How To Make A Unity Multiplayer Character Selection Menu - Part 1

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

Be sure to check out the GitHub Repo if you would like to use the template to follow along with future tutorials: github.com/DapperDino/Multiplayer-Character-Select

[@jeanmestti6195]

you're the best bro, thanks a lot!

[@IronPaul]

You have some of the best and clearest Unity multiplayer tutorials on KZbin. It's good that you're back. I look forward to each lesson like a new TLoU series)

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

Thanks for the kind words! Glad to be back :)

[@mozzarella35]

my favorite part was when dapper said "It's dappin time" and proceeded to dino all over the netcode. jokes aside this dude makes great content

[@NpXAutobot]

you are the man! keep it up

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

Thanks, will do!

[@ItayK-1]

Thank you so much! i am making a funny smash bros like game for me and my friends to goof around in, this tutorial was so well made! thank you so much!

[@mr.introloon351]

Hey ! Thank you for making all these tutorials for us! it's helping quite a lot. I was wondering if you can make a video about Client Side prediction and Client Reconciliation?

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

It will be covered in varying degrees of complexity throughout the tutorials. Technically here we predict when selecting a character as we update the UI locally before sending the RPC to the server to change character as to not feel the latency. If you're referring specifically to movement prediction then it gets a lot more complex and I still need to learn more on that before I'm comfortable teaching it. (I think Unity's roadmap suggests that they are working on making it easier to implement prediction and lag compensation at some point in the future)

[@hotrod8903]

Hey there, this is a nice video so far. I do have a couple of small questions before I continue on with the video. How is this character select screen going to connect to the main menu? How can you take off the main menu screen to create your character select screen without deleting the main menu screen?

[@leventerdem8747]

Hello, my characters select buttons spawn on top of each other for some reason

[@nemethszabolcs9239]

Nice work, please more video :)

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

More to come!

[@nemethszabolcs9239]

@@DapperDinoCodingTutorials Hello, I can not solve my issue.. When im joining or selecting charakcer as "host" or "client" playerCards do not show changes. When I leave with client, after that appearing players Id in PlayerCards.

[@werlig]

I've everything like in the video, but the selected character by the client is not synchronizing. My code and how I have set up my components are exactly the same as in the repository, however, it's not working :(

[@perspectives2202]

Please move these series, I need you for my project. HERO

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

Happy to help!

[@baanan]

thank you 🙏🙏

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

Glad I could help!

[@haesslicherhuan]

I have an error that says: Assets\Scripts\CharacterSelectDisplay.cs(16,47): error CS8377: The type 'CharacterSelectState' must be a non-nullable value type, along with all fields at any level of nesting, in order to use it as parameter 'T' in the generic type or method 'NetworkList'. How can i fix this?

[@haesslicherhuan]

nevermind, found it out. I declared the CharacterSelectState as a class and not a struct.... my god...

[@realisticlyunavailable8355]

@@haesslicherhuan Thanks bro I was about to pull the trigger

[@MosleyC92]

Found the issue for me. On the CharacterSelectState Class make sure it goes public struct CharacterSelectState for the class name. Don't know if this is too late to tell you though haha

[@brettmorgan4775]

Downloading this project fresh and opening it up as it is, "build & run" gets stuck at a blank screen. Running it in the editor appears to work but that doesn't let me run multiple to test it out. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

[@bunko181]

i followed along and everything is fine, but the button for the characters are not working. it seems that the buttons are not working because it wont display the character info. i even made sure to add the on click callback for the charactericonimage. any help?

[@YevheniiZubov]

thx for tutor!

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

Welcome!

[@mcgator1208]

Is this translatable to bolt? (Unity s visual scripting)

[@ВасечкаЛазарев]

what is the difference between Mirror and NGO for you and why are you not doing Mirror now, but doing NGO

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

There are 2 main reasons for me, 1. I prefer official solutions usually over 3rd party 2. It means that when I want to use UGS for matchmaking, server hosting, etc... It's all designed to work with Unity (mainly) which makes it easier to integrate and easier to get help if needed as it's their own solution and services. Hope this helps you understand why I made this choice. These are my main reasons though I'm sure I could think of more with more time :D

[@joshdev09]

im having problem, im using steamworks transport and when i connect the host theres 2 playercards enabled and they sync eachother and when a client joins they see nothing none of it shows

[@lachlanpott7484]

Hey i've completed the entire series and added additional things such as creating public or private lobbies and specifying the amount of player per lobby, however one thing i'm slaving my head over is trying to add inputted player names from the MainMenu and have them show in the lobby, if anyone knows anything on how to do this it would be much appreciated.

