New Users - Help Understand RPCs

Unity Engine
1

Hi all,

So I just started with Unity last week and am trying to figure out how exactly RPC’s can be used.

I would like to have a server which is just a standalone application that creates a server Network.InitializeServer(maxNumPlayers, serverPort, false); and stays open.

However, I seem to be struggling with doing this and using RPC’s. For example I have a chat system that consists of a game object in all clients, with an attached script that uses rpc’s. I call the RPC using networkView.RPC ("SendChatMsg", RPCMode.All, msgToSend); and the RPC is defined lower in the code as

[RPC]
	void SendChatMsg(string msg) {
		chatLog = chatLog + "Message: " + msg + "\n";
	}

My problem is that when I make the networkView.RPC call, it seems to call the function on the same client, but does not call it on any other networked clients.

What am I missing here? Does the RPC need to exist on the server as well with a game object and everything?

Thank you for your help!

2

When you call a RPC, you call it from the local player (your pc,as client) to the player that is located on the server, the player that is supposed to be you.
So, when you call networkview.RPC , you are calling your player that lives on the server side,you are not calling the other players.

3

I am not too sure if maybe all your clients just create a server? First step would be to make sure the clients you expect on one server are actually there.
Aside from that, the RPC just calls a method on the networked GameObject on all active clients in the same game.