Scene objects randomly fail to enable

Unity Engine
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On the client scene objects seem to have about a 50% chance of working vs being disabled, anyone know why?

EDIT: docs
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UNetSceneObjects.html

EDIT2:
does anyone know how scene object netids are generated? How do client and server agree on what game objects to synchronise?

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Short answer - server initializes netId’s and sends them to a clients, where they are applied to the objects in the scene.

Tips:
0. Make sure all NetworkIdentities are enabled before scene loads. NetworkIdentities manage being enabled/disabled on their own.

If it’s disabled on scene load - it doesn’t exists. Because you know. Networking is hard, doing checks are hard and design is a time waste.

  1. Make sure server and client have the same amount of NetworkIdentity components in the scene;
  2. Make sure server and client scripts have the same amount of:
  • SyncVar’s
  • Cmd’s
  • ClientRpc’s
  • SyncLists
  1. Make sure server and client have the same SyncVar structs structure. Otherwise this will cause failure whole scene payload deserialization failure.
  2. Lastly - sometimes UnetWeaver fails, due to Editor Serialization, creating multiple instances of classes, which contain multiple SyncVar’s… Yeah rule #2 is now screwed. What to do in such case? Full reimport\Library deletion + rebuild usually helps. If not - you’ve probably missed something.

Have fun.

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But how does the client decide what game object gets what netid, is it hierarchy position or a uuid?

EDIT:

I forgot to mention it works 100% when server and client are on the same machine, it only fails when run on a remote server.

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As far as I remember - it’s assetId and sceneId that determines it