Really new to C++ here - bear with me. I apologize if I’m missing something really simple, but there’s literally no documentation on this (I’ve searched EVERYWHERE)
With the minimal documentation available (again seriously - there’s like nothing) - I was able to get to the point where I can access the ReadLeaderboards() and WriteLeaderboards() functions.
HOWEVER, I have no idea how to properly use them. So…a few questions for each.
How do I get the top players from the leaderboard (for instance, I want the top 10 players)? It wants an array of specific FUniqueNetId values…Is this even possible? What’s the point of leaderboards if I can’t read the top players out…there’s no function to get the top players from a leaderboard…
How do I properly tell it which steam leaderboard to read from? I can’t just put a string there, and I can’t figure out how to get or create an FOnlineLeaderboardReadRef
Do I have to be in an online session to write to a steam leaderboard? (It requires a session name) - seems kind of weird to be required since it’s a single player arcade game I’m making…
How do I get the FUniqueNetID? If I use GetIdentityInterface()->GetUniquePlayerID(); it doesn’t return the correct datatype.
Same question as for ReadLeaderboards() - how do I use the steam leaderboard name here/tell it what leaderboard to write to? How do I create an FOnlineLeaderboardWrite?
Curious if you ever found the answers to your questions. I am specifically attempting to get the top scores, but as you say, it wants an array of specific values.
It is (currently) 100% impossible to get the top scores using the OnlineSubsystem setup in UE4 (wasted 2 weeks trying to figure it out before I got an official answer on that on another thread haha), so the OnlineSubsystem implementation of leaderboards is completely useless.
HOWEVER, following this guide:
You can enable native steam methods and bypass the OnlineSubsystem altogether.
THEN, I basically copy-pasted the “leaderboards step-by-step” code in the steamworks documentation on the steamworks partner website into a new empty class.
Then I made a new actor class that includes that class with blueprint-callable methods that call those methods.
Then I made a child blueprint class and used the methods that way. If you’re doing everything in C++ you can probably do it much more elegantly than I did, but I’m not much of a programmer haha.
Oh lame. I thought the whole point was to use the OnlineSubsystem as a generic layer between Steam, and others such as Oculus. We can’t do just Steam. Thanks for the answer, though!
Yeah might have to do separate implementations then swap them out for packaging different builds for different platforms - it’s an absolute pain, and I really hope they add the functionality soon…
Another option would be to use a third party option using json like EpicLeaderboard or Dreamlo…or write your own and host it on your web server…
Stuck at the same part. “->ReadLeaderboards” and trying to get leader board scores. I do not know how to continue. How to pass needed parameter and how to access result after that.
Did someone found a solution and is the problem of 2016 fixed and leaderboard scores can be retrieved by ue4 online subsystem correctly?
