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Solutions for a characters stats over a network?

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#1

I have a variety of stats on the Character Controller; Speed, Health, Stamina, etc. (I’m assuming that’s the best place to put them) I need to setup this character for multi-player game, and I don’t want to get too far in the setup in case there’s a better solution. I’m going to also have a character creation system as well, where you define those attributes before you get spawned into the level.

What would be the best way to store those variables so I can prevent cheating, that way each player pulls that data from an external file or another option on the server?

Thanks!

#2

You should watch the network tutorial by Adam Davis on youtube. It covers just this and making it all work. Plus the first couple videos give a great understanding of networking. Basically they use the third person template and make it multiplayer, you set up health and bombs, spawn and damage pawns

#3

Do you by change have the URL to his videos? I tried to search for him in Youtube and can’t seem to find them…

#4

Not sure if these are the ones that Hakabane are talking about, but these are the ones I used to learn Networking and Replication: BLUEPRINT NETWORKING TUTORIALS

#5

Thanks qdelpeche those were the ones I learned from as well

#6

Though you could place them into the Character or Character Controller, i would also think about placing some things into the “PlayerState” class. You can set this class in the GameMode BP Defaults (it is a bit hidden)
and the “GameState” class has an array of all PlayerStates. That’s something pretty cool to keep your PlayerStates organized for a Scoreboard or something like that (PlayerState already contains Ping, Score and Name).

#7

Thanks for the suggestions.

#8

those videos are great but in my opinion they jump over some parts. For example I never see how to set up characters to work over network (and the spawning of them), because many of epic’s example projects are network-ready out of the box.
Would love to see additional videos about the topic :slight_smile: