How do I sync a text in multiplayer?

I have a login screen where you type in your username and that stuff. That works when you (host or peer) join the game but the other players doesn't see what the name is. It doesn't synchronize to the peers. I have it as a instance variable on my hosts character but the name-text-object just shows as default to peers, I'm guessing I need to synch the text-instance-variable but that doesn't seem to work.

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Do you mean the Multiplayer.MyAlias ?

LittleStain yeah, I set a instance variable to MyAlias when you login, but the text reverts to default for the other peers when they join. Will upload a .capx in a minute

LittleStain https://www.dropbox.com/s/is0phznl5qyq5 ... .capx?dl=0

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If you use syncronised variables, only numbers are allowed.

lennaert Do you know any way to sync it with a string? Read something about using the host broadcast message but that seems a bit too advanced for it

lennaert maybe it's not even necessary to sync the text? The position is synced and works but it's the name of the host-player that I want it to show up as

lennaert maybe it's not even necessary to sync the text? The position is synced and works but it's the name of the host-player that I want it to show up as

Just refer to the Multiplayer.PeerAliasFromID(peerobject.PeerID)

lennaert not sure how I'm supposed to do that, could you take a look at my .capx and show me a example??

You actually need to set a player name .... currently in your capx it's playername = ""

And you also login with that... not sure how that pans out, but it would be wiser to actually set a name

lennaert there's a login screen in that capx, that gets the text you type in and sets PlayerName to it in uppercase. and you do login with PlayerName as alias xd

Ahh, sorry yes, I had started your app without the login screen.

I've gone over your events, and your not settings any peer IDs for objects, which you should.

Take a look at the template examples, and make sure that in your app the host and newly connected peers get a PeerID.

For the host side:

On peer connected: create peerobject, set peerobject.peerID to multiplayer.PeerID

For the peer Side:

On peerobject created, set peerobject.PeerID to multiplayer.PeerID

Then, each player/peer or host has peerobjects with their own PeerID's, which you can use as reference, for Multiplayer.PeerAliasFromID(peerobject.peerid)