Get PhotonView through Player object / Get all PhotonViews in current room

StrikeAgainst
2022-01-13 12:50:14

I'm having a case where I need to acess each player's photon-instantiated gameobject in a room in short intervals. I figured I could do this via

PhotonNetwork.CurrentRoom.Players    

and then grab each player's individual PhotonView Component, until I figured that the Player object doesn't seem to support any functionality to do so. Am I missing something or is this just impossible?

Alternatively I'd also take some functionality to get all PhotonViews in the current room, but apart from

FindObjectsOfType<PhotonView>()    

which could kill my performance, there seems to be none as well. Does someone have an idea how to do so in a reasonably performant way?

Comments

DhoodPro
2022-01-14 01:40:29

I would propose creating a list to hold the players in the room then adding to the list as a player enters through an RPC. Then run your intervals locally (preferably for performance), or through a stream, by just searching through the list of players.

StrikeAgainst
2022-01-20 01:27:39

That's rather cumbersome... but I guess there ain't another way then.

JohnTube
2022-01-21 06:05:13

Hi @StrikeAgainst,

The idea is that PhotonView ViewID is generated from the Player's ActorNr.

More details here.

public List<PhotonView> GetAllPhotonViewsPerPlayer(Player player)    
    {    
      if (player != null)    
      {    
        List<PhotonView> list = new List<PhotonView>();    
        int actorNr = player.ActorNumber;    
        for(int viewId = actorNr * PhotonNetwork.MAX_VIEW_IDS + 1; viewId < (actorNr + 1) * PhotonNetwork.MAX_VIEW_IDS; viewId++)    
        {    
          PhotonView photonView = PhotonView.Find(viewId);    
          if (photonView)    
          {    
            list.Add(photonView);    
          }    
        }    
        return list;    
      }    
      return null;    
    }