Chat System

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What type of chat system does Unreal Supply for with the engine? I know there are some XMPP classes in the documentation but I haven’t found any examples of them being used. Are these fully integrated into the game engine? Do you need to establish your own XMPP server?

http://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/API/Runtime/XMPP/index.html

Any further info would be appreciated!

Thanks!

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If you mean in-game chat, the absolutely easiest way to do that is with the Unreal networking / RPC system, using the game server.

If you mean chat separate from the game server, then that’s not really something Unreal can help with, because you’d need a totally separate login/authentication system and such.

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Thanks for the reply jwatte! Do you have any idea what the XMPP classes are for then? Seems like they might interface to a XMPP (Jabber) back end (e.g. OpenFire, Prosody).