PunRPC - Updating the UI in a lobby (doing something wrong)

xblade724

So the UI has a list of players. Let's say it defaults to say "0" for the # of players.

Whenever a player joins the lobby, I want EVERYONE's UI to also read numOfPlayers++.

So the master client (M) joins, total players 1.
Another client (C) joins, total players 2.

Right now, I'm trying this (and it doesn't seem to work):

public override void OnJoinedRoom() 
{
    base.OnJoinedRoom();
    RpcUpdatePlayerUI();
}

[PunRPC]
void RpcUpdatePlayerUI()
{
    int playerCount = PhotonNetwork.room.PlayerCount;
    playerCountTxt.text = playerCount.ToString();
}

Results:
M = 1
C = 2

My guess is that Cwasn't a master client, so it didn't have permission to Rpc to the others, so it only assigned itself.

So with UNET, I could just [Command] to talk to the host to Rpc to others. How would I do the equiv. in Photon?

JohnTube

Hi @xblade724,

two things:
1. I do not think that there is a need to override OnJoinedRoom.
2. I do not think that there is a need to use a PunRPC to synchronize players count UI! You just need to know when the players count is being updated every time. You can do this like this:

// another player has joined
void OnPhotonPlayerConnected(PhotonPlayer newPlayer){
    UpdatePlayersCountText();
}

// local player has joined
void OnJoinedRoom(){
    UpdatePlayersCountText();
}	

void UpdatePlayersCountText(){
    int playerCount = PhotonNetwork.room.PlayerCount;
    playerCountTxt.text = playerCount.ToString();
}

xblade724

Ahh this gives me a lot to work with, thanks ;D