Logs and the need for exposed code

Mikachu_92 · July 17, 2015, 7:25pm

So today I attempted to try and push towards the first release of my mod for a RP server. The only things left were server logs and inventory by steamID.

Neither of these are possible with the current devkit.

I got this far with damage for PVP logs -

But there is no way to reference a players character name, steam name or steamID.

Please for the love of god let us see and use those things. They are SO important and will let SO many more mods exist.

Drathek · July 17, 2015, 7:30pm

See if you can find anything interesting to hook in to in the admin manager ui if you are interested in the logging it provides. As far as I understand it logs chat, but I haven’t messed around with it much to know what all it can do.

edit As for outputting logs, I don’t know for sure but why dont you just ensure Print to log is checked and then look at WindowsNoEditor/ProjectName/Saved/Logs (details here: A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki - Announcements and Releases - Unreal Engine Forums )

Mikachu_92 · July 17, 2015, 7:35pm

Sadly I have tried that as well and almost all it logs is hidden. The game clearly grabs the names of who killed who as it displays it everytime you are killed but there is no way for us modders to grab that info or especially to grab players SteamID which is the big issue I have

anonymous_user_10f0ff50 · July 17, 2015, 8:54pm

There is an amazing discussion about how to grab some information from the server itself HERE

It’s definitely above my level, but it might help you in what you are doing.

K4r3l01 · July 18, 2015, 11:09am

I’m also waiting for getting some information about player like steam name and steam id

Mikachu_92 · July 18, 2015, 12:00pm

Bumping for dev to see and respond

This is needed and should be super easy to do!

Mikachu_92 · July 19, 2015, 11:44am

buming again. Dev response is needed

Mikachu_92 · July 20, 2015, 10:00am

bump for dev

anonymous_user_cddb2c46 · July 21, 2015, 2:21am

If you are asking about normal UE4 logging that is disabled inside shipping builds. We probably won’t turn this one on anytime soon since it hurts performance and makes servers have to deal with some disk bloat. But even so this does not output things like “player x built y” or “x hit y for 10 damage” which sounds more like what you are wanting. Not really a built in log of gameplay actions on servers currently. But while normal log output is disabled writing to a file is not. Also the Print String node above with ‘print to log’ is writing to the normal UE4 log.

Have you tried looking at the PlayerState’s playername? The steam id I don’t think is directly exposed to blueprint yet (it’s stored on the players netconnection as playerid). Either way I think it’s a good call to have helper blueprint callable functions to get “character name, steam name or steamID” from a PC. Maybe even a lookup if all you have is the steamid but that would have some perf overhead.

Mikachu_92 · July 21, 2015, 9:47am

BorisDos;336863:

If you are asking about normal UE4 logging that is disabled inside shipping builds. We probably won’t turn this one on anytime soon since it hurts performance and makes servers have to deal with some disk bloat. But even so this does not output things like “player x built y” or “x hit y for 10 damage” which sounds more like what you are wanting. Not really a built in log of gameplay actions on servers currently. But while normal log output is disabled writing to a file is not. Also the Print String node above with ‘print to log’ is writing to the normal UE4 log.

Have you tried looking at the PlayerState’s playername? The steam id I don’t think is directly exposed to blueprint yet (it’s stored on the players netconnection as playerid). Either way I think it’s a good call to have helper blueprint callable functions to get “character name, steam name or steamID” from a PC. Maybe even a lookup if all you have is the steamid but that would have some perf overhead.

Yeah, the print to log was me forgetting to untick it

But yes - i realise i would likely need to pull names and such into a string then append them together to reach a [name][SteamID] killed [name][SteamID] - the issue is that as far as i can tell it is currently impossible for modders to grab the steamID from anywhere (since we cant use C++) or the player name. I will try the playerstate though, might be the thing i didn’t check that works.

Also the game has kill messages by default - but I cannot find where they are generated (probably hidden in C++), being able to use those would make it so easy, literally just save them to a file

anon81545275 · July 21, 2015, 12:50pm

Hey tamaster,

look at this page i created on the wiki :

It should give you the steamID of the player.

K4r3l01 · July 21, 2015, 2:40pm

sorry for this question but how i get player index?

Mikachu_92 · July 21, 2015, 4:21pm

if that works I could kiss you

anon81545275 · July 21, 2015, 4:53pm

it won’t work in the editor obviously but it should give the steamID on a dedicated server

Mikachu_92 · July 21, 2015, 5:04pm

it does indeed!

Now I just need to try and get the character of the damage causer hmmm

Cranky_Coyote · July 21, 2015, 11:29pm

Here’s me wishing you good luck in your endeavor.

K4r3l01 · July 27, 2015, 5:34pm

here is solution how to get name of instigator and causer

Volcanon · August 25, 2015, 4:28am

Did this go anywhere? I’m fairly desperate for logging on my own server and I haven’t had much luck with the blueprints listed here - anyone have a good example of logging working?

anonymous_user_82409c8d · August 25, 2015, 10:09am

Im keen for info on this as well!

anonymous_user_2b080b40 · August 25, 2015, 10:49am

getting players and who killed who should be in the SofT files somewhere.

for logging, as a workaround one could pipe the logging through RCON and have the rcon tool save it ( not sure if one can hook into rcon at all though )