TextRenderComponent->SetText only works when non networked

Development Programming & Scripting Multiplayer & Networking
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I have a multiplayer game I’m working on and am using a TextRenderComponent to render the player name above the character.

When I run in single player mode, everything works perfect. The text updates, shows the correct name, its all great.

But as soon as I add players, or even just check the run dedicated server, it doesnt work at all anymore. I would have said replication, but even explicitly calling TextRenderComponent->SetText(Name) on the character class itself doesn’t do anything, client or server.

I have logging setup to show that the name being passed in is working, just the changing of the TextRenderComponent seems to break as soon as the game goes multiplayer.

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Hello,

Please add these lines to TextRenderComponent’s constructor:

TextRender->SetNetAddressable();
TextRender->SetIsReplicated(true);

If you like to learn more about Networking and Replication in Unreal Engine 4, please go here:

Hope this helped!

Cheers!