Problem integrating a lobby into a network game

I have some issues to get a NetworkLobby attached to a working network game.

I need this Lobby to let a joined player chose a "team" and by that which player prefab to get spawned.

The Situation/ Idea:

There are two main scripts that are running. A NetworkLobbyManager_custom that extends the NetworkLobbyManager and a LobbyPlayer_custom that extends the LobbyPlayer. Both are the standard assets for a Lobby. The NetworkLobbyManager is atached to a GameObject and the LobbyPlayer_custom is attached to a prefab that I use as lobby prefab.

The NetworkLobbyManger_Custom manages the Canvases and Buttons within my menu and lobby scenes. It also etablishes a connection between server an clients.

The LobbyPlayer_custom is there to save the team the player chose and to change to the game scene on the client.

The App works like this:
1. the NetworklobbyManager_custom lets you start a host/ join as client.
2. after you estalished a connection a canvas with two buttons to choose the team pops up
3. when a button is clicked the team is checked for free slots and the chosen team should be saved in the LobbyPlayer_custom script

This is where I have a problem. I can't get acces to the LobbyPlayerPrefabs that contain the scripts or the scripts to save the choice.

When I try to get access to the LobbyPlayer_custom script to find the id of the LobbyPlayer_custom that made the choice, I get a NullPointerException.

Code (CSharp):

1. private string GetLobbyPlayersIdByIp (string ip)
2.     {
3.       LobbyPlayer_custom lobbyPlayer;
4.         for(int i=0; i< maxPlayers; i++)
5.         {
6.             if ((lobbySlots[i] != null))
7.             {   // nullpointer here
8.                 lobbyPlayer = lobbySlots[i] as LobbyPlayer_custom;
9.                 if (lobbyPlayer.GetPlayerIP().Equals(ip))
10.                 {
11.                     return lobbyPlayer.GetPlayerUID();
12.                 }
13.             }
14.         }
15.         return "null";
16.     }

I also tried to get access to the LobbyPlayer_custom script through finding all LobbyPlayerPrefab instances by something like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. LobbyPlayer_custom lobbyPlayer;
2.         Object[] objs = Resources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll(typeof(GameObject));
3.  
4.         foreach (Object obj in objs)
5.         {
6.             if (obj.name.Contains("player") || obj.name.Contains("Player"))
7.             {
8.                 lobbyPlayer = (obj as GameObject).GetComponent<LobbyPlayer_custom>();
9.                 //none of the lobbyPlayers methods are accessible
10.             }          
11.         }

Does anyone have any idea how access all the LobbyPlayer scripts of the spawned Prefabs?

Thanks a lot.

 

I kind of have the same problem. Does anyone have a clue? Or is there maybe somewhere a working example of a multiplayer lobby for different kinds of player prefabs to get spawned?

 

https://github.com/santiihoyos/Netw...sts_Unity3D/Assets/Scripts/Lobby/LobbyHook.cs

LobbyHook is the solution to set player properties using lobbyPlayer data.

Code (csharp):

1. public virtual void OnLobbyServerSceneLoadedForPlayer(NetworkManager manager, GameObject lobbyPlayer, GameObject gamePlayer) {
2.     gamePlayer.name = lobbyPlayer.nickname;
3.     gamePlayer.setTeam(lobbyPlayer.team_id);
4.     gamePlayer.setCharacter(lobbyPlayer.character_id);
5.     //etc...
6.  }