Looking for some help on manually allocating NetworkViewIDs

Hey,

I've been trying to make an FPS lately. I made a server project and a client project, got a database working for storing account info, and got a simple (albeit buggy) room creation/joining system up.

I use RPCs to locally instantiate each player character. This works well, it detects which character is owned by which player and gives them access to movement if it's owned by the player. It also deletes unnecessary scripts and GameObjects on the player character prefab if it's the client isn't the owner (for example, the camera and a MouseLook script are being deleted now).

The problem is that I can't seem to get the NetworkViews to work properly. Each character has a NetworkView added to it when it's instantiated. I use Network.AllocateViewID() to set the NetworkViewID properly. I've tested with GUI and through the Inspector various times and this works (unless I'm mistaken): each player character has the same viewID on every client. It's set to observe the Transform with Reliable Delta Compressed as its state synchronization mode.

I've tested with two clients, but it doesn't work. The other player's movement is not sent across the network.

I thought it was because the players do not have a connection with each other, but rather only with the server, but when I tried to do the same method on the server, despite both NetworkViews having the same ID, the Transform wasn't being sent over.

So maybe I'm not fully aware of how NetworkViews work... I tried using NetworkView.SetScope() to true during the server test, but it didn't seem to make a difference.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help that can be offered!

EDIT: Here's what the player character's script, Player.js, has inside it. I added some comments too. Mostly, it's a very simple movement system:

var translation:int; //Forward movement. -1, 0, or 1 based on input. var translation2:int; //Sideways movement. -1, 0, or 1 based on input. var functional:boolean = false; //Does this client own this Player? var transformNV:NetworkView; //'Transform Network View'. Another script //adds this NetworkView to the Player and sets it to Reliable Delta //Compressed and sets the Observed property to the Transform of the Player.

function Update() { if (functional) //If this script is owned by this client {

      if (Input.GetKey("w")) //Checking each Input key
         translation = 1; //Setting Translation based on it
      if (Input.GetKey("s"))
         translation = -1;
      if (Input.GetKey("a"))
         translation2 = -1;
      if (Input.GetKey("d"))
         translation2 = 1;
      
      if (!Input.GetKey("w") && !Input.GetKey("s"))
         translation = 0;
      if (!Input.GetKey("d") && !Input.GetKey("a"))
         translation2 = 0;
      if (translation != 0 || translation2 != 0) //Translating:
         transform.Translate((translation2 * 12) * Time.deltaTime,0,(translation * 12) * Time.deltaTime);
 }

}

Some more details about my testing, hopefully it'll help:

• I tested the Client project with 1 instance running in the Unity editor and another running in a built client (it won't let me open the same project twice, so one has to be a built client instead of in the editor).

• I have each client connected to a Server, which is running as a separate project in the Unity editor.

• I'm sure that the connection is working. I've sent lots of RPCs between the server and the clients.

• I use the server to AllocateViewID() and send that viewID via RPC to other clients.

• I've used GUI.Label on the built client to display the viewID of each player in the game. I looked over the results using the Label and the Inspector of the other client, and the player NetworkViewIDs match.

Just now, I looked over it some more, and it seems the NetworkViewID of my 'main menu' NetworkView (on the client, used to connect to rooms and the server) is matching the other client's player's NetworkViewID (they're both 2). Is that the problem? The main menu's NetworkViewID is 'Scene' and the other is 'Allocated'. The NetworkView for the Main Menu is off because I used it only for RPCs to and from the server.