Replicated character moves smooth but rotation is choppy on client side

[Jon8857]

I am doing a RTS style game. So for the “units” I am using the Character class. I turned the Net Update Frequency down from the default 100 times per second to 5 times per second. There is no first person camera so 5 updates per second is plenty and saves a ton of bandwidth of course.

The problem is that on the client side the units rotation “snaps” to the server value 5 times per second… It’s odd because the movement itself remains smooth - unaffected by the 5 updates per second. There is obviously network smoothing & prediction going on, as it should…

So why does the rotation not smooth out as well?

[KaminekDobby]

I got the same problem, been trying to fix it for a few days now but no solutions yet… pretty infuriating

[Wall6ly]

Jon8857, KaminekDobby, did either of you find a solution? I’m having the same issue now.

[Wall6ly]

Of course, I found the answer right after posting this. For me the trick was to change my pawn’s settings. In the root of the pawn, Replicated Movement > Rotation Quantization > Change to “Short Components”.

This comment is what gave me the hint and goes into more detail:

How to replicate rotation smoothly,without character using controller rotation Yaw?

Hi, if your pawn don’t has wheels I would strongly recommend that you use a character instead, because it seems to me that right now you’re taking a pawn and trying to turn it into a character If you want to replicate movement of a pawn, then first you can increase the precision of the replicated rotation. [293095-replication-precision.png] And run the movement logic on the client and server to reduce/eliminate lag due to network latency/update frequency. So when the player inp…