Finding an item by its photonview id..

benk0913
2013-06-22 21:29:34

Well, Ive been trying to code that when the player picks an item, he sends the master client a request to destroy its gameObject from the scene. Thats because the client is not its owner and I could do that just with photonnetwork.destroy..

Now, Ive made a method which picks the items photonviews id and sends it by an rpc to the master client. The master client recieves the photonview id and from there... Im stuck, I can't figure out how to locate the gameObject by its photonview id.

How do I do that? Is there a better way to do so?

Many thanks for anyone who helps. :)

Comments

Chubysnow
2013-06-23 14:29:24

To find a photon view by the id you can use PhotonView.Find(x); (x is the id, an integer). That returns the value of the photon view. To find the game object just add a .gameObject after (x)

benk0913
2013-06-24 14:44:25

Many thanks, I used that :)

hopetolive
2020-02-09 12:47:37

Thanks so much :smiley: Do you know that is this method optimal? I mean using "GameObject.Find()" is expansive operation for games. Is "PhotonView.Find(x)" also not good method to use? Do they work in similar ways?

bdar
2020-09-28 14:57:09

IMHO I think it might be (way) more optimal than GameObject.Find() because Photon actually pools everything that got instanced via PhotonNetwork.Instantiate(). But someone from Photon would give a more proper answer to that...

@hopetolive wrote: »

Thanks so much :smiley: Do you know that is this method optimal? I mean using "GameObject.Find()" is expansive operation for games. Is "PhotonView.Find(x)" also not good method to use? Do they work in similar ways?