The server is never locally controlled?

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Hi guys,

I’m working on a multiplyer game for the VR Vive, so I followed tips from this site: Project Artemis: UE4 Multiplayer VR. But one part is failing.

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When the server (which is also a client) check the “IsLocallyControlled” node, he never returns true. So he never send his position to the other clients but can see them moving around. I figured this out threw severous logs and print string. Is it normal? Am I missing something? Thanks for the answers guys. Cheers.

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did you maybe figure this one out? I have the same problem:

if (World)
{
    if (IsLocallyControlled()) {
    	GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-1, 7, FColor::Blue, TEXT("spawn light success"));
    	NoctovisorLight = World->SpawnActor<AAlienLightHolder>(AAlienLightHolder::StaticClass(), GetActorLocation(), GetActorRotation());
    }
}

executes on owning clients but not if the server is the owner

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You probably want

if ( HasAuthority() || IsLocallyControlled() )
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no, in the case of a client calling this, the spawning would execute on both the client and the server since both of them pass the if statement

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Ah, right. My mistake, what you want to check for is the NetMode and see if it’s the listen server as only the listen server can have a local client in addition to being the server.

if (GetNetMode() == ENetMode::NM_ListenServer || IsLocallyControlled() )
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Unfortunately this produces the same effect as your previous proposition. I want the code to execute only on the calling controller. With this, if the client calls, the server AND the client execute it.

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Ok so after hours of fighting i figured it out. You just can’t call this function on beginPlay, apparently the server needs some time to connect the player controllers, so just do it after a delay

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Thank you for this, I have been stuck on this for hours trying to figure out why “IsLocallyControlled” works everywhere else. Now I know it is because it is BeginPlay.

8 years later, you are still helping people out lol