How to setup different player prefabs

I read manual on UNET but still can't understand how to do this:
e.g. I have "Player mode" and "Spectator mode" in game and client should be able to tell server in which mode is he connecting.
And so I want to spawn different prefabs for different types of players.
Also on top of this I want to spawn spectator prefab only on server and on client which is connecting as spectator, without spawning and syncing spectator prefab on all other clients.
I also want to have different set of Command/ClientRPC for spectator and actual player.

Another question how to implement something like chat system in new system. E.g. 2 players are on scenes ClientScene1, ClientScene2, server is on scene ServerScene and they all need to have an object with Chat component which have Command/ClientRPC methods and do chatting.

How can I do all of this with new UNET system?

 

Assuming you're using the NetworkManager, which has space for one player prefab, the solution is to make your game data-driven. A spectator player object is just a player object with the "IsSpectator" behaviour enabled and the "IsPlaying" behaviour disabled; and vice-versa for a player who's playing the game.

The final solution can be more complex (and probably will be), but that should get you started.

 

That is what I thought also.
Thing is I will have like 7-8 different applications (including different scenes) all of which have their own set of Scripts/Prefabs/Sprites/Materials etc. and having an object with NetworkIdentity on each scene which has components for each of 7-8 applications will mean everything from every app will be included as dependency into every build.
Only maybe if I do heavy eventing on everything and therefore decouple those network syncing components from all the objects on scene.

 

If you need more advanced functionality you can override the spawn methods. You can write your own logic to select Prefabs. There is some good info on how to do that in the documentation.

 

Hi !

there is probably a step missing. It seems we need to know if the connected player is "Spectator" or "Player".
I don't see any login data we can send to the server right ?
So, I guess the step is:
OnServerAddPlayer() => server ask player mode (ClientRpc) => client answer (Command) =>server spawn the right prefab.

 

I assume the spectator can move a camera.
You are right, a custom message will work

 

I am working on a project with multiple PlayerPrefabs. I created my own NetworkManager and override OnServerAddPlayer, but it never gets called. I added a debug line as the first one and it does not show up in the log.
I set the log level to Developer and then I see the following lines in the log:

Server accepted client:1
UnityEngine.Networking.NetworkIdentity:UNetStaticUpdate()
NetworkManager:OnServerConnectInternal
UnityEngine.Networking.NetworkIdentity:UNetStaticUpdate()
Server event: host=1 event=DataEvent error=0
UnityEngine.Networking.NetworkIdentity:UNetStaticUpdate()
NetworkManager:OnServerReadyMessageInternal
UnityEngine.Networking.NetworkIdentity:UNetStaticUpdate()
Ready with no player object
UnityEngine.Networking.NetworkIdentity:UNetStaticUpdate()

I left the PlayerPrefab empty, added my PlayerPrefabs to the list of registered prefabs in the NetworkManager editor, unchecked Auto Create player and set the Player Spawn Method to Round Robin (although each scene has only one NetworkStartingPoint).

What's going wrong? Do I need to override other methods?

 

Same here, I'm trying to spawn Player Customize Character Models.
So after customizing and saving a character I'm Recreating the Character, as a gameobject from the saved character data, in my own NetworkManager which inherits from unity's NetworkManager like the docs say, but the OnServerAddPlayer() method doesn't seem to get called?

 

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Hello, If you don't register your prefab as a player, I imagine the NetworkManager's OnServerAddPlayer won't be called automatically, so I assume you'd have to call something like this when you want to add your player to the scene.