

 

The question is which multiplayer you use rakNet (old) or unet (new).

In rakNet it is networkView.isMine.

In unet it is GetComponent<NetworkIdentity>().isLocalPlayer.

 

Omg I never thought of that before.. I have Photon so that will work perfectly.

Thank you so much ! <3

 

thanks

 

I use Photon, so Rioku's should work. Thanks for all the help Mabenan