Advanced Sessions Plugin

[Zaggoth]

Kind of hard to say, I don't know what changes you have made over the base engine, stock engine listen servers are advertising fine...

LAN is a whole other beast as it uses a LAN Beacon, its not really relatable.

We're using a custom Steam Bridge (we call it) that we wrote, not the AdvancedSessionsSteam stuff. Is there a particular change that was made to the Steam side of things between 4.18 and 4.21? Perhaps we need to modify our custom Steam Bridge. Did you modify anything noteworthy in regards to server advertisement via Steam, from 4.18 to 4.21 versions of the AdvancedSessions plugin?

My apologies if this is hard to work with, I'm kinda stabbing in the dark right now.

[mordentral]

We're using a custom Steam Bridge (we call it) that we wrote, not the AdvancedSessionsSteam stuff. Is there a particular change that was made to the Steam side of things between 4.18 and 4.21? Perhaps we need to modify our custom Steam Bridge. Did you modify anything noteworthy in regards to server advertisement via Steam, from 4.18 to 4.21 versions of the AdvancedSessions plugin?

My apologies if this is hard to work with, I'm kinda stabbing in the dark right now.

No I didn't make any significant changes, the subsystem interface has been mostly static.

[Zaggoth]

No I didn't make any significant changes, the subsystem interface has been mostly static.

Roger that, just trying to isolate the issue. I think I've isolated it to our custom engine changes. I went back to using the plugin completely stock and I'm still not getting server advertisement. Thanks for the replies - and great work on the plugin!

[SND R Keene]

Settings.BuildUniqueId = GetBuildUniqueId();
Needed at line 58 in AdvancedSessions\Source\AdvancedSessions\Private\CreateSessionCallbackProxyAdvanced.cpp

[theone866]

Hello,

Advanced Sessions Plugin have "Get Steam Friend Game Played" node, but this return only App ID (int).
How I can get the game name (string)?

Thanks!

[PR0_R0K]

When we can get 4.21.2 version?

[mordentral]

Settings.BuildUniqueId = GetBuildUniqueId();
Needed at line 58 in AdvancedSessions\Source\AdvancedSessions\Private\CreateSessionCallbackProxyAdvanced.cpp

That shouldn't be required.

bool FOnlineSessionSteam::CreateSession(int32 HostingPlayerNum, FName SessionName, const FOnlineSessionSettings& NewSessionSettings)
{
  *Snip*

        // Unique identifier of this build for compatibility
        Session->SessionSettings.BuildUniqueId = GetBuildUniqueId();

The create session functions full that in themselves.
Unless you have a custom subsystem that does not and need it? In that case it would be worth adding.

[mordentral]

Hello,

Advanced Sessions Plugin have "Get Steam Friend Game Played" node, but this return only App ID (int).
How I can get the game name (string)?

Thanks!

so I
You can to query the app list in the web api for that. It was outside of my intended scope for this plugin however I haven't seen any alternatives pop up so I may get around to it at some point.

[MalSaucyShip]

Hi I am having an issue with a server browser I made, it works in the editor but it does not work when I package the project.

[mordentral]

Hi I am having an issue with a server browser I made, it works in the editor but it does not work when I package the project.

Are you packaging in shipping for steam? You need to provide an app_id.txt file if so, or test with a development build.

[MalSaucyShip]

Are you packaging in shipping for steam? You need to provide an app_id.txt file if so, or test with a development build.

I am testing it with a development build, also what do you mean by shipping for steam

[tahirsle]

Currently my setup is this:

Game.Build.cs

using UnrealBuildTool;
using System.Collections.Generic;

[SupportedPlatforms(UnrealPlatformClass.Server)]
public class PewPewServerTarget : TargetRules
{
public PewPewServerTarget(TargetInfo Target) : base(Target)
{
Type = TargetType.Server;
ExtraModuleNames.AddRange( new string[] { "PewPew" } );
}
}

ModuleRule

using UnrealBuildTool;

public class PewPew : ModuleRules
{
public PewPew(ReadOnlyTargetRules Target) : base(Target)
{
PCHUsage = PCHUsageMode.UseExplicitOrSharedPCHs;

PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] { "Core", "CoreUObject", "Engine", "InputCore", "OnlineSubsystem", "OnlineSubsystemUtils" });

PrivateDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] { });

DynamicallyLoadedModuleNames.Add("OnlineSubsystemSteam");

// Uncomment if you are using Slate UI
// PrivateDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] { "Slate", "SlateCore" });

// Uncomment if you are using online features
PrivateDependencyModuleNames.Add("OnlineSubsystem");

// To include OnlineSubsystemSteam, add it to the plugins section in your uproject file with the Enabled attribute set to true
}
}

DefaultEngine.ini

[/Script/Engine.GameEngine]
+NetDriverDefinitions=(DefName="GameNetDriver",DriverClassName="OnlineSubsystemSteam.SteamNetDriver",DriverClassNameFallback="OnlineSubsystemUtils.IpNetDriver")

[OnlineSubsystem]
DefaultPlatformService=Steam


[OnlineSubsystemSteam]
bEnabled=true
SteamDevAppId=480
SteamAppId=480
GameServerQueryPort=27015

1. When i'm building dedicated server from project launcher, im getting warning Steam API is disabled! so when i change bEnabled = false, i don't get this warning anymore. So what is properly to do when building dedicated server? So, do i need to build dedicated server from launcher, or from source. Because i have started unreal editor from Visual Studio (development_editor).

2. This is how i create advanced session on dedicated server, and before first string im asking is dedicated server? so if true, im creating session. But OnSuccess or On Failure is never print string.

3. When i'm finding session to join, i can join from client, but i can't see my server in steam list of server, why?


Thanks!

[MalSaucyShip]

I literally did everything I am supposed to and I cant join games or am able to find them when I package my project its really weird since i can in the PIE if anyone is able to help me pm me or something on discord Luke #6261

[mordentral]

I literally did everything I am supposed to and I cant join games or am able to find them when I package my project its really weird since i can in the PIE if anyone is able to help me pm me or something on discord Luke #6261

PIE doesn't enable steam.... You have to run stand alone to actually run steam while in the editor.

[MalSaucyShip]

PIE doesn't enable steam.... You have to run stand alone to actually run steam while in the editor.

yeah but thats the thing that I do not understand it works in there but not in standalone or in a packaged project, like LAN doesnt even work in standalone