Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion

Thaddeus

Modifying Starting Map or Number of Players

Navigate to the MainMenu Blueprints folder at \Cardinal\MainMenu\Blueprints
Insert your GameModes into Enum_GameModes, list your available map names to Enum_Maps, and set your server host's preferred maximum number of players to Enum_NumberOfPlayers using the supplied pattern.
For skipped number of player options, use the enumeration's integer. For the number of players option you'd like available, spell out the integer.
For example: 0, 1, Three will make a server with a maximum of "Three Players." (Please note the game modes and player limits are not implemented in the actual project. This is up to the end user to implement.)

Deploying Packaged Builds

In order for key bindings to work on packaged builds, you must copy Input.ini from inside your project to the build directory.
The paths and default bindings are listed below. Input.ini does not copy into the directory by itself. The default bindings are shown below for your convenience.

Modifying Menu Buttons Example: Removing The Local Split Screen Button

Open the PlayGameSubMenu widget located here:
/Cardinal/MainMenu/Blueprints/UI/Submenus/PlayGameSubMenu.PlayGameSubMenu'

To change the names of the buttons:
Open the Designer tab on the Widget and then navigate to SettingsButtonsLine in the Hierarchy.
In the Details tab and in the Default section and then under ButtonsNames you will see an array of the names.
Change these names to change the button names.

To change the functions of the buttons:
Open the Graph tab in the widget.
Open the function called OpenDetailsContainer.
There you will see a SwitchonInt that controls each button in order from 0 to 4. This is where the button's actions are performed in order of their name listed in the array. (Like OpenMap and so on)

To remove the Local Split Screen Button:
Remove the button name in the array (Array item 1)
Then move the pins from switch on int to adjust for the order change. (So 2 now goes to 1, 3 to 2, and 4 to 3)

Windows US Keyboard Default Input Bindings

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Inside Project Directories:
\Saved\Config\Windows\Input.ini and Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\Input.ini and \Config\DefaultInput.ini
Inside Packaged Game Directory:
\WindowsNoEditor\CardinalMenu\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\Input.ini

Input.ini Default Windows Bindings:
[/Script/Engine.InputSettings]
ActionMappings=(ActionName="Jump",Key=SpaceBar,bShift=False,bCtrl=False,bAlt=False,bCmd=False)
ActionMappings=(ActionName="Menu",Key=M,bShift=False,bCtrl=False,bAlt=False,bCmd=False)
AxisMappings=(AxisName="Backward",Key=S,Scale=-1.000000)
AxisMappings=(AxisName="Forward",Key=W,Scale=1.000000)
AxisMappings=(AxisName="LookDown",Key=None,Scale=1.000000)
AxisMappings=(AxisName="LookUp",Key=MouseY,Scale=-1.000000)
AxisMappings=(AxisName="TurnLeft",Key=MouseX,Scale=1.000000)
AxisMappings=(AxisName="TurnRight",Key=None,Scale=-1.000000)

[/Script/Engine.Console]
HistoryBuffer=mexit
HistoryBuffer=exit

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Known Bugs:

(To view the known bugs, click the button below.)

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Bug: Client Returning to "Main Menu" can't join another game.
Fix: Fixed 08/07/2016 at Changeset - a1943cb579fc

Bug: The Editor's Play In Viewport option does not stretch the menu title bar all the way to the edge of the screen on some resolutions
Fix: Use Play In New Editor Window

Bug: Split screen menu cannot be scaled to overlay on the calling player's screen
Fix: Unknown, possibly in future engine release

Bug: Player input control mappings are not in the correct order
Fix: The engine re-orders inputs, change them to alphabetical order in your DefaultInput.ini

Bug: Packaged game builds lose default control bindings
Fix: Packaging does not copy Input.ini by itself. See "Deploying Packaged Builds" above

Bug: Cannot host a session after importing project files
Fix: Make sure BP_GameInstance is set in your game mode

Bug: Joining players in PIE spawn as spectators and not pawns
Fix: Make sure Auto Connect To Servers is not checked under Play -> Advanced Settings -> Multiplayer options

Bug: Some listen servers do not respond to ping, instead respond with "?"
Fix: Listen server host's network configuration (firewall or router) do not respond to ICMP Pings, likely due to host's configuration. To show pings, host's router must respond to ICMP Pings. Many routers have this disabled by default.

