Unreal Multiplayer Course - Section 3 - Steam Multiplayer

Connect your games P2P over steam. This game introduces Unreal's Online Sub-System (OSS) and shows you how to use it with the Steamworks API. By the end of the section, you will be able to connect player through Steam lobbies.

0 Introduction to Steam Multiplayer

• We overview the section topic.

1 Getting The Steamworks SDK

• Introducing Steamworks.
• Downloading the Steamworks SDK.
• Steamworks and the Online Sub-System.

2 Building SpaceWar In Visual Studio

• Introducing the Steamworks example project.
• Updating the project.
• Downloading & installing DirectX SDK.
• Fixing the build errors.

3 Building SpaceWar In Xcode

• Introducing the Steamworks example project.
• Applying recommended settings.
• Running with Steam.

4 Testing Steam Lobbies

• Finding a testing partner.
• Testing servers.
• Testing lobbies.

5 The Online Sub-System

• Importing PuzzlePlatforms.
• Capabilities of Online Sub-Systems.
• Including the OSS module.
• Getting a pointer to the sub-system.

6 NULL Sub-System For Testing

• Role of the NULL sub-system.
• Configuring the NULL service.
• Printing the current service name.

7 Memory Management In C++

• Stack vs Heap.
• Manual memory management.
• Reference counting with TSharedPtr.
• Garbage Collection of UObjects.

8 Creating Online Sessions

• Creating a session.
• Asynchronous operations and delegates.
• Creating a session on host.

9 Destroying Online Sessions

• Asynchronous destruction.
• Checking if a session exists.
• Destroy the session if we need to.

10 Finding Online Sessions

• FindSessions and TShareRef.
• Handling OnFindSessionsCompleteDelegates.

11 Query Parameters & Session Settings

• Configuring Session Settings.
• Adding query parameters.
• Iterating over a TArray

12 Lists Of Widgets With ScrollBox

• Introduction to the ScrollBox.
• Creating a row widget.
• Add rows in C++.