Pawn with random skins bonded to Timer

[mentalhunter]

I tryd many things to make it work but apperantly i am doing something wrong. Anyone knows how to make this work?

[Pravin]

Well, afaik Timer is utilized all over the place in pawn code. The safest way to go would be to make some other class have the timer and skin settings logic... You could always make some new playerreplicationinfo class that sets timer and randomizes the pawn's skin after a duration of time, then destroys itself. There are a bunch of approaches to this, just be warned about overriding timer in pawn subclasses.

[mentalhunter]

Can you give a sample of this? Or is it to hard to post such a code on the forum?

[Pravin]

Uhhhh ok... Here's some psuedo-code because I'm unsure of some syntax..

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class MyPRI expands Playerreplicationinfo;

event postbeginplay()
{
     super.postbeginplay();
     settimer(1.0,false);
}

event timer()
{
     if( pawn(owner) != none )
       pawn(owner).setmultiskin ...
}

Then you just have to set the pawn in question's playerreplicationinfoclass to this new pri class.

[mentalhunter]

and setmultiskin, does that means it will go thru all multiskins filled in the pawn's properties? Ive barrerly ever worked with Replicationinfo, that's why i got so much questions.

[Age]

Simple way without replicationinfo:

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var float Count;
var() texture randskins[40];

function Tick(float DeltaTime)
{      
      Count += DeltaTime;
      if (Count>0.2) // this is the timer
      {
            skin=randskins[rand(40)];
            Count=0.0;
      }
}

[mentalhunter]

Okay, thank you both.

[mentalhunter]

Hm. yours isnt working somehow Age, i don't get any errors, but the skin's aren't working in-game.

[Bane]

I've had very little luck using Tick and Timer inside of pawn (specifically playerpawn; it might be different for a regular pawn). I don't know why, but Tick just doesn't seem to get called at all, and timer has problems because you can only have one timer per object and the pawn code uses it in a few states. I would recommend adding 'simulated function Tick' another class with RemoteRome==Role_SimulatedProxy and use Age's code in there. You'll need to change it change owner.skin instead of just skin, of course, but otherwise it should work fine. It's a simulated function, so it'll be called clientside without any replication.

[mentalhunter]

Okay, thanks ill try that.

[mentalhunter]

I did exactly that, but it still doesn't work, this is what i've got:

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var float Count;
var() texture randskins[2];

simulated function Tick(float DeltaTime)
{      
      Count += DeltaTime;
      if (Count>0.2)
      {
            Owner.skin=randskins[rand(2)];
            Count=0.0;
      }
}

[Bane]

1. Did you set the remoterole on this actor to Role_simulatedproxy, or spawn it only clientside? If you didn't then Tick won't get called.
2. Did you set owner? If you didn't then it obviously won't work. It'd also generate a bunch of accessed nones in your log.
3. what class did you put that code in? what is it a subclass of? I doubt this matters, I'm just curious.

[mentalhunter]

It's subclass is ScriptedPawn. and the code is the queen's. Plus alot of modifications including this one, but this one won't wokr out for me. And at a pawn the Role is automaticly set at Role_Simulated proxy, or do you mean in script?

[Age]

ReplicationInfo, Owner., and simulated function not needed:

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class MyPawn expands ScriptedPawn;

var float Count;
var() texture randskins[2];

function Tick(float DeltaTime)
{      
      Count += DeltaTime;
      if (Count>0.2)
      {
            skin=randskins[rand(2)];
            Count=0.0;
      }
}

[mentalhunter]

I tryd that code before Age, it didn't worked somehow.

[Age]

Forgotten multiskins:

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var float Count;
var() texture randskins[2];

function Tick(float DeltaTime)
{      
      Count += DeltaTime;
      if (Count>0.2)
      {
            skin=randskins[rand(2)];
            multiskins[0]=randskins[rand(2)];
            multiskins[1]=randskins[rand(2)];
            multiskins[2]=randskins[rand(2)];
            multiskins[3]=randskins[rand(2)];
            multiskins[4]=randskins[rand(2)];
            multiskins[5]=randskins[rand(2)];
            multiskins[6]=randskins[rand(2)];
            multiskins[7]=randskins[rand(2)];
            texture=randskins[rand(2)];
            Count=0.0;
      }
}

[mentalhunter]

Wow, AWESOME AGE! It works now, thanks alot! thank you all.

[mentalhunter]

now i got 1 more question, the queen has the ability to spawn baby's to, ive always used the giantgasbag script and it always worked for me till now. This is what i put in there:

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function SpawnBabyGoddess()
{
  local BabyGoddess B;
  local Vector projStart;
  local Vector X;
  local Vector Y;
  local Vector Z;  
    
    B = spawn(class 'BabyGoddess' ,,'',projStart + (0.6 * CollisionRadius + class'BabyGoddess'.Default.CollisionRadius) * X);
    PlaySound(sound'atracefire', SLOT_Interface);  
    if ( B != None )
     {
      B.ParentGoddess = self;
      numChildren++;
    }   
}    

[Pravin]

... you're spawning it at ProjStart which wasn't even initialized to anything. Try setting ProjStart = Location before the spawn. Plus, X doesn't equal anything. You should also call GetAxes( Rotation, X,Y,Z ); and change the 0.6 to 1.2. What all of this will do is 1) start at the queen's location, 2) pick a vector placed about 1.2 times the queen's collision out from it, and 3) choose this vector such that it's where the queen is currently "looking." You also might consider making the second spawn parameter Self so that the queen is the owner of the child (just a thought, dunno if that would have any effect).

btw, that above code with tick is going to execute only on the server and.. change skins around every frame? lol.. might want to simulate that otherwise bandwidth usage might skyrocket.

[mentalhunter]

Lol, thanks Pcube. Omg, i can barrerly believe i was so dumb to locate the Projstart and add GetAxes. It works now, thanks Pcube.