Ownership

Ownership is relating to the relation between a player and a Network Identity. Upon spawning a new Network Identity, some level of ownership exists, whether that'd be no owner meaning the server has full control, or a player/client can be the owner.

Being the owner of a Network Identity, gives you different levels of authorization, depending on the Network Rules of the network manager. Keep in mind that being the owner of a network identity, doesn't mean you are directly the owner of every identity on the object. This is a setting that is specific per network identity.

You can easily change ownership on your Network Identity by calling the GiveOwnership method, and feeding it the PlayerID to be the new owner

networkIdentity.GiveOwnership(newOwnerPlayerId);

You can easily check for ownership by simply getting the owner. Be mindful that the owner and often other PlayerID references are nullable, meaning you should check whether they have a value or not.

if(owner.HasValue)
{
    //This object has an owner
    Debug.Log($"Owner of the object is: {owner.Value}");
}
else
{
    //This object has no owner
}

//You  can also easily check if you are the owner
if(isOwner) 
{
    //If we are here, we are the owner of the object
}

An easy way to check whether you have "control" of the object, meaning one of the two statements below is true: - There is an owner and I am the owner - There is no owner and I am the server Is to use the IsController bool.

if(IsController)
{
    //We are either the owner, or there is no owner and we're the server
    
}
else
{
    //We are not in control of this object
}