Automatic Member Replication

Automatic Member Replication

Thanks to C#'s reflection, MDReplicated is able to detect if a value has changed and call Rset for you automatically.

To use it, mark your Node's field or property with the [MDReplicated] attribute. You can also set one of Godot's RPCModes (Master, Puppet, Remote, etc), but if you don't MDReplicator will automatically set it to Puppet for you.

By default, it uses reliable replication, but you can change that by using [MDReplicated(MDReliablity.Unreliable)], which is recommended if the value changes very frequently.

By default, only the network master for the node will send out updated values, unless if the member is marked with [Master], in which case the puppets will send values - with more than 1 puppet, this will lead to some unnecessary Rset calls.

When a new player connects, they will receive [MDReplicated] values a short time after connect (about 1 second).

If you wish to be notified on the client when a replicated value changes, use a custom property setter:

    float _BarrelRotation = 0;
    [MDReplicated]
    float BarrelRotation
    {
        get { return _BarrelRotation; }
        set
        {
            _BarrelRotation = value;
            Barrel.Rotation = value;
        }
    }

See the Automatic Registration section for information on how these are populated and how you can configure that.

Note: Changes in Collection types (Array, Dictionary) are currently undetected. You can mark them [MDReplicated(RepType: MDReplicatedType.JoinInProgress)] instead and call Rset when you make changes. This issue is tracking a solution to this.