How do I get the current player's "player controller" (multiplayer respawn setup)?

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Hello!

I’m trying to create a simple respawn mechanic in my multiplayer shooter project. When a player gets shot, his life is decremented and when it reaches zero, he dies. This part works. Immediately after his death he’s supposed to respawn. This is the part I’m struggling with. This is my setup:
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As you can see, I’m spawning a new character at a preset location (where he’s not colliding with anything), then destroy the actor he’s currently controlling and immediately possess the new one. The setup above “works”, but only for the player, whose index is 0 (in my case - the client). If I change the value to 1 it only works for a different player, obviously (this time, the server). As you can see from the image, I was trying a few different ways to get the player controller (get owning player controller, get instigator controller, get controller), but none of them work. I don’t really understand the difference between them, so I just experimented. I don’t have much experience with player controllers.

Does anyone have an idea how to approach this problem? I would be very thankful for an answer!

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Event “Any Damage” fire on server’s pawn (character). So when pawn got event - pawn destroy self… aaaaaand… are u sure next code will be execute on pawn marked “Must be deleted”?

I think u can try this:

  1. After any damage fire
  2. Get pawn controller (Get Controller (pawn))
  3. Call function like “respawn pawn” on controller

Respawn pawn function:

  1. Destroy possessed pawn
  2. Spawn new
  3. Possess new
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Thank you so much :smiley: ! Your suggestions helped me to make it work! It took me a while to understand what you mean, but I finally found the solution:

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You would not believe how happy I was to see both the characters to be able to spawn! Thank you :slight_smile: