Need Help Getting Started With Networking

[AmareshB (Amaresh Beuria)]

@MatheusRC;709828

Sorry, looks like the “GetController-HasAuthority” gives a null for the spawned characters for each client. To get access to it, we could make a valid check and if it happens to be not valid we delay it for 0 and re-call it. But it wouldn’t work, since the server does actually have authority over every spawned character in the server. I tried it, and it set “Server” over the head of every character.

So there’s two ways we could reach the result we want:

• Run SwitchHasAuthority and If it’s Authority, check the RemoteRole for each character (GetRemoteRole). I tried it, and it returns ROLE_SimulatedProxy for the server character and ROLE_AutonomousProxy for client characters.
  So we just branch on the RemoteRole and set “Server” if it is ROLE_SimulatedProxy and “Client” if is not.

• Run SwitchHasAuthority and If it’s Authority, use IsLocallyControlled to filter the server character. So IsLocallyControlled would return true for the server character, so we just set the text to “Server”, and if it is false we set to “Client”.

C++ IsLocallyControlled->IsLocalController:

if (GetRemoteRole() != ROLE_AutonomousProxy && Role == ROLE_Authority)
{
	// Local authority in control.
	return true;
}

Sorry for the mess, I’m learning network myself as I try to help!

This is my current node setup as per your suggestion and it works perfectly for me. Although the delay is a necessary evil in this case, otherwise the ‘SERVER’ reads ‘CLIENT’ when respawned. I guess it is because BP is a bit slower than c++. But anyways it is working and that’s the good news here.

Thanks a lot man! you’re a champ. As I go through the networking in depth I’ll keep asking questions, so I hope I can learn more from all the fellow developers.

Cheers!