Getting a player's Steam nickname from his UniqueNetId?

[STRiFE.x (STRiFE)]

Hey,

I have Steam Subsystem set up properly. I’m using beacons to create a party before starting matchmaking. When a client is joining the party, I have access to his UniqueId. This is where I wanted to read the player’s nickname and store it in the server’s version of the client beacon. However for some reason I can’t find a way to do this. The Identity Interface has a function called GetPlayerNickname, but it didn’t work (it returned the party host’s name). The party is working fine, the unique id is valid, as I can open the player’s steam profile with it.

Does anyone know how can I get the player’s nickname from his unique id?

Thanks in advance!

[anonymous_user_f7db3d16]

Once you get the OnlineSubsystemSteam() < (OSS; Example) use it to point to the below code. One is using the LocalUserNum and the other uses FUniqueNetId.

OSS->GetIdentityInterface()->GetPlayerNickname(int32 LocalUserNum);
OSS->GetIdentityInterface()->GetPlayerNickname(const FUniqueNetId& UserId);

That should get your online steam name. If their code is finished. I would be curious to know which works, so i know which to use.

[STRiFE.x (STRiFE)]

@gamepainters As I’ve said in the post, the Identity Interface’s GetPlayerNickname function didn’t work. I have to read a remote player’s name.This function only returns the local user’s nickname.

[UnrealEverything]

The Steamworks SDK has these functions in the IStreamFriends

// returns the local players name - guaranteed to not be NULL.
// this is the same name as on the users community profile page
// this is stored in UTF-8 format
// like all the other interface functions that return a char *, it's important that this pointer is not saved
// off; it will eventually be free'd or re-allocated
virtual const char *GetPersonaName() = 0;

// returns the current status of the specified user
// this will only be known by the local user if steamIDFriend is in their friends list; on the same game server; in a chat room or lobby; or in a small group with the local user
virtual EPersonaState GetFriendPersonaState( CSteamID steamIDFriend ) = 0;

// returns the name another user - guaranteed to not be NULL.
// same rules as GetFriendPersonaState() apply as to whether or not the user knowns the name of the other user
// note that on first joining a lobby, chat room or game server the local user will not known the name of the other users automatically; that information will arrive asyncronously
//
virtual const char *GetFriendPersonaName( CSteamID steamIDFriend ) = 0;

The Steam OnlineSubsystem uses GetFriendPersonaName only in the leaderboard and friends interfaces. So maybe you can get it through FOnlineUser::GetRealName()/GetDisplayName() instead (although this may only work for players on the friendlist).

If using the Advanced Sessions Plugin is an option, the Version Log states this

@mordentral

**02/24/2017**

Added "bRequireNameOnly" to the RequestSteamFriendInfo node, significantly reduces time to return
a result as the cost of not downloading the avatar for that user.

Made FindSessions AllServers option search twice, once for client servers, once for dedicated, and merge the results.
(This fixes a bug and also ensures that steam works correctly, if you want to avoid the longer search time before showing results you could
search one first, fill in results, and then search the second and add them in when it is complete instead).

**Added the following additional nodes**

**AdvancedFreinds**
GetSteamPersonaName - To retrieve the name of a non friend from steam (requires RequestSteamFreindInfo to have sucessfully completed for that ID already)

Make UniqueNetID from SteamID String - Makes a uniquenetid from a 64bit steam ID string (mostly for testing, can use IDs that are not your friends).
Could also be used for storing the string representation of a UniqueNetID and later converting back to retrieve information about them.

**Advanced Steam Workshop**

Get Num Subscribed Workshop Items - Returns how many workshop items the user is subscribed to for this AppID

Get Subscribed Workshop Items - Returns how many items and an array of workshop item IDs for workshop item the user is subscribed to.

Get Workshop Item Details - Takes a workshop item ID, returns a structure with details about that workshop item.

[STRiFE.x (STRiFE)]

@UnrealEverything Hey, thanks for the help! I’m gonna take a look at how the Advanced Steam Sessions plugin does it, but to be honest, I might just roll with a workaround. I’m thinking that I can just ClientRPC down to the clients, gather data locally, then sending the data back to the server via a ServerRPC.