Specifiy port for listen server

[Taces]

Hey,

I'm feeling that I read this questions (and answeres for it) multiple times here in the forums and on AnswereHub but after an hour of googling I still haven't found a working solution.
The question is actually pretty simple: Is it possible to specify a custom port for a listen server or is it damned to be listening on port 7777 or whatever is set in BaseEngine.ini?
I know that we can edit that file to change the default port, but what I have is a main menu where you can create multiple worlds and specify a port for that world, so that when you open the level it's opened as a listen server with the specified port.
Using "?listen?port=xxxx" doesn't work, it will still be opened on port 7777. Maybe I'm not seeing something here as it actually seems to be a pretty easy and common task to do to me.

Thanks in advance,
Taces

[IanBreeg]

You can always override this port in your DefaultEngine.ini config file.

[Taces]

First, thanks for your answer, but it seems that this is not possible dynamically at runtime. As stated in the first sentence here https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest...les/index.html, "Configuration files can be used to set values for properties that will be initialized when the project is loaded."

I still tried to change the Port in DefaultEngine.ini manually after the project was open in the edior, but my changes only had an affect as I restarted the editor.

[AdeptStrain]

It should be parsing out the listen port at run-time based on the URL you give it. How are you spawning these worlds? Can you put a break point in UWorld::Listen(FURL& inURL) and watch to see where it's pulling the port from?

[Taces]

I'm using the OpenLevel Blueprint with the ?listen and ?port options. Might this happen, because I'm testing it in editor as a listen server, so that when I press "Play" the listen server is started and then when I travel with the server to the next world with these options just get ignored as the instance in fact already is a listen server?

As far as I could trace the FURL back it is created in UnrealEngine.cpp line 8276 in UEngine::TickWorldTravel with "FURL(&Context.LastURL,*NextURL,(ETravelType)Context.World()->NextTravelType)". LastURLs port is set to 1706, which in this case was the port I specified in DefaultEngine.ini, hence my suggestion above.

[AdeptStrain]

I think that's likely. If you look in UnrealEngine.cpp and just search for TEXT("Listen") there are a number of cases where the listen option is stripped out when connecting to a local map to avoid crashing. You could place some break points there and see if that logic is getting hit and removing your listen info.

[舒望星]

"path\UE4Editor.exe" "path\your project name.uproject" /Game/your map path/your map name -server - log -port=xxxx

like this:

"C:\UnrealEngine_4.20\Engine\Binaries\Win64\UE4Editor.exe" "C:\Project\Project.uproject" /Game/Maps/TestMap -server -log -port=9999