I am trying to develop an application where each user connected via the browser controls a separate character using pixel streaming in Unreal Engine 5.3.2.
The main problem here is that everyone connecting from the server I opened with pixel stream connects with the same character. I couldn’t find a source about this problem.
Simply using the Pixel Stream infrastructure, How I can associate each user with a different character?
And how can I establish a connection between WebRTC and Unreal Engine?
The main headings about what I need to do will be enough for me.
Unfortunately, Pixel Streaming with a single instance isn’t designed to work with proper multiplayer, this is due to restrictions on how the input is handled.
To elaborate, it’s possible to have users connected and with their own camera, but input won’t allow you to uniquely control your own character.
However, if you were wanting multiplayer whilst utilizing Pixel Streaming, the best means would be to run a basic multiplayer dedicated server and stream the client games to each player accordingly. That way each player gets their own instance/game, but are connected together via the dedicated server.
Sorry to jump in and revive the thread, but you mentioned that it’s possible to have multiple users connected with their own cameras. Can you provide some more information on this? For my use-case, I wouldn’t need any user-input, I just need to be able to create multiple characters with their own cameras, and what you said sounds like it could do just that.
Thanks for sharing this. I did find out how to do this (if I remember correctly, it was exactly this video that helped), but had to move on from the idea, as there were other issues that I don’t think could have been solved, at least for my use case.
If anyone does come across this, the video is a good resource and will help you if all you need are simple camera views
