NETCODE: How to convert ghost entity index / version from client to server

In the project I'm working on, I have a "agent" (player) entity ghost, and a set of "ability" entity ghosts, each of which has a "OwningPlayer" component that points to the owning player. When a player uses an ability, I want to send a message to the server that a specific ability needs to be used. My initial attempt at doing this was to add an "Entity" field to my ICommandData, and serialize the ability entity by its index and version. However, when I reconstruct the entity from the index and version in the server world, this doesn't work, because the index and version are different. Is there any way to convert an "Entity" reference of a ghost in the client world to the corresponding entity ghost in the server world? Or perhaps I'm going about this wrong and there is some other method I'm supposed to use?

 

Ok it seems like the solution may be to change the CommandTargetComponent on the client side to the ability entity before sending the relevant commands, so the ability entity gets the commands directly (and then I don't have to worry about referencing the ability entity in the command). I will try this tomorrow.

 

I use indices, so I refer by index in dynamic buffer of root ghost

 

In general you can use ghostId of https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/c....NetCode.GhostComponent.html?q=ghostcomponent to match client and server ghosts

 

Thanks for the replies!

This is helpful however I'm still having some trouble. Where is the buffer of ghosts? My guess would be the "GhostCollection" entities, but I'm looking in the entity analysis window, and they only have a "GhostPrefabBuffer" that stores links to the prefab entities. I don't see anything with links to the actual instantiated entities.

So, you have any ghosts that need to refer to eachother both be children of some parent ghost?

 

Well, they aren't really children. They are referred via DynamicBuffer

 

You might register ghostId in a collection on the ghost's spawn

 

Thanks, that's what I ended up doing!