How to Connect and Instantiate your Player

Connect to photon is really simple, here is a quick guide of how to connect, create a room and finally instantiate a character:

1. Connect to Photon

First create a trigger with On Start igniter, after you create the trigger go ahead create actions. Add a Photon Connect action, you can leave parameters as they are.

You must be connected to the Photon Service before trying to call any action except Offline Mode.

2. Create or Join a Room

Create another trigger with On Connection Events set the event type to On Connected To Master.

When photon is connected this event is going to be called. Let's add Join Or Create Action this will join a room o create if it doesn't exists.

You are only allowed to call any join or create room action when you are connected to the Master Server.

3. On Joined Room

We want to instantiate our player once we join room so let's add a On Photon Event trigger and set the event type to On Joined Room. Within the On Joined Room event now add Photon Instantiate action and select or assign your Character Prefab.

Don't know which method to use? You can see more in Instantiation Options

(On this example we use a Player prefab that was previously added to Prefabs list in Photon Preferences)

Player prefab can't be present on the scene they need to be Instantiated with the Photon Instantiate action

Pro Tip: You can enable your player Camera after player is instantiated.

4. (Optional) Connection Status

You might want to have some feedback.

Let's add a text component to get the Photon Status but first we need the event. We can store the status/state in a local or global variable to later use this.

Finally add the text action and to show what we saved in a local variable.

5. Voila. This is how it should look.