How to distribute data between Client <---> Server and different resources?

[Anti11]

Hi everyone, I hope this thread will generate a lot of participation.

I am currently working on a big project and I keep reaching the point where I realize that my distribution of information (Client ↔ Server and between various resources) is not optimal.

Currently, I always request data from the server via the client (NETEVENT) and then send the data from the server (also NETEVENT) to the client. From here, I transfer the data to the other resources using export functions.

It works – but it makes everything a bit confusing.

Is there a best practice for this? How do you do it? How do you keep track and avoid confusing yourself?

Feel free to share your experiences!

[Kiminaze]

You are basically already doing the right thing. Events are the way to go for client ↔ server communication. And inter resource communication happens through events or exports.

If you want to simply sync values between client/server including attaching those values to entities, you can use state bags as well:

How to use State Bags

Please read the docs before reading this guide. Disclaimer: Entity state bags are a OneSync feature, if you do not have OneSync they will not work. With the addition of Entity State Bags back in v2843, there’s now a better way to sync data across multiple players. Previously the way to do this was to use Decors, but it wasn’t able to be accessed/modified on the server. Replication State bags will only replicate to every player when set to replicate. Only the owning player of an entity can rep…

[Anti11]

Thanks - i will take a look!