lobbies_walkthrough.md

Lobbies Demo

This demo showcases the lobby and includes a voice chat interface in a combined demo. The demo functions as a waiting room style lobby where users can create a new lobby or join existing ones, once in a lobby users can communicate through the lobby voice chat.

• The topmost window is where users can create and manage their own lobby.

  • The Bucket ID Is the name or lobby ID used to find the lobby through search functions.
  • The Max Players Drowpdown selects the maximum number of user the lobby will be able to hold.
  • The Level dropdown selects the level the lobby will work on, this is also used for searching for lobbies through search functions.
  • The Permission dropdown selects how user are able to join the lobby.
    • Public Allows anyone to join.
    • Join via Presence Allows only friends to join (Presence is the term used for the entire friends/status interface).
    • Invite Only Allows only users who have been sent an invite from a player in the lobby to join.
  • Allow Invites determines whether or not players in the lobby can invite other players.
  • Presence Enabled determines whether or not to associate the lobby with the presence system.
  • RTC Voice Room determines whether or not the lobby will have voice chat.
  • Anti-Cheat Enabled toggles Easy-Anti Cheat on and off. This will kick cheating players or leave the lobby if the owner is cheating.
  • Create New Lobby Creates and joins a new lobby with the selected settings (Note: With default settings, only a bucket id is needed to create a new lobby).

• Once a lobby is created it will display the Lobby ID and the count id of the owner. The lobby also lists the current user and information.

  • Member Name Displays each user's account name.
  • Is Talking Displays each user's voice activity.
  • Mute Allows players to mute user in the lobby on a client side basis.
  • Kick Allows the owner to kick user from the lobby.
  • Promote Allows the owner to transfer ownership of the lobby to another user.
  • Press to Talk toggles between having push to talk on, and what key to use as the push to talk trigger.

  

• The right window is where users can search for lobbies through an id, level or bucket id.

  • LobbyId Searches by the lobby id as found at the top of the lobby.
  • Level Searches by level, as chosen by the host when creating the lobby.
  • BucketId Searches by Bucket ID, as chosen by the host when creating the lobby.
  • Invites sent from other players will also appear here, with the user who sent the invite's ID and Accept and Decline option

-The Friends tab on the upper right corner opens the friends list. - The Invite button next to each entry sends an invite to that player.

Note

See Epic's documentation on the lobby interface for more information.

Note

This sample includes the UIFriendsMenu. Please see the plugin's documentation on UIFriendsMenu for more information.