Question by Der-Die-Das · Mar 31, 2019 at 07:28 PM · multiplayer photon rts pun multiplayer networking

Photon PUN 2 RTS one time information sharing

Hey, so I'm very new to photon pun and I started with a simple RTS like prototype.

So far I have player movement working with just a transform view. (Not typical for RTS, but whatever)

The map for the game is procedural. So I want the master client to generate a seed and share it with the others. This works right now. I do it with OnPhotonSerializeView. In there I do something like this:

   if (PhotonNetwork.IsMasterClient)
             {
                 stream.SendNext(seed);
             }
             else
             {
                 if (seed == int.MinValue)
                 {
                     seed = (int)stream.ReceiveNext();
                     GenerateMap(seed);
                     DisplayMap();
                 }
             }

Which works. But I don't want to send the map seed all the time. Which I think happens. Right?

So how could I share the seed only when a new player connects?

And further on. If I add building placement. How do I share the info that I placed a building one time to all the players?

Sorry if this is a too complex question. But please point me in the right direction. Thanks everyone (:

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