How to do Multiplayer when clients only replicate parts of server scene tree? (to save on compute)

[mrcdk]

@smorty

And rpc calls are a whole other story… They seem to always expect every client to have the same scene tree … which works great for basic games which work within a single scene on both server and client… but not as well, when the client is meant to only load a single scene at a time, like in my case.

There was a similar question a few days ago:

The right way to make a multiplayer game with a dedicated server in Godot.

Godot Version 4.5.1 Context I am trying to create an online card game. In my game, a player is supposed to know only their own cards, so I don’t want to pass any information about opponents’ cards to the clients. You may ask: why can’t a player’s client know the opponents’ cards? Couldn’t it just store them without displaying? The answer is simple: cheating. If the opponents’ cards are stored on a player’s computer in any way, there will be a possibility to extract that data and use it for an u…

Using that method you won’t be able to use a MultiplayerSpawner as the server will try to sync spawned nodes to all clients. I’ve not tried using the MultiplayerSynchronizer but it may have the same issues.