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Howie

It doesn't seem like the server lines update the number of players that are in a server, you just set TOTPLAYING to 1 and then it never gets updated. Am I missing something?

Howie

It doesn't seem like the server lines update the number of players that are in a server, you just set TOTPLAYING to 1 and then it never gets updated. Am I missing something?

Thaddeus

The logic for the total players has to be put into game state and the Steam session has to be updated. We haven't included that logic as of yet. (Just like level transitions and so on) Basically the online session gets broadcasted once when you create the server and the gamestate never updates it.

It's not too hard to implement. You just need to count the number of players in your game and update the online session to reflect this every time someone joins and leaves the game.

We are working on a game right now. When I implement that into our game I will copy the BP nodes into the Cardinal Menu project and share it. It just hasn't been built yet.

Thanks for trying the project!

Thaddeus

I should probably mention that in the documentation. I hope to have that feature implemented in a month or so.

Howie

Thanks Thaddeus, appreciate the explanation. I've been working on my own game myself and tried getting the current players in a server just by dragging a "Get Current Players" function off the find sessions advanced results which works for LAN but always returns as 1 for some reason with Steam. I'll have to try updating it manually like you described above.

Howie

Thanks Thaddeus, appreciate the explanation. I've been working on my own game myself and tried getting the current players in a server just by dragging a "Get Current Players" function off the find sessions advanced results which works for LAN but always returns as 1 for some reason with Steam. I'll have to try updating it manually like you described above.

Thaddeus

We just tested 4.13 and the persistent graphics settings need to be reworked. We will probably migrate away from the MainMenuLib plugin. The update may take a while. So far no other bugs have been discovered outside of minor depreciated blueprint functions.

Thaddeus

We released the project for 4.13 today. I'm not quite sure if the graphics settings will cause issues but so far I've experienced no issues. We will probably slate that fix for the next engine version. Please report any bugs you find.

Thaddeus

We released a new version. This release includes a simple single player button (as requested), cleans up some of the debug printing to console, and includes a simple map loading video.

Guest

Why ping steam 9999 ?

Thaddeus

Guest said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:

Why ping steam 9999 ?

There's a bug with the engine that causes that. We are waiting until it's fixed. (Hopefully soon)

Guest

@Thaddeus-Delude Thanks for the reply

Thaddeus

The project has been released for Unreal Engine 4.14 today. So far there have been no reported bugs. Please let us know if you find any.

KRushin

Great work! I have been playing around it and works quite well! Out of curiosity, have you gotten this to work for a dedicated server? While i have gotten dedicated servers working in other scenarios ( Null OSS) can't seem to get one to work with Steam.

KRushin

Great work! I have been playing around it and works quite well! Out of curiosity, have you gotten this to work for a dedicated server? While i have gotten dedicated servers working in other scenarios ( Null OSS) can't seem to get one to work with Steam.

Thaddeus

Thanks. I've had a lot of trouble getting it to work with Steam. It's possible but I've been waiting to see if it gets easier with new engine releases.

JC

Great work! Will there be an update to UE version 4.15? Thanks!

JC

Great work! Will there be an update to UE version 4.15? Thanks!

Thaddeus

JC said in Community Project | Cardinal Menu System Instructions, Help, and Discussion:

Great work! Will there be an update to UE version 4.15? Thanks!

AdvancedSessionsPlugin was reporting some problems with 4.15. Pretty soon 4.15 we will release a 4.15 version.