Changing a level's game mode via user input

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I have a level I wish to open from a menu that can work with two game modes- PlayMode and TutorialMode. I know how to switch between these in the editor’s World Settings, but is there a way to open the level with either of those modes, depending on whether the user clicked “Play” or “Tutorial”?

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Figured out how to use the OpenLevel function’s Options parameter (didn’t notice the option was available :P):

?game=ProtoThree.TutorialMode -game

Where ProtoThree is my project’s name, and TutorialMode is the game mode I wished to use.

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So did you fix your problem? I don’t believe there is a way to change the game mode after the level has been loaded.

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Yep :slight_smile: That’s what I was after. Posting my solution here for the benefit of other people with the same problem.

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Thanks, this worked perfectly for me!

Just to clarify further, since I couldn’t find elsewhere what to pass as the other arguments to OpenLevel(), I used:

  • The return of GetWorld() for WorldContextObject
  • The name of the level you want to enter for LevelName (eg. “/Game/LevelName” if the level is in your projects top level Content directory)
  • false for bAbsolute (since I believe passing true will cause Options to be ignored, and therefore I am unsure if the game level would be loaded, but I didn’t test this)
  • “?game=ProjectName.GameModeName -game” for Options