Get local player's game object

Unity Engine
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The new multiplayer API exposes a isLocalPlayer boolean which is useful for checking if the script is being ran on the local player.

Is there anything in the API to get the local player’s game object?

I see PlayerController in the docs which has a reference to the gameobject, but I don’t know how to retrieve this component.

I also see playerControllerId on various components, but no example for retrieving the PlayerController with this.

I know that I can name the local player’s game object and retrieve it using Find or even better tag the local player’s game object and retrieve it using FindGameObjectWithTag.

But is there a better way through the Networking api?

Thanks

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I like to use the override, OnStartLocalPlayer, which will only be called on NetworkBehaviours on the local player object (and then cache a reference to the gameObject as needed).

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There is a list of players in the NetworkConnection object - there could be multiple players on a client.

On a client, it is in NetworkManager.client.connection.playerControllers - this is only players on this client. Not all the players in the game.

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singleton accessor missing:
NetworkManager.singleton.client.connection.playerControllers[0].gameobject

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Did you drag & drop a NetworkManager into your scene ?
Do you use your own NetworkManager and have made your own Awake function ? That kill the singleton too

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How can you get all player’s game Object ? Do we have to make our own list ?

From client side, is there a way to access theses player with a synchronized id ? Or do you have to make our own list/id ?

Tanks

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I wasn’t talking about an error I received, but about a correction from seanr’s code line, which does not work because it lacks the singleton call.

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I’d like to know this, too. Did you figure it out?

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Does ClientScene.localPlayers() do what you need?

You can also use the netId propetry of NetworkBehavior and ClientScene.FindLocalObject(NetworkInstanceId netId)

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Thanks.
This:

public override void OnStartLocalPlayer()
{
print(“OnStartLocalPlayer”);
GameObject player = ClientScene.FindLocalObject(netId);
print ("player y: " + player.transform.position.y);
}

worked.