Assign alternative pawn to first player (networked)

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I’d like the first player who joins a game to be assigned a particular pawn class, and every player after that to be assigned the default pawn. Any ideas?

2

This did work in the editor (did not test in standalone game)

FooGameMode.h

UCLASS(minimalapi)
class AFooGameMode : public AGameMode
{
	GENERATED_BODY()

public:
	AFooGameMode();
    virtual UClass *GetDefaultPawnClassForController_Implementation(AController *InController) override;

public:
    UPROPERTY(EditDefaultsOnly)
    TSubclassOf<ACharacter> SecondClass;
};

FooGameMode.cpp

UClass*AFooGameMode::GetDefaultPawnClassForController_Implementation(AController* InController)
{
	if (NumPlayers <= 1 && SecondClass)
		return SecondClass;

	return Super::GetDefaultPawnClassForController_Implementation(InController);
}

Now in the editor create a GameMode blueprint that inherets FooGameMode and set it as default game mode.

Edit(Top Left corner)->Project Settings->Maps & Modes(Under Project on the left)

(Under Default Modes)

set Default GameMode & Global Default Server Game Mode (press the down arrow)

3

Thanks, that worked nicely. I ended up extending it to decide character class on login, so that the same pawn class is used for player1 when they respawn.