Network.Instantiate a Non-prefab

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I’ve been trying to figure this one out for hours with no luck. I’m trying to Instantiate a line renderer across a networked game, but I need to calculate how one player draws the line and then have it instantiated across the network. My code looks something like this:

if(Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")){
		newLine = Instantiate(line, transform.position, transform.rotation);
		LR = newLine.GetComponent(LineRenderer);
		LR.SetVertexCount(1);
		point1 = FindNewPoint();
		LR.SetPosition(0, point1);
	}

	if(Input.GetButtonUp("Fire1")){
		LR.SetVertexCount(2);
		point2 = FindNewPoint();
		LR.SetPosition(1, point2);
		
		
		EditorUtility.ReplacePrefab(newLine, Resources.Load("RecalculatedLineRenderer"));
		Destroy(newLine);
		
		canDraw = false;
		Network.Instantiate(Resources.Load("RecalculatedLineRenderer"),transform.position, transform.rotation, 0);
		GC.networkView.RPC("CalculateAngle", RPCMode.AllBuffered, point1.x, point1.y, point2.x, point2.y);

The problem is I don’t know how to access the point vectors of the line renderer after it’s been created, as far as I know the only way to change those points is through the LineRenderer.SetPosition();, otherwise I’d be able to instantiate across the network initially then send out an RPC and change those points after doing the calculations for drawing the line.

So I went to this method of instantiating locally, doing the calculations, then replacing the prefab with EditorUtility.ReplacePrefab() and then doing the Network.Instantiate(). I thought it was working till I tried to make a build to test the networking. I guess you can’t make a build if you use EditorUtility >.< . This would be easier if I could just do Network.Instantiate(newLine : GameObject, etc…); but unlike a regular Instantiate(), Unity will only do prefabs for Network.Instantiate()… Is there something I’m missing? or any ideas on how I could pull this off?

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GAAAAh. Thought about it a little more after posting that. I could just instantiate then do an RPC call and do LineRenderer.SetPosition(); So I just had to add a line with

 newLine.networkView.RPC("DrawLine", RPCMode.AllBuffered, point1, point2);

Did not think that one through all the way…>.<