Advanced Sessions Plugin

[Nyhaalm]

oh, sorry, my mistake. i'm using the 4.8 Branch, not the release branch,

[Parvan]

Wow man, this is amazing! I don't check the forums for a few weeks and look what happens... Thanks for sharing!

[mordentral]

oh, sorry, my mistake. i'm using the 4.8 Branch, not the release branch,

Yeah I won't be updating it to 4.8 until it release or just before it, from the state of 4.7 it is going to undergo a lot of changes in the new version. The commit that changed delegates in 4.8 mentions something about making it compatible for Fortnite so might be more changes inc.

The new delegate function parameters are:

virtual void OnSessionUserInviteAccepted(const bool bWasSuccess, const int32 ControllerId, TSharedPtr< FUniqueNetId > UserId, const FOnlineSessionSearchResult & InviteResult)

[Nyhaalm]

Yeah I won't be updating it to 4.8 until it release or just before it, from the state of 4.7 it is going to undergo a lot of changes in the new version. The commit that changed delegates in 4.8 mentions something about making it compatible for Fortnite so might be more changes inc.

The new delegate function parameters are:

virtual void OnSessionUserInviteAccepted(const bool bWasSuccess, const int32 ControllerId, TSharedPtr< FUniqueNetId > UserId, const FOnlineSessionSearchResult & InviteResult)

I will try to make it work for 4.8.
Would it be possible for you to put the plugin source on Github?, then maybe i can put my changes on a 4.8 branch.

[mordentral]

I'll probably do it today over lunch, its about a 10 minute change and I went back and looked at the last commit and it isn't actually very likely that they are changing it any more on 4.8.


*Edit* 4.8 version is up, BP output on the OnSessionInviteAccepted BP Event changed as the delegate passes the inviting UniqueNetId now in 4.8 and that seemed useful to have.

[Nyhaalm]

Thank you so much for being so fast at updating this.

[Nobody]

Hey, thanks again for this awesome plugin. I managed to get a Server Broswer, hosting, Joining, quick play, etc. to my game but there are still some questions I got where I don't know how to manage this.

Currently everyone joins the Lobby of some Hosted Session, The Host decides to Start the game and everyone starts playing. But as soon as the game starts I want the Session not to be visible for anyone searching for a new game. How is this possible?
As far as I have seen I can't change Session Properties while the Session is running.

[mordentral]

Hey, thanks again for this awesome plugin. I managed to get a Server Broswer, hosting, Joining, quick play, etc. to my game but there are still some questions I got where I don't know how to manage this.

Currently everyone joins the Lobby of some Hosted Session, The Host decides to Start the game and everyone starts playing. But as soon as the game starts I want the Session not to be visible for anyone searching for a new game. How is this possible?
As far as I have seen I can't change Session Properties while the Session is running.

Whoops! I had that one being worked on and totally forgot about it.


The function below handles that, I'll work it in tomorrow and update the plugin. I had planned to have it in already but I guess it got buried in the friends interface work.

virtual bool UpdateSession(FName SessionName, FOnlineSessionSettings& UpdatedSessionSettings, bool bShouldRefreshOnlineData = true) = 0;

[Nobody]

Whoops! I had that one being worked on and totally forgot about it.


The function below handles that, I'll work it in tomorrow and update the plugin. I had planned to have it in already but I guess it got buried in the friends interface work.

virtual bool UpdateSession(FName SessionName, FOnlineSessionSettings& UpdatedSessionSettings, bool bShouldRefreshOnlineData = true) = 0;

Awesome! Thanks a lot

[mordentral]

The UpdateSession function is added into both of the new downloads.

[Nobody]

The UpdateSession function is added into both of the new downloads.

Perfect

[Nobody]

Hmm not quite sure but there might be a Problem with the new node.



Build this up for testing purpose, but all is does is print "Session did maybe something", but no Success or Failure

[mordentral]

Make sure you actually hosted a session first, also it appears that play in editor window doesn't register the session with the backend. If you run as a standalone window it should work fine.

I did add a new check to throw OnFailure if the number of registered sessions is zero. I'll upload that sometime today.


*Edit* Uploaded

[Nobody]

Ah okay, yeah the Problem was relating to the Editor Window.

Ist the 4.8 version for the preview or have you already updated it to the full release? When I try to convert my Project with the 4.8 Version of this Plugin from my 4.7 Version I get an Error.

[22/23] Link UE4Editor-AdvancedSessions.dll
   Creating library C:\Users\XXX\Documents\Unreal Projects\ProjectX\Plugins\AdvancedSessions\Intermediate/Build/Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UE4Editor-AdvancedSessions.lib and object C:\Users\XXX\Documents\Unreal Projects\ProjectX\Plugins\AdvancedSessions\Intermediate/Build/Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UE4Editor-AdvancedSessions.exp
-------- End Detailed Actions Stats -----------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: UBT ERROR: Failed to produce item: C:\Users\XXX\Documents\Unreal Projects\ProjectX\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UE4Editor-ProjectX.exp
Total build time: 100,61 seconds

Not really a programmer so I have no idea if its a Problem on my side or the plugins side.

[mordentral]

I just copied my 4.8 version over to a project I converted from 4.7 today and it worked right away. Delete the intermediate and binary folders in the plugin folder and try again.