Set InputMode in C++ for Multiplayer Game with EOS

[ulkig-Dohle1009]

Hello, I hope you’re doing well. I have the following code snippet in C++ to switch the UI mode to GameOnly:

APlayerController* PlayerController = GetWorld()->GetFirstPlayerController();
if(PlayerController)
{
    PlayerController->SetInputMode(FInputModeGameOnly());
    PlayerController->bShowMouseCursor = false;
}

However, I have a multiplayer game with EOS and therefore don’t want to get the FirstPlayerController, but rather the PlayerController of the player currently executing this code. What do I need to change in the code? Thank you for any help

[IrSoil]

GetFirstPlayerController() returns the first Local player controller. And on the client you will never have more than one local PC, unless you doing split-screen game. So this function is completly fine to use.

Another case where you can have more than a single PC is a ListenServer: here you will have a client code running with all the players PCs present. But it’s still fine to use GetFirstPlayerController() in this case, since only host can have UI&local input that need to be handled here and host player is always a first player controller on server.

upd: i should stress that on listen server it’s fine to use firstPC in context of UI & Input handling. For most other gameplay problems you still have to find proper PC, but usually you have it from context of what are you doing.