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Getting Started

This document describes steps to creating a multiplayer game with Mirror. The process described here is a simplified, higher level version of the actual process for a real game; it doesn’t always work exactly like this, but it provides a basic recipe for the process.

Video Tutorials

Check out these awesome videos showing you how to get started with mirror.

Script Templates

  • Create new Network Behaviours and other common scripts faster

Network Manager Setup

  • Create a new Network Manager from the Assets > Create > Mirror menu.
  • Add a new game object to the Scene and rename it “NetworkManager”.
  • Add the newly created Network Manager component to the “NetworkManager” game object.
  • Add the NetworkManagerHUD component to the game object. This provides the default UI for managing the network game state.

Player Prefab

  • Find the Prefab for the player game object in the game, or create a Prefab from the player game object
  • Add the NetworkIdentity component to the player Prefab
  • Set the Player Prefab in the NetworkManager’s Spawn Info section to the player Prefab
  • Remove the player game object instance from the Scene if it exists in the Scene
See Player Objects for more information.

Player Movement

  • Add a NetworkTransform component to the player Prefab
  • Check the Client Authority checkbox on the component.
  • Update input and control scripts to respect isLocalPlayer
  • Override OnStartLocalPlayer to take control of the Main Camera in the scene for the player.
For example, this script only processes input for the local player:
using UnityEngine;
using Mirror;
public class Controls : NetworkBehaviour
{
void Update()
{
// exit from update if this is not the local player
if (!isLocalPlayer) return;
// handle player input for movement
}
}

Basic player game state

  • Make scripts that contain important data into Network Behaviours instead of MonoBehaviours
  • Make important member variables into SyncVars

Remote Actions

  • Make scripts that perform important actions into Network Behaviours instead of MonoBehaviours
  • Update functions that perform important player actions to be commands

Non-player GameObjects

Fix non-player prefabs such as enemies:
  • Add the NetworkIdentity component
  • Add the NetworkTransform component
  • Register spawnable Prefabs with the NetworkManager
  • Update scripts with game state and actions

Spawners

  • Potentially change spawner scripts to be NetworkBehaviours
  • Modify spawners to only run on the server (use isServer property or the OnStartServer() function)
  • Call NetworkServer.Spawn() for created game objects

Spawn positions for players

  • Add a new game object and place it at player’s start location
  • Add the NetworkStartPosition component to the new game object