Unity Multiplayer Games

Writing a custom state serializer

While initially a game might simply serialize Transform or Rigidbody for testing, eventually it is often necessary to write a custom serialization function. This is a surprisingly easy task.

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Here is a script that sends an object's position over the network:

using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; public class ExampleUnityNetworkSerializePosition : MonoBehaviour { public void OnSerializeNetworkView( BitStream stream, ...