Merry Fragmas 3.0 Q&A

Hey guys! Hoping anyone could help me. I've got everything set up correctly I believe but I cannot drag and drop ANY particle effects onto my Shot Effects script? FirePosition works fine for the transform but the " Shot Effects " field says None (Shot Effects Manager) and I cannot drag and drop anything on to it... Any ideas?

 

Out if curiosity, can the scripts be used commercially in Merry Fragmas 3.0?

 

Hi.
In part two at 5:36, you drag a prefab "PlayerCanvas". I couldnt find it in any assets here.
(https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/...ition_2016-12-Global-Evangelists-VisionSummit)

 

Just finished up the last video and had a few issues which I was able to resolve thanks to previous posts on this thread. There is one issue that still persists however. While playing as a client, I can kill the server player and the death animation plays as it should. When I kill a client as the server player, the gun disappears but the death animation does not play. Instead the client player just stands there, not moving at all, until it is respawned.

Note: I am using two animation layers with an avatar mask to make the upper body always aiming the pistol since I didn't buy the soldier asset used in the video and don't have access to those animations. However, I don't think that's the problem as it works fine when the server player dies. Both layers use the same death animation, the only thing that's different is I have a "pistol ready" animation that overrides the locomotion blend tree (for the upper body only) in the base layer. Both layers are set to go from any state to the death animation when the "Died" trigger is activated.

Edit: Just checked the client player's animator controller in the editor and "Died" is not getting triggered. It does for the server player though. Weird...

Edit2: Just noticed I'm also having the issue where the client health text starts at 0 in the beginning of the match then goes to 2 once shot. The client also respawns in the same place every time but the server player doesn't.

 

I'm uploading it to dropbox right now. I'll e-mail you the link when it's done.

 

For anyone watching this thread, waiting for a fix- please note that Mike is busy with Unite Europe right now and won't be able to take a look at my package (hee-hee) until he gets back and has some free time. Either he or I will post the fix(es) here when that time comes.

 

Wow. I would like to say I can't believe it was something so simple, but that's usually what it tends to be. Thanks, Mike!

 

So after making the change I had both players disappearing on death so I made the following changes to Player.cs and now it works like a charm:

Code (CSharp):

1.     void DisablePlayer ()
2.     {
3.         onToggleShared.Invoke(false);
4.  
5.         if (isLocalPlayer)
6.         {
7.             PlayerCanvas.canvas.HideReticule();
8.             mainCamera.SetActive(true);
9.             onToggleLocal.Invoke(true);
10.         }
11.         else
12.         {
13.             Invoke("DisablePlayerGFX", respawnTime - 1f);
14.         }
15.     }
16.  
17.     void DisablePlayerGFX()
18.     {
19.         onToggleRemote.Invoke(false);
20.     }

 

Ok, don't do this. I don't know what was causing the players to instantly disappear before, but the "solution" I posted here doesn't work because they players stay invisible after respawning. I switched the code back to the way it was before and now they fall down and die as they should and don't simply insta-disappear as they did before.

 

@Mike-Geig or any one with a workable solution based on MF 3.0 video series MG did. With the new Unity Networking approach taken, how do you solve for the weapon clipping int the walls? I tried adding a new camera w/:
- Added camera called "GunCam"
- Render Depth Only
- Depth at 0 (Main Camera at -1)
- Added a layer (weapon camera)
- changed GunCam to only layer weapon camera
- changed main camera to not see weapon camera layer

Works as in intended. Gun no longer clips into walls, but I can see all the other networked players guns through walls. Because it is rendering over the main camera. How do I fix this?

Thanks in advance.

 

Hey @Mike-Geig

You lightly touched on networked Ragdolls. How would you do networked ragdolls in Merry Fragmas 3.0? Also I'm using the the onToggleShared,Local, and Remote. How can these events work if their is more scripts to make up parts of a controller (character controller, FPS controller, etc)?

Thanks!!
NuclearRasberry

 

@Mike-Geig Please help me!

I recently noted that this new feature in Unity 5.6 has added in this new error where if your player is a prefab, it cannot spawn in a build. I don't know quite how to fix this, and I have tried some of the rudimentary workarounds that have been provided by other users on the forums. None of them seem to work for me.

Some values that might help:
Scene_id: 1 (when hosting on the unity testing area)
(I don't really know what to put here. Nothing works on the build xD)

I have an issue, I keep on getting this error when attempting to run the game. This is after 36:51 in the video when he is run-testing it.

Error:
GameObject Player is a prefab, it can't be spawned. This will cause errors in builds.
UnityEngine.Networking.NetworkManagerHUD:OnGUI()

 

can that Unity event thing you did in Player.cs carry on to other things (Third person, RTS, etc)? @Mike-Geig

Thanks,
NuclearRasberry

 

The issue involving
Spawn scene object not found for 1
UnityEngine.Networking.NetworkIdentity:UNetStaticUpdate()
(i.e. client not spawning) is not being resolved by removing network identity and re-adding it. Any other suggestions? @Mike-Geig @ronaldomoon

 

I've solved the problem (at least for the time being) for Spawn Scene object not found for 1. When adding the player prefab to the network manager, before adding it, remove the player from the scene. This seems to work every time now

 

Hey Mike, I know you might have a 4.0 coming out soon, but I think this may still affect the next one. So I've made a multiplayer game and everything works fine. Ive tested it out with a couple of my friends, and they could also join. One problem I have though is that some of my friends can't see or join my games. They seem to be able to make their own games and join them, but my initial testing friends and I cant join him. This makes it seem like he is the problem, but I still dont know why he can make his own server and play by himself. He has tried turning off his anti-virus and firewall, but this doesnt seem to affect anything. Is there a way that I can detect what his problem is? Is there a way I can maybe print the port hes connecting to or something? Im not too good with Networking and what port makes stuff work or whatever, but I though this may be the last place I may find help. I also stumbled upon this: https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-can-connect-only-on-localhost-no-external-ip.166996/ which wasnt extremely encouraging. I really want all of my friends to be able to connect to me, or me to any of them, as if I were to release my game others would have similar problems. I followed your 3.0 tutorial step by step, and I would really hate to now have to redo everything and try photon. Again, I dont know much about the networking but is there a way I can just implement the photon server side stuff really easily to potentially fix this? Remember, I havent tried everything yet, but I do want to try anything to fix this. All I have done so far is build the game, give it to my friend, make a server and get him to try join. I also tried to get him to direct connect to my IP. I really just want a solution, any solution or all solutions. Any ideas?

 

Also the "Use WebSockets" was disabled when testing, not sure if that would matter or not...

 

Whoops, almost forgot @Mike-Geig

 

@Mike-Geig

I am experiencing the same issue, and are also looking for a solution. This problem is extremely frustrating, please respond as soon as you get the chance. Thanks.

 

Dude did you find out how to solve this?
In my case, when a player dies, Onenable works but doesnt set health value to maxhealth value.. If you have a solution let me know please.
nevermind i found it.
Use a command to reset health.

 

can i have the project link? especially in the prefabs folder

 

I followed this tutorial and when I am using Matchmaker it causes me some delay. Especially when I try to fire it first goes to the server using [Command] and then comes back through [RPC] and this causes a very noticeable delay on the clients. Is there any way to fix or optimize this?