If I can't use rigidbodies to move my character. How do I go about blasting a player away?

Lii

Hi guys!

I've been a long time lurker and I'm trying to learn photon bolt.

If I can't use rigidbodies to move my character. How do I go about blasting a player away from an explosion in an authoritative manner? Do I need to code my own physics movement in my player controller?

stanchion

That's probably a good way to go, you already have to handle gravity yourself using the character controller. You can also use a rigidbody (disabled on non owner) and have the actual player as a child that you lerp yourself. That works around the rigidbody not working with the client side prediction and so on.

Lii

The 2nd option sounds really good. Just to elaborate so that I understand clearly. On the host/server I have rigidbody game objects that are parents of the bolt entities / players. And the bolt entities then send their positional information across the network, thus replication ridigbody movements?

stanchion

The rigidbody is the parent/entity, the "player" that is rendered is a child.