Seamless Travel And Setting GameMode Variables

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This wiki entry was started a year ago and hasn't been touched since. You might as well just leave again, there's nothing here worthwhile. If you have information on this, feel free to complete the article, but I came here *looking* for information and found what mostly still resembles a template. How useful!

Purpose

The purpose of this tutorial is to provide a guide for using "Server Travel" and "Seamless Travel" to travel between non-streaming levels. This tutorial will also explain how to set the GameMode for the next level as well as set variables in that GameMode.

Anticipated Uses

The most likely use for this guide would be an online multiplayer game where players can form a Party and travel together. This guide also assumes that the levels are not streaming and that the gameplay rules can be changed for any level.

A great example would be the typical FPS online multiplayer game, like Halo. In Halo, players can form Parties and make custom games or join ranked sessions. In either case, any level could be used for a variety of game types (e.g. Death Match, CTF, Infiltration, etc.), any of which could then have various different rules (e.g. Number Of Lives, Time Limit, Vehicles, etc.) Players can also wear different armors. And in some games, these different armors may have gameplay effects, such as a stronger shield ability. So then the question arises, "How do you set the rules for a level, load all player data in that level, and do these securely to avoid cheating?"

Obviously, you have to transfer data from one level to another, because it would be ridiculous to create a new GameMode for each variation. Many suggest using the "GameInstance", since that persists throughout the entire game. But there is a GameInstance class created for each client and one for the server.

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