Making first person character's body only visible for other players

Development Character & Animation
, , , ,
1

I’m sure there is probably a very easy solution for this. However, I’ve been googling a lot and can’t find any information on how to do this.

So I am making a first person shooter game and I want it to work for online multiplayer and split screen. The first person character is a very basic character with only arms visible to the player. Like the character you get in the first person template. However, I want the other players to be able to to see a full body mesh. How can I make the body mesh only visible to other characters and the arm mesh only visible to the owning character?

This should be a very common thing in first person shooters right? I don’t understand why I can’t find out how to do this. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

2

I’d look up network replication. It’ll help you figure out how to implement commands depending on whether they are the owning client or not.

3

Well, the problem is that this needs to work in split screen mode.