Photon FPS disable/enable objects over network?

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1

Hi all,
My player has multiple weapons, and it works by disabling/enabling weapons depending on what your using. Now it works locally (of course), but over network it doesn’t. I hear that GameObject.Find doesn’t find inactive objects, so I’m guessing PhotonView.Find() won’t work on inactive objects. Seems to be the case, so I need help. How would I go about doing this?
Here’s the code for switching weapons

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class WeaponHandler : Photon.MonoBehaviour {

	private GameObject EquipWeapon;
	public GameObject[] Weapons;

	void Start () {
		EquipWeapon = Weapons[0];
		Weapons[0].SetActive(true);
	}

	void Update () {
		if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Alpha1) && EquipWeapon != Weapons[0]){
			SwitchWeapon(EquipWeapon, Weapons[0]);
		}
		if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Alpha2) && EquipWeapon != Weapons[1]){
			SwitchWeapon(EquipWeapon, Weapons[1]);
		}
		if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Alpha3) && EquipWeapon != Weapons[2]){
			SwitchWeapon(EquipWeapon, Weapons[2]);
		}
	}

	void SwitchWeapon(GameObject old, GameObject NewW){
		if (photonView.isMine || PhotonNetwork.connected == false) {
			EquipWeapon = NewW;
			old.SetActive (false);
			NewW.SetActive (true);
		}
		if (PhotonNetwork.connected == true) {
			photonView.RPC ("Enable", PhotonTargets.AllBuffered, EquipWeapon.GetPhotonView().viewID,  NewW.GetPhotonView().viewID);
		}
	}

	[RPC]
	public void Enable(int old, int NewWW){
		PhotonView.Find (old).gameObject.SetActive (false);
		PhotonView.Find (NewWW).gameObject.SetActive (true);
	}
}
3

i hate being the necromancer but this problem has been really annoying me for a while, i finally just figured it out by myself but i came across this thread while looking for an answer, so ill put the answer here for anyone else looking for it, and this thread isnt too old so maybe the OP might still be searching for it too

so this is how i fixed it with JS (gun1 gun2 gun3 are the different guns which are gameobjects, using OP’s case as an example), using onphotonserializeview:

function OnPhotonSerializeView(stream : PhotonStream, info : PhotonMessageInfo)
{
	if(stream.isWriting)
	{
		stream.SendNext(gun1.active);
		stream.SendNext(gun2.active);
		stream.SendNext(gun3.active);

		
	}
	
	
	else
	{
		gun1.active = stream.ReceiveNext();
		gun2.active = stream.ReceiveNext();
		gun3.active = stream.ReceiveNext();

		
		
		
	}
2

When your game starts have all then weapons enabled. You could find them using GetComponentsInChildren() if they have a particular component on them, or tag them and use FindObjectsWithTag(), though that is more problematic as I think it finds everything. Having found them, save the objects in your script, then disable all the weapons and remember which you’ve left enabled and active.

I find the approach of having everything enabled so I can find it and then disabling it is the best approach and then you’re caching things and not calling slow methods like find during the frame, albeit not very often.

4 
I know is an old thread, but hey, someone may find this useful. Don't mess with objects, 
just send the value over RPC. 

  if (PhotonNetwork.connected == true) 
  { 
       photonView.RPC ("DisableObj", RpcTarget.AllBuffered, false);  // just pass the false value
  }


  //  This should be on the object being disabled.
  [PunRPC]
	public void DisableObj(bool setActive)
  {
		gameObject.SetActive (setActive);  // disables object, photon friendly 
  }