Configuration and Tools
Information about FishNet's additional configuration and editor tools.
FishNet comes with some useful settings and editor tools to be used with it; these can be accessed through the (Tools → Fish-Networking) toolbar menu.
Beta
The settings here will vary depending on your FishNet version and will enable you to activate and deactivate the latest beta features. This can be helpful if you want to stay with the most tested code for you project or if alternatively if you want to try out features that are coming out soon.
Utility
Quality of Life Attributes
With this option you will be able to disable and enable certain attributes FishNet uses. It's not recommended to use this unless a developer or community helper advises you do so for debugging purposes.
Upgrading > From Mirror
When converting a project from Mirror Networking, it can be helpful to use these tools.
Replace Components
This tool helps you replace common Mirror components with what FishNet may use instead.
Remove Defines
This tool removes the many scripting defines that Mirror includes in your Unity project.
Refresh Default Prefabs
This option will cause FishNet's Default Prefab Objects tool to be refreshed by searching your project and keeping track of the Network Object Prefabs within it. This is done automatically for you, but you may want to trigger it if you start seeing the wrong prefabs being spawned in a client build or editor.
Reserialize NetworkObjects
This tool allows you to reserialize prefabs and scenes. Most often you will use this if you get an error message by FishNet telling you to do so. It can also help you if you are running into errors reporting missing sceneids.
Configuration
The FishNet configuration (available in the Project Settings) has options for FishNet Pro's Code Stripping feature as well as the Prefab Objects Generator and NetworkBehaviour Template.
Code Stripping
FishNet Pro allows you to strip server-only code from , this includes the code inside ServerRpcs, Server marked methods, and server specific callbacks such as OnStartServer and OnSpawnServer. You can use one of the two available methods for this, either redirection or emptying.
New NetworkBehaviour Template
This allows you to customize the NetworkBehaviour asset template as well as choose a new location for it. If you want to create a NetworkBehaviour using this template, simply go to Assets → FishNet → NetworkBehaviour Script.
Prefab Objects Generator
The Prefab Objects Generator is used by the Default Prefab Objects search your project and keep track of the Network Object Prefabs within it. You can enable and disable it as well as enable and disable its logging.
The Full Rebuild option will tell FishNet to search all prefabs instead of just ones that were recently modified.
Spawnable Only instructs the generator to only find NetworkObject prefabs that have IsSpawnable enabled.
The Default Prefab Objects Path option allows you to change the default path of the asset in your Unity project.
And finally you can choose which folders to exclude or include when it searches for network prefabs.
Getting Started
The getting started option will show FishNet's Getting Started menu, giving you quick access to relevant FishNet links, including the Documentation, Discord, GitHub, and more.
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