Overview - Presence essentials - (Unreal Engine module)

Last updated on March 24, 2025

Introduction

Knowing who's online is makes it easy for players to invite friends to join them in a match. In this module, you will learn how to display a player's presence status.

Prerequisites

In order to complete this module, you will need:

• To have completed the following module:

  • Friend list

• The Byte Wars tutorialmodules branch checked out in your local Byte Wars Unreal project repository.

• To have force enabled this module by adding the following code to the Config/DefaultEngine.ini file:

  [AccelByteTutorialModules]
  +ForcedEnabledModules=TutorialModule:PRESENCEESSENTIALS
  ...

Learning objectives

At the end of this module, you will know how to implement:

• Querying players' online statuses.
• Displaying players' online statuses.

Preview

At the end of this module, your project will look like the image below with the following logs:

LogPresenceEssentials: UPresenceEssentialsSubsystem_Starter::OnSetPresenceStatusComplete Success to set presence status for user: <logged-in player user id>
LogPresenceEssentials: UPresenceEssentialsSubsystem_Starter::OnGetPresenceComplete Success to get presence for user: <other player user id>