Set Multiplayer Name

[Andrew_Ferraro]

@reznorism;397199

Been working at this for two days and at my wits end, how can you set a unique player name in multiplayer sessions?

This is all built off of the shooter example, as well as the networking tutorials on youtube etc.

I’ve got a menu set up with two options, host and join. If the player clicks host, it starts a session and loads a map.
If they click join, it finds the session (if one is hosted) and joins it. The server player and client player(s) both appear in the correct session/map together.

I’ve been trying to identify the unique players by either their player name or id from the player state, which is sent to a text render widget on the player character above their head.

There has to be a way to do this correctly, I just can’t work it out no matter how much searching or reading I’ve done. How could you uniquely identify the server and clients with a name? I’d like to eventually have it so that they could enter the text on either the host or join menu and use that for their name. But a generated one from player state or whatever is fine for now!

Any help is appreciated =)

I suggest: 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JCBNHfvUA4
2)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdTeUAqjQUg