Cloud Chat
Text chat between the web and in event experience
Experimental - Customers are encouraged to test and use this feature in their experiences, but it may still require some additional support
Overview
The ability to chat on web and in game, including:
Chat from Web to Unreal and back
Works on Mobile and Desktop
Text appears in game above the head
Ability to hide and show the widget, and custom sizing
User name and profile image appending to the message
The in-and-out-experience chat is backed by PubNub. For battle-tested, in-experience only chat, see Legacy Text Chat.
Integration
Make sure you have a safe internal launch context id set up for your editor users.
Configure the variable
Social.Chat.Editor.LaunchContextId
indeployment.json
with this value (see below)
How to enable
Enable
TextChat.UseCloudChat
ingame.json
.Make sure your in-game HUD is set up to use the new chat system
The following settings in game.json
influence the Text Chat feature:
The following deployment.json
influence the Text
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