How to check which player belongs to the client.

brannydonowt

Hey there,

I've been trying to create a shop for my multiplayer game but I am having some problems because I am not sure how to access the variables for the player using the shop because I don't know how to check.

I.E. There are 4 people in a game, one of them is using the shop and buys an item. How would I know which player is buying the item?

I am using the latest version of Unity, and the latest version of PUN.

I'm not sure if there are any other ways to do what I am trying to do, but if you have any that aren't too complicated, be sure to tell me

Any help would be appreciated, thank you for your time.

dontonka

Hello Branny,

In Photon the way to identify a specific player is by getting a PhotonPlayer object of such player, and using ID or name property of that object to differentiate players. In my game I always identify player by their name, which are unique in the context of my game.

PhotonNetwork.player is returning the local player.
PhotonNetwork.playerList give you a list of all the player in the room.

http://doc-api.exitgames.com/en/pun/current/pun/doc/class_photon_network.html
http://doc-api.exitgames.com/en/pun/current/pun/doc/class_photon_player.html

Hope this helps

Cheers,
Don T.

brannydonowt

dontonka wrote:

Hello Branny,

In Photon the way to identify a specific player is by getting a PhotonPlayer object of such player, and using ID or name property of that object to differentiate players. In my game I always identify player by their name, which are unique in the context of my game.

PhotonNetwork.player is returning the local player.
PhotonNetwork.playerList give you a list of all the player in the room.

http://doc-api.exitgames.com/en/pun/current/pun/doc/class_photon_network.html
http://doc-api.exitgames.com/en/pun/current/pun/doc/class_photon_player.html

Hope this helps

Cheers,
Don T.

Ah, okay... So how would I go about actually putting this into code? I have a hard time converting text into code if that makes any sense, sounds kinda stupid.

But, I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around it... How could I access the Photon.Instantiated gameObject so that I could play around with the components on there?

Thank you for the reply

FamerJoe

I haven't actually tried this, but when you instantiate the player, set the TagObject to your player gameobject for later reference:

playerGameObject.GetPhotonView().owner.TagObject = playerGameObject;

So later, you could reference the player's gameobject via:

PhotonNetwork.player.TagObject