Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Using a NetworkShow and CheckObjectVisibility is known to be impossible, and there were already some discussions about it in the past (see #2546 and #2609 )
A resolution of the above issues was an introduction of SpawnWithObservers
property on NetworkObject. That indeed solved situations where it was necessary to spawn object with no observers. However, in my case, I want to spawn a player object with owner-only visibility, and later add additional objects. However if I do it with:
go.GetComponent<NetworkObject>().CheckObjectVisibility = ((cId) =>
{
return cId == go.GetComponent<NetworkObject>().OwnerClientId;
});
It results in fully blocking me from any further network visibility management with NetworkShow / NetworkHide.
Interesting that the documentation tells that the above approach is actually valid:
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/basics/object-visibility/
It's said that CheckObjectVisibility is checked only at object spawn, and it's advised to use NetworkShow/NetworkHide after that. However currently it's not how it works, and it's necessary to both update the delegate method and do NetworkShow every time I need to show some object to some client. I feel there is a redundancy in updating a delegate in addition to NetworkShow.
Describe the solution you'd like
- Currently, in my local branch of NGO I just commented out a visibility check in
NetworkShow
that prevents the method from doing what is supposed to do. This is the fastest solution. - More beautiful solution would be to have a new argument to spawn a function to setup initial observes of the object:
SpawnAsPlayerObject(clientId, observers: new List<ulong>{.....});
Spawn(observers: new List<ulong>{.....});
- Or as it was proposed previously in NetworkShow and the CheckObjectVisibility Delegate #2546 some sort of new delegate such as
CheckObjectInitialVisibility
would also fix the issue