Dynamic Prefabs with Tasharen

[Xi4]

Hello everybody,

I am currently working on a online racing game and I reached the point where I want to choose a solution for networking.
My most important question is, is Tasharen able to spawn a character with settings?
Like, I spawn a player, but he has (depending on ID saved) a different hat than others, or a different skin.

I hope someone can answer my question.

Greetz,
Xi4.

[MCoburn]

EDIT: I read 'character' as 'car'. Why the heck did I do that for?! 

Here's one way of doing it:

Spawn a prefab of a generic car, or all the cars and everything packed into one prefab. Have it under nested GameObjects, like:

1. DragCar
2. -- V12 SuperCharger
3. ---- Body
4. ---- Decals
5. -- V8 Turbo Diesel
6. ---- Body
7. ---- Decals
8. <etc>
9.  

Have a script attached to it that checks what the player settings are (ie. decals, Nitro, exhaust, paint job, etc) and enable/disable the child game objects depending on what the car has.
You might get a minor performance hit but since the script will kick in ASAP, the player shouldn't notice a big black box thing as the car is customized.

[ArenMook]

My most important question is, is Tasharen able to spawn a character with settings?

Sure. Pass custom parameters alongside your create call: http://www.tasharen.com/forum/index.php?topic=5416.0

[Xi4]

Thanks for your answers.
I'll use cars too, so your answer helped a lot.
There is no generic car since they're multiple types of cars available, but I guess I'll just make empty prefab and disabled all childs by default and only enable the one I need.