Situation:

I am currently dealing with a network game where the player has several statistics like how many bombs he still has, how many lives, etc. Can I synchronize this complete 'Player' Component with all its variables via State Synchronisation?

Research:

The documentation seems to be unclear on this. From http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Components/net-StateSynchronization.html

Unity can synchronize Transform, Animation, Rigidbody and MonoBehaviour components.

• Transforms are serialized by storing position, rotation and scale. Parenting information is not transferred over the network.

• Animation serializes each running animation state, that is the time, weight, speed and enabled properties.

• Rigidbody serializes position, rotation, velocity and angular velocity.

• Scripts (MonoBehaviours) call the function OnSerializeNetworkView().

However, BitStream.Serialize(), used within OnSerializeNetworkView(BitStream stream, NetworkMessageInfo info), only handles a certain amount of datatypes (int, string, Vector3 etc).

Question:

Am I allowed to just grab a component and synchronize this AS A WHOLE? (so in my case ALL the public vars hanging within my 'Player' Component)

If not, how do I utilize OnSerializeNetworkView() in such a way that if I send 'available bombs' for instance from the server, the client KNOWS it's receiving 'available bombs' and not 'number of lives' for instance?

Thanks in advance :)