Question by jmparavicini · Jan 03, 2018 at 04:00 PM · c#error networking

UNet NetworkLobbyManager can't connect with ip address/

I am currently trying to create a lobby where player can connect to it with the network discovery component. To do so I first tried that everything works with the default NetworkManager. To try it I had a simple setup in my scene. I had the NetworkManager which I extended with the following code:

 public class MyNetManager : NetworkManager
 {
 
     public NetworkDiscovery discovery;
 
     public override void OnStartHost()
     {
         discovery.Initialize();
         discovery.StartAsServer();
 
     }
 
     public override void OnStartClient(NetworkClient client)
     {
         discovery.showGUI = false;
     }
 
     public override void OnStopClient()
     {
         discovery.StopBroadcast();
         discovery.showGUI = true;
     }
 }

This extension is quite straight forward. I take the advantage of the NetworkDiscovery to connect to the Game. As expected when someone is hosting a game, the NetworkDiscovery finds this game and can connect to it.

The Problem

When I tried to change the NetworkManager to a NetworkLobbyManager I started to get weird issues. First issue was that when someone tried to connect to a lobby with the NetworkDiscovery it threw an error saying that the lobbyPlayer needs to be added to the spawn able objects, which I found weird as it never asked me to do this when trying to connect to the localhost. After adding the LobbyPlayer and trying again to connect to the lobby I get another error. On the client it was giving an Index out of Range error. After investigating I found out that the error came from the LobbyPlayer script at this line: lobby.lobbySlots[m_Slot] = this;. So basically it failed to add the player on the client, however, I did see the 2 players connected on the host.

Finnally it also gave me an error when trying to set ready on the client in the lobby. Unknown message ID 43 connId: 1

So my questions are

Why did it ask for me to add the playerLobby to be added to the spawn-able objects?
Why did it fail to add the player on the client but not on the host?
Is there any way I can use the network discovery with the NetworkLobbyManager?

Thanks in advance and if any other information is needed I'll happily provide it.

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