What happened to NetworkStart in NetworkBehaviour?

Unity Engine
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Hello everyone,
This seems like a very dumb question, but at the Moment I am learning to use Netcode for Gameobjects (i.e. NetworkBehaviour) for a multiplayer setup. As the title says, i am stuck with the NetworkStart() Methode. The documentation https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/docs/0.1.0/basics/networkbehavior tells that this methode exists (and is usable just as the Start() Methode in MonoBehaviour?), but it seems not to trigger. Can anyone please help me?

  • How do i use it?
  • When is it called?
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Looks like OnNetworkSpawn replaced NetworkStart, according to this page https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/docs/migration/upgrade-guide.

Check you’re looking at v1.0.0 of the documentation, although it doesn’t help in this case as the latest version of the page you looked at still mentions NetworkStart.

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It’s OnNetworkSpawn now. It gets called whenever a NetworkObject gets spawned.
On the server: When you call Spawn(); on a new NetworkObject to spawn it.
On the clients: When the NetworkObject gets called through a spawn call of the server.

OnNetworkSpawn always gets called after Awake but is not guaranteed to be called before/after Start.

One difference between Start on OnNetworkSpawn is that you have to use the ‘override’ keyword like this:

public override void OnNetworkSpawn()
{
     .........
}
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