Switching weapons in PhotonNetwork

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Can someone please help me? I have simple script which is disabled and when I spawn player, it will be enabled. But still, when I switch weapon, other players still see the old one. Can someone please help me?

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 public class TPKnifePistol : MonoBehaviour {
     public GameObject gun;
     public GameObject knife;
     public GameObject pistol;
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start () {
         gun.SetActive (true);
         knife.SetActive (false);
         pistol.SetActive (false);
     }
     
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update () {
         if (Input.GetKey ("2")) {
             gun.SetActive (false);
             knife.SetActive (false);
             pistol.SetActive (true);
         }
         if (Input.GetKey ("3")) {
             gun.SetActive (false);
             knife.SetActive (true);
             pistol.SetActive (false);
         }
     }
     public void LoadByIndex()
     {
         gun.SetActive (true);
         knife.SetActive (false);
         pistol.SetActive (false);
     
     }
 }

Answer 1

Hi,

you have to synchronize the selected weapon. you can do this for example by using a RPC call. Firstly you will need a reference to the attached PhotonView component of the game object. Therefore add private PhotonView pView; to the class. Then in your Start (or Awake) function get the reference to the component by using pView = GetComponent<PhotonView>();. Having this reference is important for the Update function as well. Here you have to add the if (!pView.isMine) { return; } condition at the beginning. This helps avoiding handling the Input on objects that are not owned by the local client (otherwise a client will switch the weapon for each other client as well). Whenever a client has selected a new weapon, he can send the 'index' by using a RPC, for example pView.RPC("SwitchWeapon", PhotonTargets.All, 2);. This tells every client to call the function "SwitchWeapon" with index 2 on the certain game object. To handle this RPC call you will need a [PunRPC] marked function named "SwitchWeapon" which accepts one int (or byte) value as parameter, for example:

 [PunRPC]
 private void SwitchWeapon(int weaponIndex) { }

Based on the weapon index the client received you can enable or disable certain weapons.

If you want to read more about RPCs you can do this here.

Switching weapons in PhotonNetwork

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