Unity Steamworks-Leaderboard

Question

I have created an ingame scoreboard, where i want you to be able to see the players who are connected to the server Steam username. So far i've created the scoreboard and everything, the only thing now is getting the steam username to show instead of my "player name goes here" text. I've tried several things but with no success :(

This is the Scoreboard Script:

[SerializeField]
GameObject playerScoreboardItem;

[SerializeField]
Transform playerScoreboardList;

void OnEnable()
{
    Player[] players = GameManager.GetAllPlayers();

    foreach(Player player in players)
    {
        GameObject itemGO = (GameObject)Instantiate(playerScoreboardItem, playerScoreboardList);
        PlayerScoreboardItem item = GetComponent<PlayerScoreboardItem>();
        if(item != null)
        {
            item.Setup(SteamFriends.GetPersonaName());
        }
    }
}

void OnDisable()
{
    foreach(Transform child in playerScoreboardList)
    {
        Destroy(child.gameObject);
    }
}

}

And this is the ScoreboardItem Script:

    [SerializeField]
Text usernameText;

public void Setup(string username)
{
    usernameText.text = SteamFriends.GetPersonaName();
}

}

And the last script:

            string username = SteamFriends.GetPersonaName();

        CmdSetUsername(transform.name, username);
    }

    GetComponent<Player>().Setup();
}

[Command]
void CmdSetUsername (string playerID, string username)
{
    Player player = GameManager.GetPlayer(playerID);
    if(player == null)
    {
        Debug.Log(SteamFriends.GetPersonaName() + "joined!");
        player.username = SteamFriends.GetPersonaName();
    }
}

Answer 1

To achieve this you would need to integrate steamworks to your game. This api will help you retrieve users, achievements, steamworkshop etc. on your game.

To make steamworks work in your game you need to get approved by valve to have your game on steam, for example have it greenlit.

Here is a tutorial with all the information regarding steamworks on Unity3D: Tutorial.

How do I loop through the list of friends and get their name and status?

Hope this will help you understand more about this subject.

EDIT: I found some documentation and it is actually really easy.

Go to this website for more documentation.

EDIT2: Ok so no friends, Sorry for that.

I think you actually have to handle this yourself. Everytime a user connects to the game server add them to a list so you can get them easily. Then just use that list to handle the scoreboard.

• Mennolp