NetworkVariable in nested classes

I had attempted to put my NetworkVariables inside of nested classes, like:

class Behavior : NetworkBehaviour {
public class PairOfVariables {
public NetworkVariableVector3 position = new .... ;
public NetworkVariableQuaternion rotation = new ... ;
}
public class FourPairsOfVariables {
public PairOfVariables pair1 = new ...;
...
public PairOfVariables pair4 = new ... ;
}
public FourPairsOfVariables variables= new ...;
};

However, the variables appeared not to be updated on other game instances. I.e. the Server would write the variables, but Clients would not see updates.


When I un-nested the Variables, and instead put them directly in the Behavior class, like:
class Behavior : NetworkBehavior {
public NetworkVariableVector3 variable_pair1_position = new ....;
public NetworVariableQuaternion variable_pair1_rotation = new ... ;
...
public NetworkVariableQuaternion variable_pair4_rotation = new ... ;
}

Clients then began receiving variable updates as expected.

Is this indended behavior? Is it a bug? Am I missing something else?

 

This is intended behaviour. We only support NetworkVariables which are direct member fields of the NetworkBehaviour.

 

Will this limitation be fixed at some point? I can already see it blocking some functionality.

 

I wouldn't call this a "limitation". If this limitation wasn't there you could do some very weird stuff. For instance two NetworkBehaviours could both share the same class instance in a member field, but they would still be treated as separate variables.

Do you have an example where this would be blocking functionality?

 

I just realized I entirely misread the issue.
I thought the issue was that you can't use network variables in classes that inherit from another network behavior (which I also hope isn't a limitation). Nevermind me!

 

so there wont be anyway to directly assign NetworkBehavior to the NetworkVar<T> ?