Generic Shooter: Support Thread

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@qdelpeche;565122

@: What would be the quickest way to have the weapons also use the team colour? My material already has the parameters set and is using the get team colour node, but I think I need to make a call somewhere that actually sets the team colour for the weapon.

Another question … how do you add more teams?

There is a material function you can use called MF_GetTeamColor.

To add more teams, create more Team Info widgets and update BP_GameState accordingly. You will have to add additional lerping logic in MF_GetTeamColor for new team indexes to work properly.

@qdelpeche;569153

@: Where is the player name set in your blueprints … being digging around for a little while now and I can’t seem to find it. 8-{

Name is currently not being set in Blueprints. Player names default to Epic’s implementation of player names. Without Steam, this defaults to OS user name + some long hash.

@uberblockhead;570639

Okay I’m trying to create a Team elimination gamemode I have the elimination part down but Im trying to get it so a certain team can only have a certain amount of players in like Team 2 can only have 3 players so when Team 2 is full then how ever many players into Team 1 can join in team 1

If I didnt make any sense with the explanation hopefully this is simpler

Team 1 = unlimited players
Team 2 = 3 players
Once reaches close Team 2 from anyone joining

I figured out how to fix the issue on my tenth attempt XD its all good now

Aye, to do this you’ll have to change the logic in GetValidTeam and GetAutoAssignTeamNum in your game mode derived from BP_Deathmatch.

@Raed Abbas;572370

Hi @ ,
1-I’m getting this error in UE4.12.5. It appears when I close the game. Not sure how bad it is but just thought I should let you know.
Error Blueprint Runtime Error: Attempted to access BP_Pickup_Ammo_Rocket_C_14 via property K2Node_DynamicCast_AsActor, but BP_Pickup_Ammo_Rocket_C_14 is pending kill from function: ‘UpdateFocusedPickup’ from node: Branch in graph: UpdateFocusedPickup in object: BP_PlayerCharacter with description: Attempted to access BP_Pickup_Ammo_Rocket_C_14 via property K2Node_DynamicCast_AsActor, but BP_Pickup_Ammo_Rocket_C_14 is pending kill

2-Any chance for a guide on how to get the project to work on PS4 please?

Raed

1. Will be fixed in the next update
2. Not currently.

@Control;573914

Hello, please I have a few questions.

1. Where is the player name being set?
2. Can I get a gamemode from a found session. Not ingame just After Find Session node in ServerBrowser Widget.
3. Where is Server name being set?
   These have been killing be for I dont know how long…

1. Name isn’t being set in BP. Player names are set by Epic’s default implementation, which is OS’s user name + a random hash.
2. Not without custom changes / custom plugins for UE4.
3. Its currently being set to the host’s name in Epic’s default implementation. Changing this requires C++ or custom plugins for UE4.

@KristianV;580038

Dedicated server questions, there was a mention that this is supported but i’m unable to properly connect to a dedicated server.

1. Dedicated server launches fine but doesn’t announce it’s presence to the server browser
2. When a player joins through console (open 127.0.0.1) they get to enter the match normally, but seems like the player is not initialized correctly. All players that connect don’t have a weapon equipped and cannot interact with the weapon pickups.

Is there something im missing or is the dedicated server support not actually implemented properly?

Dedicated Server support is for the most part there, but any issues that are coming up are generally due to the lack of C++ code for handling edge cases.

1. This is entirely dependent on how your OnlineSubsystem treats dedicated servers. You can pseudo force this behavior by calling Create Session in your game mode’s begin play, which might fail if a session already exists. A failure should be safe to ignore, I believe.
2. This also depends on your subsystem. If you are using Steam, direct ip connections tend to not go through the same player init that Steam wants to do and weird things happen. If not using Steam, I can not explain this and have no idea why it wouldn’t work.

I’m hoping to get some time to work on the next major update and include more dedicated server specific documentation, but life is demanding and stuff.