Cannot set player custom properties

Danjel

Hello, I am trying to save and read a single custom property in my PhotonPlayers, but apparently nothing has worked so far: every time I try to read that property, it returns null. After reading many threads in this forum this is what I got, and it still doesn't work:

This is my code for writing the custom property:
ExitGames.Client.Photon.Hashtable hashtable = new ExitGames.Client.Photon.Hashtable();
hashtable.Add("PlayerStatus", "LoadingLevel");
PhotonNetwork.player.SetCustomProperties(hashtable);

This is my code for reading it:
string status = player.CustomProperties["PlayerStatus"].ToString();

This same code works fine for Room custom properties, but not for PhotonPlayer custom properties. What's wrong here? It's like it never gets updated.
Thanks!

JohnTube

Hi @Danjel,

Thank you for choosing Photon!

You should be joined to a room in order to update player properties!
Otherwise local player properties could be cached and used when joining or creating a room.

We always recommend using short string keys and for the player status value I suggest you use an enum (byte or int) instead of string.

You should have something like this:

public const string PlayerStatusPropKey = "ps";

void SetStatus(object status)
{
    ExitGames.Client.Photon.Hashtable hashtable = new ExitGames.Client.Photon.Hashtable();
    hashtable.Add(PlayerStatusPropKey, status);
    PhotonNetwork.player.SetCustomProperties(hashtable);
}

void OnPhotonPlayerPropertiesChanged(object[] playerAndUpdatedProps) 
{
    PhotonPlayer player = playerAndUpdatedProps[0] as PhotonPlayer;
    Hashtable props = playerAndUpdatedProps[1] as Hashtable;
    //...
    var status = props[PlayerStatusPropKey];
}