Would we be able to get the tcp and udp functions brought out to blueprints so we don’t have to go through the nightmare that is visual studio and the c++ side of things ? , I know there are plugins but they either don’t get maintained or bugs fixed .
May I ask what you would do with UDP and TCP functions? What would they expose and what could you do with them?
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sorry for the late reply,
there is plenty of applications for example in my current project i am interacting with a webserver that runs a php script to generate worlds but also store objects users build with in the world (it’s a builder game)
The udp side i have been using a plugin so far which has it’s own issues for things like player position tracking essentially building a crude multiplayer system but in my case at the current stage of progress at the last test we did using a server i wrote in c++
and a crude protocol up to 1000 players can easily be implemented, after that though peer to peer just makes it ridiculous especially when you start getting into distance/scope based systems
peer to peer is a lot harder because nat isn’t exactly consistent across all connections and upnp is a bit of a joke when it comes to actually using it
i am aware unreal has a really good multiplayer replication system however it’s not a one size fits all type of thing and when you want to scale up and run dedicated servers etc,
other really usefull stuff like device integration , i have an accelerometer which i have hooked up to a small wifi chip that send udp packets to unreal and lets me use the data from that to drive inputs etc
just wanted to bump this one ,
so far yeah there are plugins you can get for udp and tcp but most are not exactly very performant or bloody expensive, if not outright too buggy to use let alone put in anything releasable
there is only one upnp plugin on the marketplace which i bought but honestly not worth the $60odd it cost
the crucial features like setting the description of upnp entries and lease times don’t work and the developer doesn’t seem that interested in fixing it as it is it is not fit for anything releasable
I’ve been trying to get the c++ side of things working with visual studio unreal engine and to be honest it’s just been a nightmare plagued with all sorts off issues the latest one of many being which I’ve spent hours on
"ERROR: UnrealBuildTool.dll not found in “…..\Engine\Binaries\DotNET\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuildTool.dll”
I get it there is replication built-in and fair enough to a point but
realistically the ability to send and receive udp packets is a very basic function that should be there as blueprint functions and not as a poorly supported plugin from a third party
send and recieve udp packets …
open tcp connections …
what else would you do?