How to correctly spawn characters during multiplayer

Hey all, I'm trying to get spawning working right during multiplayer. I need to get away from the default spawning from NetworkManager, so I created a class:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using UnityEngine.Networking;
4.  
5. public class NetworkManagerExtended : NetworkManager
6. {
7.     public GameObject bulletPrefab;
8.  
9.     // Use this for initialization
10.     void Start()
11.     {
12.  
13.     }
14.  
15.     // Update is called once per frame
16.     void Update()
17.     {
18.  
19.     }
20.  
21.     public override void OnServerAddPlayer(NetworkConnection conn, short playerControllerId)
22.     {
23.         var player = (GameObject)GameObject.Instantiate(playerPrefab, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity);
24.         GameObject parent = GameObject.Find("Hull");
25.         player.transform.parent = parent.transform;
26.  
27.         NetworkServer.AddPlayerForConnection(conn, player, playerControllerId);
28.     }
29.  
30.     public override void OnServerReady(NetworkConnection conn)
31.     {
32.         base.OnServerReady(conn);
33.  
34.         ClientScene.RegisterPrefab(bulletPrefab);
35.     }
36. }

Network Manager object:


When I run the game through the editor and select Host in the NetworkManagerHUD, a player character is no longer spawned. Through breakpoints, I can tell that I need the Auto Create Player option checked to run the OnServerAddPlayer() method. How should I be doing this? I'd like to have full control over spawning players where and when I want.

 

To add a player, once you are connected call:

ClientScene.AddPlayer(0);

 

Does that mean, inside OnServerReady? (I'm having a hard time determining the structure required to set up custom UNet functionality in general. I read the manual, but it's quite sparse once you want to try expanding on the provided high-level features.)

 

No, you want to override OnClientConnect() which is called when the client makes a connection to the server.

The default implementation is right now:

Code (CSharp):

1. public virtual void OnClientConnect (NetworkConnection conn)
2. {
3.     if (string.IsNullOrEmpty (this.m_OnlineScene) || this.m_OnlineScene == this.m_OfflineScene)
4.     {
5.         ClientScene.Ready (conn);
6.         if (this.m_AutoCreatePlayer)
7.         {
8.             ClientScene.AddPlayer (0);
9.         }
10.     }
11. }

 

Ok thanks, I'll give that a try. Just for understanding what I'm doing...for a player-per-client AddPlayer(x) would always be 0, and split screen could be done adding players 0 and 1?

 

yeah, so far that's how I see it.

 

Ok, great. Btw, looks like they changed the default code so for anyone who comes later, look here for the latest: http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UNetManager.html.

So that just adds a new player entity. How do I spawn their controller so they have isLocalPlayer authority? Is that where NetworkServer.AddPlayerForConnection(conn, player, playerControllerId) comes in, and I'd use playerControllerId = 0?

Edit: Looking through the docs, maybe OnServerAddPlayer is called when I use ClientScene.AddPlayer()? If so can I leave my OnServerAddPlayer() as is, or do I need to use AddPlayerForConnection() inside the OnClientConnect()?

Right now I'm running into a spawn error. The host/server start fine, and I can control my player. On the client start, launched through the NetworkManagerHUD on a built instance, I get an error of "Spawn scene object not found for 4".

 

Bump. Still can't figure this out :/

 

Try posting your codes you have right now.

 

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. void SpawnPlayer()
3. {
4.      if(!NetworkManager.singleton.client.ready)
5.      {
6.           NetworkManager.singleton.client.Ready();
7.      }
8.      ClientScene.AddPlayer(0);
9. }
10.  

Disable auto spawn player in the network manager.
Then call SpawnPlayer(); once youre connected to the server.