Simple multiplayer different characters

Unreal Engine Programming & Scripting Multiplayer & Networking
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#1

I cannot seem to be able to differentiate between the looks of the players in multiplayer.

Using replication and SwitchHasAuthority I managed to achieve pretty much the whole functionality of what I need in multiplayer.

However, I cannot seem to be able to make the 2 players different. I don’t really know how to approach this, any suggestions?

#2

Material Instance, that will change color be the Index of the player?

#3

How do I find the Index of a player?

And for 2 players (no dedicated server, just a client and a server, which is all I need) is this any different from using SwitchHasAuthority?

#4

So after checking it turns out that the Index of the player is only relevant when multiple controllers are used on the same machine, not for a server-client setup. The Index is going to be 0 for everyone in that case…

Still, what I want is to have different meshes or even materials for the server and for the client.