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MultiplayerSpawner

Inherits: Node < Object

Automatically replicates spawnable nodes from the authority to other multiplayer peers.

Description

Spawnable scenes can be configured in the editor or through code (see add_spawnable_scene).

Also supports custom node spawns through spawn, calling spawn_function on all peers.

Internally, MultiplayerSpawner uses MultiplayerAPI.object_configuration_add to notify spawns passing the spawned node as the object and itself as the configuration, and MultiplayerAPI.object_configuration_remove to notify despawns in a similar way.

Properties

Callable

spawn_function

int

spawn_limit

0

NodePath

spawn_path

NodePath("")

Methods

void

add_spawnable_scene(path: String)

void

clear_spawnable_scenes()

String

get_spawnable_scene(index: int) const

int

get_spawnable_scene_count() const

Node

spawn(data: Variant = null)

Signals

despawned(node: Node) 🔗

Emitted when a spawnable scene or custom spawn was despawned by the multiplayer authority. Only called on puppets.

spawned(node: Node) 🔗

Emitted when a spawnable scene or custom spawn was spawned by the multiplayer authority. Only called on puppets.

Property Descriptions

Callable spawn_function 🔗

Method called on all peers when a custom spawn is requested by the authority. Will receive the data parameter, and should return a Node that is not in the scene tree.

Note: The returned node should not be added to the scene with Node.add_child. This is done automatically.

int spawn_limit = 0 🔗

  • void set_spawn_limit(value: int)

  • int get_spawn_limit()

Maximum number of nodes allowed to be spawned by this spawner. Includes both spawnable scenes and custom spawns.

When set to 0 (the default), there is no limit.

NodePath spawn_path = NodePath("") 🔗

Path to the spawn root. Spawnable scenes that are added as direct children are replicated to other peers.

Method Descriptions

void add_spawnable_scene(path: String) 🔗

Adds a scene path to spawnable scenes, making it automatically replicated from the multiplayer authority to other peers when added as children of the node pointed by spawn_path.

void clear_spawnable_scenes() 🔗

Clears all spawnable scenes. Does not despawn existing instances on remote peers.

String get_spawnable_scene(index: int) const 🔗

Returns the spawnable scene path by index.

int get_spawnable_scene_count() const 🔗

Returns the count of spawnable scene paths.

Node spawn(data: Variant = null) 🔗

Requests a custom spawn, with data passed to spawn_function on all peers. Returns the locally spawned node instance already inside the scene tree, and added as a child of the node pointed by spawn_path.

Note: Spawnable scenes are spawned automatically. spawn is only needed for custom spawns.