Onrep not running on server?

[marlinwes10141 (wesmarlin1014)]

Isn’t the Onrep function(Cpp btw) supposed to run in both on client and server? I thought it was supposed to take care of simple variable replication, but I can’t seem to get it working on the server side, and have to make separate functions for all of them, which seems unnecessary. Am I missing something?

Here’s my code, can I simplify it?:

void APlayerCharacter::SetIsDead(bool value) { // for ease of use
	if (HasAuthority()) {
		SetIsDead_Server(value);
	}
	else {
		SetIsDead_Client(value);
	}
}

void APlayerCharacter::SetIsDead_Client_Implementation(bool value) // client, reliable
{
	SetIsDead_Server(value);
}

void APlayerCharacter::SetIsDead_Server_Implementation(bool value) /* server, reliable, why doesn''t it work without this? */
{
	bIsDead = value;
	RetargetMesh->SetSimulatePhysics(value);
}

void APlayerCharacter::OnRep_IsDead() // bool IsDead , replicatedusing = onrep_isdead
{
	RetargetMesh->SetSimulatePhysics(value);
}

[GarnerP57]

@marlinwes1014

Isn’t the Onrep function(Cpp btw) supposed to run in both on client and server?

No. Blueprint is the exception where it also calls RepNotify on the server itself.

Replication is something that happens on clients triggered by the server when changing a replicated variable.

You can get the Blueprint RepNotify behavior in cpp by calling OnRep when you change the variable on the server.

void APlayerCharacter::KillPlayerCharacter()
{
	if (HasAuthority())
	{
		bIsDead = true;
		OnRep_IsDead();
	}
}

void APlayerCharacter::OnRep_IsDead()
{
	RetargetMesh->SetSimulatePhysics(bIsDead);
}