I'm developing a game in a Listen Server environment, and I'm encountering an issue related to setting mesh transform values when using a class derived from ACharacter

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I’m developing a game in a Listen Server environment, and I’m encountering an issue related to setting mesh transform values when using a class derived from ACharacter.

:white_check_mark: What works:

When I set the skeletal mesh and its transform in the constructor like this:

cpp

복사편집

GetMesh()->SetSkeletalMesh(SomeMesh);
GetMesh()->SetRelativeLocation(FVector(0.f, 0.f, -90.f));
GetMesh()->SetRelativeRotation(FRotator(0.f, -90.f, 0.f));

everything works as expected — all clients, including the host and connected players, see the correct mesh position and rotation.

:cross_mark: What fails:

However, if I try to set the mesh’s position and rotation in BeginPlay(), after loading mesh and animation data from a data table, the values appear to be overwritten or reset during runtime.

More specifically, in a Listen Server setup:

  • The host (server + client 0) sees everything correctly.
  • Other clients see the mesh at the default location (0, 0, 0) with no rotation applied.

Even using a replicated function like this doesn’t fix the issue:

cpp

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void ASurvivor::Server_MeshPos_Implementation()
{
    Multicast_MeshPos();
}

void ASurvivor::Multicast_MeshPos_Implementation()
{
    GetMesh()->SetRelativeLocation(FVector(0.f, 0.f, -90.f));
    GetMesh()->SetRelativeRotation(FRotator(0.f, -90.f, 0.f));
}

But the transform still seems to get overwritten for remote clients.

:red_question_mark: Question:

Why does this happen, and how can I correctly apply mesh transform values at runtime (such as in BeginPlay) so that all clients, including remote ones, consistently see the correct mesh transform?

Any guidance would be appreciated!