Support for NetworkBehaviour

[André Gröschel]

Hi there,

I'm evaluating Odin for our multiplayer project and found that while support for MonoBehaviours and ScriptableObjects is present and really awesome, NetworkBehaviour does not seem to be included. Can you tell me if you have any plans of supporting it and if yes, whats the ETA?

Cheers, André

[Tor Esa Vestergaard]

Yeah, NetworkBehaviour isn't quite supported by Odin yet, due to its peculiar behaviour. SyncVars and the custom editor stuff means it's full of special cases.

This is definitely on the list of things that we're going to look into - however, unlike other Unity types, this one will need a bunch of custom support. Actually, since we now have someone who considers it a blocking issue, I'll dedicate a few hours today towards seeing whether I can quickly hammer out support for NetworkBehaviour. So far, we've just done some preliminary testing and concluded that it will probably be pretty troublesome. If it proves to be easier than expected, I'll note it in here when I'm done, and if you can then send me a mail at [e-mail] with your Asset Store invoice number, then I'll send you a build with support included - then you can test it out for any possible issues I didn't catch and we'll work from there, as we don't currently have any comprehensive networking tests set up.

I should note that, even when we do come to support this with things like SerializedNetworkBehaviour, [SyncVar] will not change - it will still only support the same basic types being synced. Odin's serialization will not automatically augment what can be synced over the network. You will however be able to use Odin's serialization for non-synced members, and even without the serialization, you will of course be able to use Odin's attributes for tweaking the editor itself.

[André Gröschel]

Hi Tor,

great to hear! Would be glad to help you testing it...sending you my mail. Cheers!

[André Gröschel]

regarding SyncVars...I understand that only a few types are supported by Unity. From the docs:

The allowed SyncVar types are;

• Basic type (byte, int, float, string, UInt64, etc) • Built-in Unity math type (Vector3, Quaternion, etc), • Structs containing allowable types .

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Networking.SyncVarAttribute.html

[Tor Esa Vestergaard]

I sent you a build for testing - please let me know how it goes.

[André Gröschel]

works like a charm so far! :) Tested with C# 4.6 in Unity 2017.1 and everything works, also all SyncVar types, including structs Thank you!

[Tor Esa Vestergaard]

Great to hear! I'll mark this as resolved, then - do let us know if any issues crop up though.