Multiplayer Shooter - Spectate another character after death and destroy

Development Programming & Scripting Multiplayer & Networking
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I want to build a system that when the character dies, the dead character can spectate another character that is still alive. Now I know that in the PlayerController class, there is a function called SetViewTargetWithBlend…This works well if I don’t destroy the character. However, I want to be able to destroy the character after the character dies.

So my question is, how can I accomplish the same thing as SetViewTargetWithBlend while destroying the dead character at the same time?

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Try unpossessing the controlled character before changing viewtarget

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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, this solution does not work. Camera does not follow another living player. It just stays at the point the character died.

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Bumping this thread…

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You need to create a spectator class. On death the server (game mode) spawns the spectator class and you possess it.

You then simply get a list of all simulated proxies on the client. Each will represent a living player. You can then either set view target with blend or simply attach your camera to the sim proxy of choice.

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Interesting, thanks for your response. So you’re basically saying to

  • unposess from the dead character
  • possess the spectator pawn
  • set view target from the spectator pawn to another character
  • destroy the dead character
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There’s an already spectating system out there.