[@waveclovergems2106]

Hi Dapper Dino, I have a question. I want to create a Login, Select Character, Create Character, and Game World Scene for the Client Side and Server Side ServerStart at Game World Scene only, Can I use netcode for game objects to achieve this?

[@cheetah7887]

how do i make the player cards

[@OniroStudio.]

Could you make a video about the rooms? How to implement one?

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

Can you be more specific?

[@_Smileyyy]

I know this is late but i was wondering if you could do a map selection tutorial for multiplayer

[@theWEAREANIME]

Can Someone Help me, In the tutorial he Dapper Dino Did not put in how to code start host and transfer to next scene. would someone help me how to do it? thank you very much!

[@newnomadkids]

does anyone know how to make it have a leveling system where things are locked and you have to unlock them with coins or by getting xp i am new to unity and i would love some help with this.

[@권정영-x1r]

Is it possible publish the game to the Unity website using webGL? I’ve been struggling since it keep shows the HTTP error message when I try it. It would be really helpful if somebody can help me. Thank you for the amazing video btw!!

[@RicardoSurfMusic]

what if we need to sync a string as a player name instead of id?

[@ararashi8967]

Someone can help me ? , im trying to put my own characters , and to spawn them in the next scene , some tips to do it ? without crying cuz 79 code errors ?

[@begnaf]

Could you make video about spawn points?

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

Spawn points will definitely be covered at some point when we make some "actual gameplay"

[@ronwelch749]

The game I'm making requires a pool of say 6 player characters. Then when a player chooses one of these, then that character becomes unavailable to the other players. How I can implement this? Thanks. :)

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

I'll cover that in next week's tutorial when I add the ability to "lock in". So as soon as a character is locked in, no one else can lock in the same character

[@ararashi8967]

Bro and what i need to do if i want to spawn the character ? im so stressed of trying it to function , can u give me an example of the spawn system in a different scene called Map1?

[@ViktorTCG]

Hello, I would do a card game and I was thinking about to use this template to update the player's UI everytime when they draw and play a card, what do you think about it?

[@jadeainsworth5937]

im getting this weird issue where the first of the character selection buttons is being spawned, but non of it's values are being set: IE the character scriptable object it holds, or the CharacterSelectDisplay scene reference.

[@jadeainsworth5937]

nvm I got it: for any one else. After I instantiated the prefab, I was calling .SetCharacter() on the prefab its self, not the instance. thats why.

[@mtarikan]

I followed all the steps carefully but I can't see my character buttons and I couldn't see CharacterSelectButton in your Hierarchy. Where they should be put?

[@zach_stutsman]

Im having the same issue

[@loganlane7833]

if you watched the intro video and you are missign something you need to instal a packages: services.lobby services.matchmaker services.multiplay services.relay

[@rdnaidra7280]

I apologize if my word will hurt you, I can make the game after following this. I still don't understand what for what. It would be better if you show me the result for What I coded here. but Thank you for sharing

[@littledemo3605]

please make something like this with fishnet

[@ewaldschulte6529]

Don't getg me wrong, I am thankful for your tutorials asnd your work, but the trouble setting up the project to start with (I'm not talking about the multiplayer template you mentioned - I created that, but that's just half of the story, since you completely chasnged the gameplay scene and just rushed through it in a few secs) is a really unnecessary downer :( I understand that you don't want to waste time with it - me neither, since that's not wshere the focus is here - but why not sharing the project at the beginning of this tutorial and one in its final state? So that we can simply start off together? It could be so easy....

[@ewaldschulte6529]

The Gameplay scene on GitHub looks totally different than what you are showing at the beginning so it's kind of useless for the start. It's a shame when such high quality content is "shadowed" by annoying drawbacks like this :(

[@fuwafuwa-zy4yg]

Is there a reason for using -1 instead of null ?

[@DapperDinoCodingTutorials]

Since we're working with an integer which is a value type not a reference type, we can't use null. The standard way of having an invalid id is to default it to -1

[@alkaline3mc]

It really doesn't help that you setup all your UI stuff off camera. Because when you get to the end and need to be associating all those scripts with all those components there isn't a clear link that has been established regarding what subcomponents of what prefabs consist of.