Multiplayer game with different kinds of players/enemies

Hi All!

I'm new to multiplayer games and learning it with this set of articles - https://unity3d.com/ru/learn/tutorials/s/multiplayer-networking

In the step 3 we create a player prefab. If I understand it correctly, it means that all connected players will be of the same type, say, two tanks (player and enemy), two cars (player and enemy) etc.

But what if I want to have totally different players? Say, cat and dog, hunter and duck etc. That is, player and enemy with TOTALLY different properties and behaviour. One player plays as a hunter, another player plays as a duck. Maybe it will be covered in those articles later, but I'm not sure, so I decided to ask it in advance.

Thanks!

 

No advice? I beleive it should be possible to implement. Like other games, where you can play as a sniper or as a doctor...

 

Some possibilities...

• You can add multiple prefabs, each representing a different class type and spawn those as needed.
• Or you can use one prefab which uses a syncvar to ascertain which class it is at any particular time. Changing it would result in the required alteration to the model etc...