Replace Delay with Event

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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I am setting the player name’s within my Character blueprint which inherits from a custom Character c++ class.

As you can see I am using a Delay node. However, the time it takes for Player State to have the Player Name is not consistent.

So, I was thinking about tying to an Event and using that instead of the Delay.

I searched and found a couple candidates.
APawn::OnRep_PlayerState or
APlayerState::OnRep_PlayerName

However, neither of these are exposed to BP.

Is there an event I could use that is already exposed? If not which of these would be better to use for this?

Thanks!

2

There aren’t, no. That I know of, anyway. If you’re already using a custom c++ class, why not also create a custom Player State class override OnRep_PlayerName and use it to trigger a BlueprintImplementableEvent on your character?

3

I did it with OnRep_PlayerState instead since I needed to access it within the Character BP. However, it only works for clients. It never gets hit for the server.

4

While blueprint replication events are triggered in bp automatically on the server, you need to manually trigger them yourself on the server if they are defined in c++. Add yourself a SetName (or override the one that’s there) on the server and call it manually after changing the name:

virtual void SetName( FString Name ) override /* possibly */
{
  PlayerName = Name;
  OnRep_PlayerName();
}
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I ended up using OnRep_PlayerState for the client. And PossessedBy for the server.