Overrides

Third Person Character

Game Mode (Game)

Game Mode (Lobby)

Game Mode (Menu)

Handle Banned Player Entry

Get Character Name on Index

Swap Dynamic Character

Get Pawn to Spawn

Get Max Characters

Update Pawn Data

Third Person Character

This character section is simply an example of how you might go about passing data to your own character. We are calling this later on from the component.

Open BP_ThirdPersonCharacter

On the Event Graph, create a new Custom Event

Create an event called SetupCharacterData with an input of type FN00dLobbyCharacterInfoDataExample.

Promote the input pin to a new variable

Since we are using data for this example character, this is data that will be set on your character and is representative of the data type that you might have for your characters

You may also use character classes if your project requires it, see BPC_N00dLobby_Child for examples on how to set that up. It follows the same logic flow as this data example with some slight differences that will be apparent in the same overridden functions.

In the details of the variable FN00dLobbyCharacterInfoExample you just created, set it as RepNotify

Open OnRep_CharacterData

Add this script within.

Game Mode (Game)

Fill out the defaults of this class with the classes we care about, the PlayerController and the DefaultPawn

Make sure bUseSeamlessTravel is flagged.

In the components window, add BPC_Lobby

Override SpawnDefaultPawnFor

And call SpawnGameModePawnFor from the lobby component

Also override OnPostLogin and call OnPostGameLogin from the lobby component

Compile and save, we are done with this class

Game Mode (Lobby)

Same as last time, let's fill out the defaults of this class again, this time with the addition of the spectator along with the player controller and default pawn

Make sure bUseSeamlessTravel is flagged.

Add the component to the components window

On BeginPlay, call InitialiseLobby from the component and override OnPostLogin and OnLogout, calling the OnPostLobbyLogin and LobbyLogout respectively

We also need to override SpawnDefaultPawnFor and ChoosePlayerStart

Call SpawnLobbyPawnFor

Call ChooseLobbyStart

Compile and save, we are doing great!

NOTE: in the Class Settings of your component in the Lobby Game Mode, you have some options to change if you want to use different modes of spawning and visualising the character. We are leaving them the default for the example

Game Mode (Menu)

Add the lobby component

Define BP_PlayerController in the defaults

Class Defaults of this class are just the defaults, no extra steps necessary

Compile and save, that's the game modes complete

Player Controller

Add the lobby component

Also make sure this component replicates

Pull off the lobby component and GetLobbyWidget, cast to WBP_Lobby and call ShowChatWidget. You will be creating your own later if you want, and you would cast to that instead.

Compile and save, the Player Controller is complete

IMPORTANT NOTE: If your project uses multiple controllers (i.e., menu controller, lobby controller, gameplay controller), you must define the component on each; the included examples only use a single controller for all the levels.

Player Start

Add the lobby component

Also add a new CapsuleComponent and a child ArrowComponent

Name the CapsuleComponent CharacterPreview and the ArrowComponent FacingDirection

Capsule component transform

That's us here. Compile and save

Spectator

Under the class defaults we want to turn off AddDefaultMovementBindings on this class

Well done, that's the classes all setup! Now let's move onto setting up our lobby component

Lobby Component

For full control over our character spawns, we must now override several functions to build and assign the pawns the players have chosen. For this example we will be using data types, but you can also build the characters based on any classes you may have. See the example component included in the plugin for more script that will get that job done for you.

Open BPC_Lobby

Create a variable called CharacterData based on the struct FN00dLobbyCharacterInfoDataExample, make it an array type

These are the functions we will be overriding

Override them by hovering over the Functions category under the Override dropdown

Build Character List

In the overridden function. build this script

Keep in mind, you are using the example data table here - if you want to use your own character, you should create a new data table based on the FN00dLobbyCharacterInfoDataExample struct if you want to use the included struct, or you may use you own struct based on whatever values you define. This section is completely down to you on how you go about setting your characters up that the system needs to know about.

For both the data table functions, fill out DT_N00dLobbyCharacterData.

This is using the example data table. You are not limited to use this.

Handle Banned Player Entry

Handle this however you want. Show a widget on the controller, for example. We are simple making this player not spawn at any player start in this parent.

Get Character Name on Index

Grab the index of our Character Data and plug its Name into Character Name

Swap Dynamic Character

Pull off GetPlayerPawnMap and call find, followed by UpdatePawnData

Get Pawn to Spawn

We don't care about the index here because the DefaultPawnClass is the class we will be using to build data on. The index is used if you want to spawn specific character classes.

Get Max Characters

Grab the CharacterData array and get its length, minus 1. And return.

Update Pawn Data

Let's go ahead and call that function on the Third Person Character we created eariler. Remember: this is representative of your own character and you may do things differently here, however this is where we want to construct the data on your character class.

That's all the script we need!

Save and compile, have a coffee if need be, you deserve it!

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