Hello your Plugin is a great addition for every one how doesn’t know to code in c++ like myself! I just implemented in to a project and every thing works great in the stand-alone game, my only problem is that it doesn’t work in the build project (doesn’t connect to steam and multiplayer is also not possible). Did some one else experience this kind of issue in 4.24.3?
Sounds like you aren’t registering your appid correctly in packaged games, there are new .target variables for defining the build id now, though I think it also still takes the app_id.txt file.
I can see this issue has been posted a few times but for some reason, the solution isn’t clicking for me. I have a “Press Tab” scoreboard that pops up in my multiplayer game. I’m running a legit steam ID, and I’m trying to replicate the Avatar Images to clients from my player state. I’ve been able to replicate everything else that I need for the scoreboard from the player state, but for some reason, the Get Steam Friend Avatar node is only showing the avatars on the server. Do I need to rig this up a different way in order for clients to see everyone’s avatar as well?
I just have the scoreboard widget casting to the PS and grabbing the “SteamAvatar” Variable I created. Thanks!
I can see this issue has been posted a few times but for some reason, the solution isn’t clicking for me. I have a “Press Tab” scoreboard that pops up in my multiplayer game. I’m running a legit steam ID, and I’m trying to replicate the Avatar Images to clients from my player state. I’ve been able to replicate everything else that I need for the scoreboard from the player state, but for some reason, the Get Steam Friend Avatar node is only showing the avatars on the server. Do I need to rig this up a different way in order for clients to see everyone’s avatar as well?
I just have the scoreboard widget casting to the PS and grabbing the “SteamAvatar” Variable I created. Thanks!
Player controllers aren’t replicated to all clients, only the owning client and the server see the player controller.
You can get game state and the PlayerState array and get the unique net id from the player state instead, player states replicate to all connections (though with some delay).
I was able to get my dedicated server (AppId 480) listed on steam. Unreal Engine Version 4.25.1 (source build for Dedicated server).
The Dedicated server build is running on a Dedicated Root-Server.
But My own InGame Browser does only find other SpaceWar servers not my own. So I cannot join my server
Is there something missing? Or how did others sloved the problem?
When you host your server add a “key” to the extra settings, Just pass a unique word/key or some text and when you search for your hosted games filter for that key. Then have only games with that key get added to your server list. I’m sure there are other ways of doing this but this way works for me until I get my own AppID. Also make sure you allow through your firewall, router etc. Make sure “should advertise” is checked when creating the session
And you may need to increase your client outbound bandwidth for voip to function correctly, default settings for bandwidth get saturated with the engine codec.
Also is there a way to modify some of the options of the session once it has already been created, say for instance I create a private session and after my friend has joined, I want to make it public, is that a possibility ?
Also is there a way to modify some of the options of the session once it has already been created, say for instance I create a private session and after my friend has joined, I want to make it public, is that a possibility ?
That post contains the values to tweak yes, the actual values you end up using though you’ll want to either calculate from outbound traffic on the clients end, or tweak iteratively.
And UpdateSession lets you change server broadcast properties post launch.
I have a question, and I’m not sure if this has to do with your plugin or the engine in general. When a match is full on its player limit, and i go to find a match, that full match won’t appear in the match list, obviously because it’s full. But I would like for the match to still pop up so I can show a status that it’s full and the players are in-game. Mainly so it looks like people are actually playing on servers and the find match window isn’t completely empty. Do you know of an easy way to adjust this on your plugin? or is this an Unreal thing? I haven’t been able to get the full match to show on any projects. Thanks for all you’ve done for us!
I have a question, and I’m not sure if this has to do with your plugin or the engine in general. When a match is full on its player limit, and i go to find a match, that full match won’t appear in the match list, obviously because it’s full. But I would like for the match to still pop up so I can show a status that it’s full and the players are in-game. Mainly so it looks like people are actually playing on servers and the find match window isn’t completely empty. Do you know of an easy way to adjust this on your plugin? or is this an Unreal thing? I haven’t been able to get the full match to show on any projects. Thanks for all you’ve done for us!
Its not the plugin, the steam lobby api filters out full lobbies from the RequestLobbyList call. If you were using dedicated servers it would return full servers, but the local client hosting for steam in ue4 uses steam lobbies.
Player controllers aren’t replicated to all clients, only the owning client and the server see the player controller.
You can get game state and the PlayerState array and get the unique net id from the player state instead, player states replicate to all connections (though with some delay).
Thanks for the info! but for some reason now, the server side is only seeing the avatar to the client on BOTH server and client avatars. and of course, on client screen, nothing at all still. Was this what you were talking about? or is it a different setup? Thanks again for all your help.
Thanks for the info! but for some reason now, the server side is only seeing the avatar to the client on BOTH server and client avatars. and of course, on client screen, nothing at all still. Was this what you were talking about? or is it a different setup? Thanks again for all your help.
You are using a server sided RPC there…its not even executing on the clients.
Hey guys! I’m using v4.24 of the plugin and I am facing some serious issues with rejoining an existing session.
I am able to connect once to the listen server, but if I disconnect and try to reconnect I am unable to do so.
The logs host side show the following:
[QUOTE]
Join Request for user xxx
Join Succeeded for user xxx
LogNet::UChannel::ReceivedSequencedBunch: Bunch.bClose == true. ChIndex == 0. Calling ConditionalCleanUp. UChannel::CleanUp: ChIndex == 0. Closing connection. Channel::Close: Sending CloseBunch. ChIndex == 0.
LogOnline: STEAM: Removing P2P
Which essentially means that the client briefly connects to the host server, but then gets immediately disconnected.
And on the client’s side, after calling Join Session, It successfully connects to the host session, but I get a connection timeout error, probably during map travel.
After that, it’s basically impossible for me to join any other session from the client till i restart the game.
The same is also applicable on the host.
I am calling Destroy Session before every start host/join/search for hosts operation and even when I exit the game. So at this point I’m not sure if this even related to bad sessions.
It only affects the game when running the steam subsystem.
I’ve tried everything I can think of. I’d be really thankful if someone could help me understand what’s happening/help me resolve the issue?
