[TEMPLATE] Multiplayer TopDown Template C++

[MegaChill]

@sivan;637789

I don’t really understand why it is better than simply in PlayerController do a check on button press IsLocalController() , and if true make ray tracing and target setting locally on client, then call a server function and passing this new location, where you do the pathfinding by NavSys->SimpleMoveToLocation(this, DestLocation);
by the way, you could add hiding the decal component of the character on BeginPlay() if the controller is not IsLocalController()

Like I had said this is ONE way to do it, I didn’t say it is the ONLY way to do it. With that being said, it was mentioned multiple times WHY SimpleMoveToLocation was not intended for Multiplayer and should not be used as such. (by Epic Staff btw). However what I wanted to achieve was an architecture where the Player would never host any game but all would come from a dedicated server, and that is what I have achieved, e.g. every player gets his own Character (controlled by AI) to posess and control.

Here is a Quote from the EPIC Lead AI Programmer on this topic::

@MieszkoZ

SimpleMoveToLocation was never intended to be used in a network environment. It’s simple after all Currently there’s no dedicated engine way of making player pawn follow a path. It seems like a feature we should support in the engine, so we’ll add it in not too distant future. In the meantime I’d suggest just having an AI controller on the server that PlayerController would send requests to and have all the movement happen on the server.

So I took what he said at face value and trust in his words. You can also take a look at the thread on answerhuib where people discuss the blueprint and play around with SimpleMoveToLocation etc and they all encounter issues.