IEnableableInputComponentData

Unity Engine
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We sometimes get optional input data from clients.
Such as body tracking data.
In this case, we want to

  • Play animations for clients which doesn’t provide tracking data.
  • Apply tracking data for clients which provides tracking data.

Then, we want to distinguish them by whether the tracking data component is enabled.

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Also, we could reduce network bandwidth usage with this.
We don’t need to send disabled input data.

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Hey RamType0!

Use AutoCommandTarget.Enabled for this.

  • If true, the user is providing tracking data.
  • If false, they are not.

Component that automates command “reading and sending” (for clients) or “writing, using, and broadcasting” (for the server). When the AutoCommandTarget component is Enabled, the entity is considered as an input source for ICommandData’s for the client and all non empty command buffers present on the entity are serialized into the OutgoingCommandDataStreamBufferComponent, along with the id of the ghost they are sent to.
On the server side, when a command is deserialized from the IncomingCommandDataStreamBufferComponent, the corresponding entity is looked up, and if the AutoCommandTarget component is enabled, the commands are added to the corresponding input command buffer.
Remarks: To use the AutoCommandTarget, the target entity must have a GhostOwnerComponent.

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IMHO, disabling AutoCommandTarget just stop sending commands to server, and the server uses latest input from clients even after we stop sending commands, isn’t it?

Also, AutoCommandTarget works per instantiated ghost prefab.
So we cannot disable some of InputComponentData and enable some of InputComponentData of same ghost.