Custom Component Actions

Even though coherence provides Component Actions out of the box for various component, you can implement your own Component Actions in order to give designers on the team full authoring power on network entities, directly from within the Configure window UI.

Creating a new one is simply done by extending the ComponentAction abstract class:

ComponentAction.cs

using UnityEngine;

[System.Serializable]
public abstract class ComponentAction
{
    [SerializeField] internal Component component;
    public Component Component => component;

    public virtual void OnAuthority() { }
    public virtual void OnRemote() { }
}

Your custom Component Action must implement the following methods:

• OnAuthority This method will be called when the object is spawned and you have authority over it.

• OnRemote This method will be called when a remote object is spawned and you do not have authority over it.

It will also require the ComponentAction class attribute, specifying the type of Component that you want the Action to work with, and the display name.

For example, here is the implementation of the Component Action that we use to disable Components on remote objects:

ComponentAction.cs

using Coherence.Toolkit;
using UnityEngine;

[ComponentAction(typeof(Behaviour), "Disable")]
public class DisableBehaviourComponentAction : ComponentAction
{
    public override void OnAuthority()
    {
        var b = Component as Behaviour;
        b.enabled = true;
    }

    public override void OnRemote()
    {
        var b = Component as Behaviour;
        b.enabled = false;
    }
}