RPCMode Question

Questions & Answers
1

Here is the scenario.

Client attaches to server. Client sends the user name, server sends back that the user is registered or runs the code to create the username and sends back that the username was created.

To do this I send …RPCMode.Server to run the RPC. Now the Server figures out what it needs to do. Either Send back that the user is already registered or send back that they were registered as a new user.

How I send the info back to the original client? Is there any way other than to use RPCMode.all to get the info back? It seems like a waste of bandwidth to send unnecessary traffic to all client computers when only 1 needs it.

Thanks in advance and sorry if this has already been answered I just can’t seem to find the answers.

Richard

2

Hello,

When calling an RPC tagged function, Unity implicitly tries to pass another variable, after the other arguments, of type NetworkMessageInfo. This both contains a timestamp:float of when it was sent and also a sender:NetworkPlayer which is the person who sent it.
Unity is also smart enough for you to be able to simply pass a NetworkPlayer object, instead of an RPCMode into the RPC function.
So now you can do this:

@RPC
function foo(name:String, info:NetworkMessageInfo) {
    //Do Stuff
    networkView.RPC("bar", info.sender /*stuff*/);
}

Hope this helps,
Benproductions1