Unity wins the Award for "Stating the Obvious !"

I am slowly moving from total noob to semi-noob.

I am working on instantiating, network ids, and RPCs right now. This is what the Script Reference has to say:

That's it!? No further reading? No other examples? Not even a hint as to the gotchas.

So now I head blindly in and will add multiple network views - as required by anything more than a damn cube.

If anyone can either warn me or point me to appropriate reference on any gotchas or tips for this - please lemme know.

Thanks in advance.
Will

 

When using network.instantiate this is all done automatically for you. If you instantiate it via "Instantiate" you'll need to manually assign all networkviewID's.

For example;
Have the server create two viewID's:

Code (csharp):

1.     var transformViewID : NetworkViewID = Network.AllocateViewID();
2.     var animationViewID : NetworkViewID = Network.AllocateViewID();

RPC them to the other clients.
Have the clients instantiate the object, and simply assign the viewID's like this:

Code (csharp):

1. var instantiatedPlayer : Transform = Instantiate(playerPrefab, transform.position, transform.rotation);
2.     var networkViews = instantiatedPlayer.GetComponents(NetworkView);
3.    
4.     // Assign view IDs to player object
5.     if (networkViews.Length != 2) {
6.         Debug.Log("Error while spawning player, prefab should have 2 network views, has "+networkViews.Length);
7.         return;
8.     } else {
9.         networkViews[0].viewID = transformViewID;
10.         networkViews[1].viewID = animationViewID;
11.     }
12.  

Also see "AuthServerSpawnPlayer.js" in the networking examples for an example with Instantiate and two netview's.

 

Awesome help!!

Thanks much!

-Will