Photon multiplayer animations sync question

Hi,


I've setup Photon in my project and I can have two players run around my scene but when the animation for one is activated it also shows on the other player.

Here's the animation code:

Code (CSharp):

1.  public void OnPhotonSerializeView(PhotonStream stream, PhotonMessageInfo info)
2.    
3.  
4.   if (stream.isWriting)
5.         {
6.             //This is our player, we need to send our actual position to network
7.             stream.SendNext(transform.position);
8.             stream.SendNext(transform.rotation);
9.  
10.  
11.             //Here we stream our animations to the network
12.             stream.SendNext(anim.GetBool("shootidle"));
13.             stream.SendNext(anim.GetBool("shootforward"));
14.             stream.SendNext(anim.GetBool("idle"));
15.             stream.SendNext(anim.GetBool("forward"));
16.             stream.SendNext(anim.GetBool("fwdLeft"));
17.             stream.SendNext(anim.GetBool("fwdRight"));
18.             stream.SendNext(anim.GetBool("left"));
19.             stream.SendNext(anim.GetBool("right"));//FWDAnimation is just an example, use your named animations
20.        
21.         }
22.         else
23.         {
24.            
25.             realPosition = (Vector3)stream.ReceiveNext();
26.             realRotation = (Quaternion)stream.ReceiveNext();
27.  
28.  
29.             //Here we make sure other players receive the sent animations of my player, through the network.
30.             anim.SetBool("shootidle", (bool)stream.ReceiveNext());
31.             anim.SetBool("shootforward", (bool)stream.ReceiveNext());
32.             anim.SetBool("idle", (bool)stream.ReceiveNext());
33.             anim.SetBool("forward", (bool)stream.ReceiveNext());
34.             anim.SetBool("fwdLeft", (bool)stream.ReceiveNext());
35.             anim.SetBool("fwdRight", (bool)stream.ReceiveNext());
36.             anim.SetBool("left", (bool)stream.ReceiveNext());
37.             anim.SetBool("right", (bool)stream.ReceiveNext());
38.         }

Right now it's the same player that spawns, but in different instances and the controls are individual (not affecting both players)

How come the animations show on both players when I move one, and how do I fix it?

 

Is there any particular reason why you are re-coding all the serialization yourself rather than using the Photon supplied solutions?

 

I've been following a tutorial to try and get a better understanding of how it all works, but the tutorial is rather old by now and it down't include the animations I put in the code above. I'm new to Photon, but is there a serialization script where I could add animations f.ex or what supplied solutions are you referring to?

 

This tutorial series is quite good. However, it appears that they may be using the same serialisation method you are.

So try this tutorial (around 3 minutes in) as well where he shows using the Photon animator and transform observers which are simpler to use if you are not doing anything unique or special.

 

Thanks for the tutorial. I found out why my instance plays the same animations as the master and it's because I left the animator component on instead of turning it off on the prefab, since I activate it through script so that it becomes independent for each instanced player very quick fix wuhuw

 

Nice. Glad you got it working.