Request to merge different ghost prefab with same archetype into same chunk

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I would like official to improve netcode to merge different ghost prefab with same archetype into same chunk instead of currently each new ghost prefab with same archetype will go into completely new chunk. The use case is game designer always would like to create different ghost prefabs with same archetype that only some data of componenst are slightly different and/or just different visual but doing this will greatly affect performance. Hopefully official can improve it at 1.3 or later.

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EDIT: I’m mistaken, see Cristian’s answer below. It’s by design.

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we are doing that intentionally because of the way the serialization code is written. We do that on both server and client. That would require removing the GhostType shared component and change the way we iterate over the chunks and apply different serialization etc to ghosts as we go, instead of assuming the same serialization applied to the whole archetype.
It is a medium size of work, especially client side to cover all the cases.

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