The Pro Networked Mounting System (PNMS) primary goal was to solve issues discovered when building a Vehicle or Animal mounting system in a Multiplayer Setting. It is important to know it is not a comprehensive Vehicle System that solves all interactions such as movement and hitting objects with vehicles or mounted animals. The narrow scope of the mounting system is purposeful as its goal is provide a framework for building out the vehicle or animal mounting System specifically for your game's design. The PNMS is designed to integrate into any game as it does not rely upon special Actors to achieve this. Instead it leverages the Dependency Inversion, a design principle, and uses Components and Interfaces for implementation and communication between the various game actors involved.

While building a game with Vehicles and Animal Mounting we discovered that a multiplayer mounting system in Unreal was surprisingly complicated.  During the development of these games significant issues arose in multiplayer that did not exist in single player.  We hacked in several ways to correct these issues but these fixes where often cumbersome.  Ultimately the formula of Actor Attachments, Lag, Animations , and Movement creates a lot of weird behaviors when working in concert with each other.

Download at the Unreal Engine Market Place: Pro Networked Mounting System