Using player.CustomProperties to store Colors and Materials

CuirassEntertainment

Hello everyone!

Setting up a sample project to test a few of the networking packages that are available and so far I've had success getting Photon set up. I'm building a lobby and have reached the part where I need to start sending and updating data between the players. The first thing I've tried to do is set up a custom property for which color the player has selected, and placed the R, G, B, A values into a Hashtable.

public void SetColor() {
localUserColor = new Color ();
localUserColor.r = 0;
localUserColor.g = 0;
localUserColor.b = 0;
localUserColor.a = 1;

Hashtable colorHash = new Hashtable();
colorHash.Add("R", localUserColor.r);
colorHash.Add("G", localUserColor.g);
colorHash.Add("B", localUserColor.b);
colorHash.Add("A", localUserColor.a);
PhotonNetwork.player.SetCustomProperties(colorHash);
}

I had planned to update the player color for all players under a foreach loop:

public void OnPhotonPlayerPropertiesChanged () {
foreach (PhotonPlayer player in PhotonNetwork.playerList) {

}
}

Problem is I'm having issues solving how to access the values of the hash table to plug them back into the image's Color. I combed the documentation but it doesn't seem to work the way I think it does.

Totally new to Networked games, any advice is wonderful.

Thank you,

CuirassEntertainment

Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, can anyone point me in the right direction to utilizing these hash tables?

[Deleted User]

Hi @CuirassEntertainment,

accessing Hashtables is mostly the same as accessing arrays. Let's assume that 'ht' is your already set up Hashtable and you want to access a stored value, in this case we are using 'R'.

float r = (float) ht["R"];
// do the others as well
localUserColor = new Color(r, g, b, a);

There also is a callback which notifies you about changed player properties. It is OnPhotonPlayerPropertiesChanged(object[] playerAndUpdatedProps). you can read about this one over here.