Normal•2y ago

Disabling object with realtime view?

I see you aren't supposed to start with a disabled view but what about disabling and reenabling a realtime view during runtime after that?

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eh ok I found the issue it was getting disabled elsewhere. So I guess it's fine to enable and disable them as long as it's after they are registered.

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kapa.ai•4/5/24, 4:22 AM

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kapa.ai•4/5/24, 4:23 AM

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The documentation does not explicitly mention the ability to disable and re-enable a RealtimeView during runtime. However, it does state that if RealtimeViews are disabled, they will not register with Realtime in , and Realtime will neither initialize them nor connect them to the datastore.

Instead of disabling the RealtimeView, you can use a custom RealtimeComponent to enable/disable child game objects, scripts, or renderers directly. This approach allows you to control the active state of specific elements without affecting the RealtimeView's connection to the datastore.

For more information, please refer to the documentation (https://normcore.io/documentation/realtime/common-questions#can-i-disable-realtimeview).
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kapa.ai•4/5/24, 4:23 AM

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cryptomaxOP•4/5/24, 4:23 AM

yeah the documentation doesnt' cover this

Ccryptomax I see you aren't supposed to start with a disabled view but what about disabling...

Cam•4/5/24, 4:24 AM

AFAIK this should be okay (?) as it's already registered to the realtime / datastore

cryptomaxOP•4/5/24, 4:30 AM

well I have an object with transform and view, components and RB. I'm enabling and disabling during runtime using a RT component to flip it on and off and it is disabling all children even though i'm just doing a ToggleGameObject.SetActive
on reenable after disabling, the children are all off (it didn't maintain their active state) so I wondered if it's somethign to do with the realtime

Cam•4/5/24, 4:31 AM

children are off in which way? like a disabled gameobject

cryptomaxOP•4/5/24, 4:31 AM

yeah like the parent is getting turned on but with all it's children off, even though they were all active when it was disabled

Cam•4/5/24, 4:32 AM

sounds like a bug in code somewhere, realtimeview never touches gameobject active state I don't believe

Cam•4/5/24, 4:32 AM

if you recursively disabled all objects, then enabling the parent object would still have all the children disabled

cryptomaxOP•4/5/24, 4:34 AM

eh yeah i'm not just a single object ref and toggling it's active state based on a component int but I guess I gotta keep poking around as to why the children are getting disabled

Cam•4/5/24, 4:34 AM

what is ToggleGameObject?

cryptomaxOP•4/5/24, 4:35 AM

just the GO Ref

Cam•4/5/24, 4:35 AM

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cryptomax•4/5/24, 4:40 AM

eh ok I found the issue it was getting disabled elsewhere. So I guess it's fine to enable and disable them as long as it's after they are registered.

Cam•4/5/24, 4:41 AM

I believe so? Untested and unsure, but at least fundamentally it makes sense since it's registered, has callbacks / events assigned, and what not

Cam•4/5/24, 4:41 AM

Data I believe can still be sent and received since it's not run on the update loop

cryptomaxOP•4/5/24, 4:46 AM

it turns on and off locally, I guess your right I didnt' actually make sure the object was working for other clients

cryptomaxOP•4/5/24, 4:53 AM

thanks