How to use an RPC to send an animation over the network?

Questions & Answers
1

I am working on a 2player (1v1) game, online thanks to Unity’s native networking code and want to play an animation on a character for BOTH the host and the joiner. I searched around a little and read that I need to do it normally for the host, then use an RPC to send the updated info (saying to play the animation) to the joiner. However I didn’t find any posts actually walking someone through this, and I do not know how to utilize RPCs yet.

Do I need any specific component on my main game object that holds all the scripts, is it just a simple line of code, or what?

2

Have you read the RPC Manual?
Since you can’t just send an animation, so you will either need to pass it’s name or some other value that will trigger a state change in the remote client (depends really on the setup in your game)

3

You don’t have to send any animation over network. It always play locally on any device.
You have to communicate over all devices that it is a time to start playing animation.

You have to use RPC for this purpose only. So no jittering generates at all for your game.