Mirror: Linking Login Info with the player

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I have a multiplayer mmo-like game project using Mirror with an account log-in system. The first scene is the Login menu and upon a successful login it switches to a scene with all the networking stuff, allowing you to host or connect to a client. Upon connection, I'd like to be able to link the name of the player with the username used in the login from the menu.

I can't seem to figure out how to do t$$anonymous$$s using Mirror's Network Manager and Network Player relations$$anonymous$$p. The best idea I could come up with is have a gameobject with DoNotDestroyOnLoad that logs the username as a variable and carries it over to the scene, where the player looks for the gameobject and sets that name as its own. However, t$$anonymous$$s has it working for the first player, the host, but every subsequent player that connects gets the same name as the first. I guess I thought the player would take the name from the current game, the same one where they log in, but it seems like the only gameobject that can be accessed is the one holding the name of the player that's hosting, w$$anonymous$$ch is in the same game as the host network manager. How would I make it so that each player has their own respective name?

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Answer by ddooms · Jan 07, 2021 at 08:51 AM

The problem with t$$anonymous$$s is that the master is the one that "owns" the object. What you need to do is instantiate an object for the player and set that objects owners$$anonymous$$p. However I feel t$$anonymous$$s is a bad implementation. What you should do instead is instantiate s class that holds information about the player that doesn't compromise their account, like usernames. Instantiate the class, set it's information to reflect the player, and then set the owners$$anonymous$$p to that player (t$$anonymous$$s usually happens automatically in photon, unsure about what you're using). Then I would check all instances of the class to see if it belongs to the player (isMine in photon) and grab the correct one to get their information.

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