New Blueprint Networking Tutorial Videos Posted

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I’m not actually well-versed on ShooterGame off the top of my head, so can’t confirm just yet w/o downloading it. My hunch is that it’s using a counter to replicate firing visuals, but would need to investigate to be sure. As it is, I’m actually probably about half-way done with porting the last 2 BP tutorial videos to a C++ blog, but I’m not sure when I’ll find time to finish it just yet. I started it during some spare time last weekend, but I’ll be in Portland for some developer events this weekend (hope to see a lot of people there!).

For variable vs. function, a rough rule-of-thumb is you want variable replication for persistent state and function replication for one-off events. In your case, how you handle it probably depends on exactly what you’re doing. When you’re charging the projectile, is it already spawned and sitting in place? Or is your character doing a cast animation and then it spawns the projectile after the charge? Do you need VFX (particles, sounds, etc.) specifically playing during charge, etc. If you’re doing a casting animation that need to play like a looping particle or something (and the cast time is long enough for it to matter), there’s an argument to be made that the casting step is a state that persists for a while (might want variable replication). Extreme example: Pretend the cast is 10 seconds long and it plays particles on your character during the cast. If you just use an event when it starts, players who are out of relevancy (part 4 of the videos) might miss the event. If they wander up to you afterwards, but before the cast, they won’t see the particles or know you’re preparing to cast.

Alright, that’s some excellent insight. There is a charge that displays an animation and I can see the reasoning behind your explanation.

Thanks very much, I am very pleased with the quality and quantity of content that you guys are delivering to the community.