Networking Demo - ThirdPerson Scene - Adding an ObjectLabel (name tag) to Lerpz?

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Hello All,

I have recently started using Unity and I love it!

I am trying out the networking project and I wanted to start playing around with it.
http://unity3d.com/support/resources/example-projects/networking-example

I especially liked the Third Person scene.

Then I saw the wonderful ObjectLabel script and I decided to add a floating name tag to each player as they logged in. When I tried this for a single person everything worked just great… I added a static object to the scene with a GUI text and the objectlabel script and I just needed to add the objectlabel’s target to the logged in player in the OnNetworkLoaded level.

But now I want to create a new name tag for everyone who logs in. How should I do this…? Should I create a name tag prefab and instantiate it in the OnNetworkLoadedLevel or should I try and put the Name tag object into the ThirdPersonPlayer Prefab? Also what should my Network View (I am assuming I need one or more) watch?

Or should I try to do it another way entirely?

Would love some suggestings from the knowledgable…

Thanks you for your time,

Lucia

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Just thought I would post a quick follow up on this post for anyone else who is interested in hearing what I finally did…

Turns out I was thinking about solving this all wrong… I am actually doing a local create of the object label using a simple instantiate inside of the network init even handler for the Third Person Player prefab. I populate the ObjectLabel with the person’s name and that it about it. Networking the Object Label probably would not have ever worked the way I wanted it to.

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basicly you need to create a list of all the users id’s and names on each client and then you can attach a GUI label or a textmesh to the remote player and set that user’s name as the text property.