Add Support for Nested NetworkObjects in Prefabs #2637
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stat:awaiting triage
Status - Awaiting triage from the Netcode team.
type:feature
New feature, request or improvement
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
One major pain point of using Unity Netcode for GameObjects (as well as many other networking solutions) is the lack of support for spawning nested NetworkObjects. Currently, if you try to spawn a prefab with nested NetworkObjects, the primary NetworkObject will be networked, while all the child NetworkObjects will not.
As an example, imagine that you are trying to spawn a boat with cannons that each player can move and shoot. In this scenario, it would make sense that (1) cannons should be parented to the boat and (2) any player should be able to take ownership of a cannon (separate of the boat) when they go to move/shoot it. This means that both the boat and the cannons would need to be NetworkObjects. However, because of this limitation, you would not be able to make one boat prefab with the cannons on it.
Describe the solution you'd like
Ideally, when a prefab with nested NetworkObjects is spawned, it should automatically network any child network objects.
Describe alternatives you've considered
You can work around the issues with nested NetworkObjects, but it requires designing your prefabs/scripts in less intuitive ways.
For instance, in the boat example I mentioned earlier, you could create cannon spawners that spawn the cannons separately when the boat is spawned. However, this has its own issues. Primarily:
There are other solutions to these types of problems, but they are generally more difficult to implement and/or encourage poor design.
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