I initially posted this on the answer hub, but just came across these forums and thought it might be a better place to strike up a discussion.
I am creating a bunch of microservices to handle launching instances, handle user authentication, matchmaking, etc and would like to implement my own OSS. I haven’t attempted this yet, but have perused some of the existing subsystems in the source code and was wondering:
- What is required to get the engine to recognize an OSS by name? I noticed a specific file which stored names of the existing subsystems.
- How much of the boilerplate found in these plugins would be required to get the most basic implementation working?
- Any other important details I should know about beforehand?
EDIT: I’m also wondering where in the source code I’d look to find where the engine initializes a subsystem based on what’s found in the .ini file. e.g.
[OnlineSubsystem]
DefaultPlatformService=Steam
I’m about to search the source for this now in the meantime.