How do I sync character colors?

wangf18
2021-05-30 01:06:52

I'm trying to have a system where a player joins a room, picks a color, and their character is instantiated as that color.
//

public void OnPlayerButtonClicked()  
    {  
        string oldCharacterName = (string)PhotonNetwork.LocalPlayer.CustomProperties["character"];

        if (oldCharacterName != null)  
        {  
            GetComponent<PhotonView>().RPC("ActivateButton", RpcTarget.AllBuffered, oldCharacterName);  
        }  
        else  
        {  
            MakeNicknameUnique();  
            spawner.InstantiatePlayer();  
            playerModel = spawner.GetPlayer();  
            playerModel.GetComponent<PlayerControl>().SetID(PhotonNetwork.LocalPlayer.ActorNumber);  
        }

        string newCharacterName = EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject.name;  
        GetComponent<PhotonView>().RPC("DisableButton", RpcTarget.AllBuffered, newCharacterName);

        SetCustomCharacter(newCharacterName);

        transform.gameObject.SetActive(false);

        GetComponent<PhotonView>().RPC("SetColor", RpcTarget.AllBuffered);  
    } 

I set the color as a Player Custom Property in SetCustomCharacter(), and then I'm trying to get a way to link the player prefab to the Photon player. Right now, I'm trying to set the color like this:
//

foreach (GameObject playerModel in players)  
        {  
            foreach (Player player in PhotonNetwork.PlayerList)  
            {  
                Debug.Log(playerModel.GetComponent<PlayerControl>().GetPlayerID() + ", " + player.ActorNumber);  
                if (playerModel.GetComponent<PlayerControl>().GetPlayerID() == player.ActorNumber)  
                {  
                    string color = (string) player.CustomProperties["character"];  
                    playerModel.GetComponent<Renderer>().material = Resources.Load<Material>("Materials/" + color);  
                      
                }  
            }  
        }  

The playerModel.GetComponent<> ... .ActorNumber doesn't work because it's only locally setting the ownerID, and for everyone else it returns 0. What is the correct way to do something like this?

Comments

Tobias
2021-06-21 09:52:38

There are plenty of ways to get this working.
I would recommend one of those two:
a) If the players select the color before instantiating the character (and the color never changes afterwards), you can send some "Instantiation Data" with the Instantiate. A script on the prefab should read this and apply the color.
b) Store the color as a Custom Property of each player. Remote clients can read each player's color property and apply it.