[PhotonNetwork] How can I stock a allocateViewID from a player and reuse it later with another player ?

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to create a multiplayers game for fun. But I have a little problem with OnPhotonSerializeView() and/or the viewID (i don't know the real cause of my issue).

In short, when you join a room, you are not in the game yet. There is a list of players split in 2 teams. Here is the problem :

• if the "master" creates the room and begins to play, and another player joins the game later, only the first one sees the other moves.

• but if the 2 players enter the game together, they see each other moving... Strange...

Now, how i tried to do that : in the room, if you are the master, you start the game by opening the map and sending a rpc to the ready players to join.

When a player joins the game, he sends a buffered rpc in order to :

• spawn in the map for each player in game

• add his name in a list of players in game that all the players hold (and when a player joins the others, he knows who he has to spawn in his map)

so, the code to spawn (in short) followed by the script to synchronize the movement :

 public void SpawnOnNetwork ()
 {
     photonView.RPC("NewPlayer", PhotonTargets.AllBuffered, PhotonNetwork.player, PhotonNetwork.AllocateViewID());
 }

 [RPC] void NewPlayer (PhotonPlayer p, int id)
 {
     // If i'm inGame => spawn the player
     if ((State)PhotonNetwork.player.customProperties["s"] == State.inGame)
         StartCoroutine(SpawnPlayer(p, id));

     Add (p, id);  // List<Player> avec Player = (PhotonPlayer , int)
 }
 
 IEnumerator SpawnPlayer (PhotonPlayer p, int id)
 {
     Transform newPlayer = Instantiate(player, Vector3.zero, player.transform.rotation) as Transform;
     newPlayer.GetComponent<PhotonView>().viewID = id;

     if (p.isLocal) {
         newPlayer.name = "MyPlayer";
         newPlayer.position = new Vector3 (Random.Range(0.5f,1.5f), 1.5f, Random.Range(0.5f,1.5f));
         ActivePlayer (newPlayer); // set scripts to control the player
     }
     else {
         newPlayer.name = "OtherPlayer";
         yield return StartCoroutine(AskPosition(p)); // get the position of the player
         Player_Controller pc = newPlayer.GetComponent<Player_Controller>() as Player_Controller;
         pc.startPos = lastOtherPlayerPos;
         pc.endPos = lastOtherPlayerPos;
         lastOtherPlayerPos = Vector3.zero;
     }
 }

 IEnumerator AskPosition (PhotonPlayer p)
 {
     photonView.RPC("Give", p, PhotonNetwork.player);
     while (lastOtherPlayerPos.Equals(Vector3.zero))
         yield return null;
 }

 [RPC] void Give (PhotonPlayer p)
 {
     photonView.RPC("Receive", p, GameObject.Find("MyPlayer").transform.position);
 }

 [RPC] void Receive (Vector3 position)
 {
     lastOtherPlayerPos = position;
 }

 public void SpawnPlayers ()
 {
     foreach (Player p in playersInGame)
         StartCoroutine(SpawnPlayer (p.p, p.id));
 }

public class Player_Controller : Photon.MonoBehaviour {

 ...
 public Vector3 startPos;
 public Vector3 endPos;
 ...

 void Update ()
 {
     if (photonView.isMine)
     {
         // control of the player
     }
     else
     {
         SyncedMovement();
     }
 }

 void SyncedMovement()
 {
     ...
     syncTime += Time.deltaTime;
     transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(startPos, endPos, syncTime / syncDelay);
     transform.rotation = Quaternion.Lerp(startRot, endRot, syncTime / syncDelay);
 }

 void OnPhotonSerializeView(PhotonStream stream, PhotonMessageInfo info)
 {
     if (stream.isWriting)
     {
         stream.SendNext(transform.position);
         stream.SendNext(transform.rotation);
         ...
     }
     else
     {
         endPos = (Vector3)stream.ReceiveNext();
         startPos = transform.position;
         endRot = (Quaternion)stream.ReceiveNext();
         startRot = transform.rotation;
         ...
         
         syncTime = 0f;
         syncDelay = Time.time - lastSyncTime;
         lastSyncTime = Time.time;
     }
 }

}

last time, i had a alert in unity console about it : "Received OnSerialization for view ID 1001. We have no such PhotonView!" but i don't know where it comes from...

if you have a solution, or a better idea to do sth similar, i'm interested !!!
Thanks a lot for your time !!!
Antoine
ps: sorry for any language mistakes... ;)