Network Animation Lag

I use Network Animator component and it works fine, because its is transmiting the animations across the network but the animations are just lagging.

 

They will also be a few milliseconds or seconds behind, depending on the ping. If you want the animations to react faster, you should use the default animator and make them all client sided. For example, feed the client's movement speed to the client's animator directly and don't use the server's synchronized movement speed.

 

So do the ugly, tedious work-around of an animation state machine and send states to all the clients instead of letting Mecanim automatically sync anims? Or is there a better way?

 

Nah I meant do animations like you would do them in single player games. That's what I do in my networking projects, I don't use the NetworkAnimator at all.

For another example, think about foot step sounds. You could either let the server send a 'do sound now' packet on every foot step (hence latency) or just let the client take care of it whenever the client's feet touch the ground. It's no different for animations.

 

I’m having the same problem as well. I had my animation working smoothly then I tried to tweak it for multiplayer by using networkanimator. Although the animations play, they stutter or lag. How do you tell the client to do the animation? Can u give a coded example of what you mean because I think that’s the key to solvin my problem

 

In uMMORPG I use a state SyncVar. State is synced to client. Client sends state to animator, done.