FPS Networking..

Unity Engine
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Ahoy thar me maties.

I’m looking to see if anyone has successfully taken the 3rd person networking controller and converted it to first person. I’m having a heck of a time getting it done myself. Lot of crazy syncing issues because the controller script is specifically built for network AND 3rd person. Any help or ideas?

Thx mates,
Capn J

PS here’s a quick WIP of where I’m at…
(And yes, there are 2 huge pirate ships)

http://www.designelement10.com/DE_Pyrates/

Let me know what ya think!

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for first person I would potentially just take the island demo that comes with the unity install.

Thats FPS + Networked

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I didn’t realize the Island demo was networked, I’ll give it a try and post my results! Thanks mucho

CapnJ

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At least i think so yes.

alternatively, should you require an alternative implementation, give the SFS API a go, it has a one too within the same environment but with another api, giving you the chance to understand the ideas behind it better

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Looking more closely at the Island Demo, it looks like its not set up for networked multi-player. So i wasn’t able to use any learnings from it. Not too sure about the SFS API. Being more of a 3D artist/ animator, I’m not too saavy in back-end scripts land. But if someone were to have converted the 3rd person network demo controller into a FPS networked controller for then demo, that would be more than kicka$$.

Thanks again,
CapnJ

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Start with the networking example projects. There is a third person controller there. Add a camera at eye level.

You can then create a script to switch to the eye level camera forward and turn off the rendering of the player locally, when you want to do FP. Should be moderate level programming.

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Well, got things set up thru modding the 3rd person prefab, now it looks like I have the same problem as in a couple of prior threads…connectivity is good BUT, when 2 players are connected they somehow control each others player.(Player 1 controls player 2 and visa versa) Very weird, you’d think its just a small switch but I have no clue where to look, any ideas?

Thanks,
CapnJ

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if you control the opponent player in network, then you forgot to enable / disable the right components.

the network example should give you an idea.

I personally prefer the 2 prefabs approach: Player, RemotePlayer

for myself I create the player prefab, the only prefab accepting input
for all network created players, I use the RemotePlayer (more correct in terms of networking would be ProxyPlayer), which only receives input from the networking.

And sorry on the island demo.
Guess I used too many demos in the past and mixed it with the island demo sample implementation Thomas did for SmartFoxServer