On player death and respawning

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@JamesG;23463

The normal pattern here is to spawn a new Pawn and have the PlayerController possess that one. This is one of the advantages if the Pawn/Controller split.

Thanks for the input James. I was a little put off by my inability to get the proper player index in a multiplayer game, so I attempted to gerry-rig death and respawn with a persistent character… it works, but obviously not optimal. Is there an easy way of un-possessing a pawn and re-possessing it with the proper indexed player?

@PenguinTD;23388

I’d say if you are aiming for single player there is already tutorials. but if you are aiming for multiplayer capable ones from pure blueprint, it might not be possible yet.

I definitely think it’s possible, you just need to redefine what player death and respawning is. Like I stated, disabling input on a given character, dropping a skeletal mesh in their place, setting them to “owner no see, only owner see” and re-initializing their attributes and specifying a new location is pretty close, and all of that can be done via BP.