Struct CharacterCastBroadcast

Namespace

FishMMO.Shared

Assembly

FishMMO.Shared.dll

Server → observers. One character started or stopped an activation.

public struct CharacterCastBroadcast : IBroadcast

Implements

IBroadcast

Inherited Members

ValueType.Equals(object)

ValueType.GetHashCode()

ValueType.ToString()

object.Equals(object, object)

object.GetType()

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

Remarks

What observers could see before this. Only the ability OBJECT: a projectile appeared and flew, reproduced from AbilityActivatedBroadcast. An ability that spawns no world object — a self-buff, a pet summon, anything without an object prefab — told observers nothing at all, and a consumable told them nothing ever. There was no way to look at another character and see that it was doing something.

This is sent from the activation state machine rather than from the spawn path, which is what makes it cover every activation there is, object or no object, ability or consumable.

Only what the receiver cannot already know. Duration and ability type are NOT sent: both live on the template, templates are immutable and loaded identically on every peer, and the receiver resolves the ability from the caster's own KnownAbilities. Sending them would be paying, per cast per observer, for two numbers already in memory. An observer-side animation hook reads the type from the same template, so adding one later still does not change this message.

And two shapes, named by the first byte. A stop carries neither the tick nor the consumable flag, because its handler reads neither — see CharacterCastBroadcastSerializer, which lives beside the other two observer formats rather than here.

Fields

CasterObjectID

The casting character's network object id.

public int CasterObjectID

Field Value

int

IsConsumable

True when this is an item being used rather than an ability.

public bool IsConsumable

Field Value

bool

ReferenceID

The ability INSTANCE id, or the item template id when IsConsumable.

public long ReferenceID

Field Value

long

Remarks

An instance id rather than a template id, for the same reason AbilityActivatedBroadcast carries one: an observer holds the caster's KnownAbilities — filled by the spawn payload and kept current by AbilityLearnedObserverBroadcast — so it can resolve the instance and name the crafted ability the player actually built, rather than the base template it was built from. TryGetAbilityForVisuals is the same lookup the activation handler uses.

ServerTick

The server tick the activation started on.

public uint ServerTick

Field Value

uint

Remarks

The message spends a network delay in flight, during which the cast has been running. The receiver measures that delay from this and starts the bar partway, rather than restarting it — which would leave every observed cast finishing late by one trip.

Started

True when the activation began; false when it ended, however it ended.

public bool Started

Field Value

bool