Question How to obtain PlayerPrefabHash from prefabs

I am trying to spawn a specific prefab for a player and the documentation states the following:

PlayerPrefabHash: The type of player prefab to use for the authorized player (if this is null it uses the default NetworkManager defined player prefab)

But how I can obtain the hash from the prefab? I have tried the GetHashCode from the GameObject, the global object id Hash shown in the NetworkObject component but I am unable to get a hash code that is working.

I also tried the override option in the NetworkPrefabs and using an specific hash but not working either

How I can access it?

Using Version 1.1.0

 

Are you using this for ConnectionApproval? I can't see a way of getting the GlobalObjectId at runtime, you can copy it from the prefab in the Unity inspector and paste it into the code.

 

Yes, I am using this for ConnectionApproval, It surprises me that I can't get this at runtime. Hardcoding these things is not ideal since a designer just wants to drag and drop the prefabs ( instead of seeing the id). I have checked and it is an internal value so with a getter we should be fine

However, I have tried copying the GlobalObjectId in the Unity inspector ( from the network object component) and still It doesn't find it

 

Is the prefab in the network manager's prefab list? I've tried it with a few different prefabs and in connection approval they were all spawned as the player.

 

You don't need the prefab hash, you need a reference to the prefab!

If you want to provide on connection approval which prefab that client should be spawning as player object, make an indexed list of these prefabs (ie in a scriptable object or just any script on the NetworkManager object) and pass in the index of that prefab the client wants to use, so the server knows "that client wants to spawn prefab #3 in the list".

You can even use the NetworkManager's network prefabs list if you feel that suffices. Just be sure you keep them in the right order, ie player prefabs first and then all the others.

 

You can but you're moving away from it being a connection approval routine to just being a convenient way of passing data from client to server on connection. Not that I have any problems with that as I use it that way myself. What you are losing is the automatic spawning of the player prefab so that also has to be taken care of elsewhere.