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.