Smart Multiplayer Ping System

Smart Ping System is an easy to integrate world tagging system that's ideal for co-operative games needing player issued indicators to quickly tag targets or important items.

It features a dynamic selection menu that adjusts to the number of icons and can also change depending on what the player is looking at — auto-tagging enemies or marking loot boxes or drops for teammates.

All icons have a number of customization options; texture, scale, tint, anchor, animations, sounds and peripheral lock (screen edge icons) which are easily defined using data tables and called at runtime using a path. Pings can also be customized to allow them to only appear to specific clients using a flexible conditional logic system. Using this you can set pings to only appear to teammates, in a location, with an item or any combination.

This system consists of just a replicated actor component that's added to the player's pawn; plus an optional blueprint interface for dynamic actor menus. It's intended to be as lightweight as possible and is inspired by ping systems from popular games like Rainbow Six: Siege or Apex: Legends.

Technical Details

Features:

• Ready-to-go multiplayer support
• Pings that are only visible to specific groups, all players or conditional combinations
• Dynamic selection menu
• Per-actor dynamic selection menus via blueprint interface
• Customizable ping icons — texture, scale, anchor, tint, animation and sound using data tables
• Camera center, custom trace or mouse support for RTS style games
• Peripheral/Off-screen icons
• Per-client flood and rate control
• Sticky pings that can attach to moving actors
• Per-client color icon tinting (useful for identifying teammate's pings in multiplayer)
• Widget actor pooling for performance
• Well documented and made with modularity in mind

Number of Blueprints: 9

Network Replicated: Yes

Supported Development Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Supported Target Build Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux