Except this making my game feel 100x more responsive, it seams that the issue that the player stops shooting is… gone. I haven’t tested everything 100% yet but boy does it feel good and responsive, as we are now not waiting for the server to play the animation for us, we just do it locally and then everyone else sees it when server receives the event. Thank you so much bro!
This is the basic premise of client-side prediction.
Clients Act immediately to input, pass action to server. Server acts/corrects, passes on to other clients.
Character Movement Component (CMC) does this with movement.
Do you by any chance know how to fix rubber banding, I experience it a lot, even at average network emulation preset. I haven’t changed any settings or values at all in the character movement component.
In almost all cases of rubber banding (dev side) it’s the server fighting client input. Somewhere you aren’t updating the server on input so it resets the client to where it thinks it should be.
I’d have to see code related to the movement fighting.
I am just using the basic character movement component and never changing movement speed or anything. This generally occurs when going backwards and to the side at the same time.
Is interpolation applied by default? And what values do you think I should use for it?
CMC uses client-side prediction, so all base movement is replicated already.
Add Controller Yaw/Pitch Input, Add Movement Input, Jump and Crouch
First thought is your Add Movement Input isn’t setup correctly. Either world direction values or Enhance Input action.
Generally need to see code to debug it.
Seams like I didn’t use roll on “move right/left”. Will try again now, thank you for your response.
Nothing really changed when using roll aswell…, but I do use the old input system, would that change anything? Switched to Enhance Inputs and used your exact code but this still happening…
Yeah I use this one, I am wondering if you would recommend messing with the smoothing settings in the character movement component? And what values you would recommend and have as a max.
Defaults is all I typically use. From what you’ve posted this isn’t a smoothing or interpolation issue. It’s the server correcting movement.
Every bit of conditional logic the player (client) uses for movement, must be used by the server. It must do its own calculations as well, so don’t send it client determined values.
Yes, I have understood this part, that the server “re-simulates” the clients moves and corrects them if they’re too wrong. And also sends this information to all other connected clients.
Post your entire movement logic (WASD).
Just a minute, thanks.
I just went into thid person view, and it seams like my characters animations are a bit off, sometimes the character just gets a “glitch” effect and in a very very small time period changes animation and then changes it back. This doesnt seam to be a networking issue, rather an animation blueprint one. Thank you for your help and time man!
Yeah was gonna say based on your input flow logic (default stuff), the issue is leaning toward a blendspace or state machine, maybe something in animbp event graph. There’s a variable somewhere that’s not aligning correctly.
Yes, proboably something like that, this does not occur without network emulation, so its proboably some variable somwhere
You mind taking a look at my code? It seams like a Delta (Rotator) is giving inconsistent values, sometimes it randomly gives 27 and 0, which is proboably causing this issue. It seams like Get Actor Rotation is feeding inconsistent values… Any sulutions?