HEALTH

[MEMOTRON]

What's up, I find the Unreal Editor too hard to use so I just edit maps to increase their difficulty by adding in 200 or so enemies.

What I was wondering is how to increase the players starting health?

Also how to make armour and items like superhealth respawn?



This is so I can play the maps co op.


cheers!

[GreatEmerald]

For item respawning, it's a setting in Unreal.ini. As for increasing the health, you'll need to write a mutator for it, I think.

[MEMOTRON]

Thanks, how do I write a mutator?

And will it work for all people in the co op game if i change it to respawn?

[Hellkeeper]

If you have any question regarding the editor, feel free to ask them, someone will answer. It's not that complicated once you undestand a couple of concepts.

[GreatEmerald]

About the mutator, well, that involves a bit of coding. But it's really easy coding. You have to set up a coding environment first by creating a subfolder in the Unreal folder with the name of the U file that you want to get, inside create a subfolder called "Classes", then create a text document called "CustomHealthMutator.uc" (or any other descriptive, unique name). Then open Unreal.ini, find the "EditPackages=" lines and add a new one at the bottom with the name of the folder you created. Then open your UC file with a text editor, and put something like this in it:

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CustomHealthMutator extends Mutator;

function bool CheckReplacement(Actor Other, out byte bSuperRelevant)
{
  if (UnrealIPlayer(Other) != None) //If actor Other is a human player
  {
    UnrealIPlayer(Other).default.Health = 200;
    UnrealIPlayer(Other).Health = 200;
  }
  return true;
}

defaultproperties
{
}

Then open a terminal window, enter "cd /Path/To/Your/Unreal/System" (of course, replace with the real path), then enter "ucc make", and, if there are no errors, "ucc dumpint YourMutatorFolderNameHere" (of course, replace the last part with what you named your mod folder). Then open the newly generated INT file, and edit the line under the "[Public]" header to contain the name and the description of your mod, so that it appears in the mod menu.

As for if it will work in co-op, yes, it will work as long as you are the one hosting the server.

[BobIsUnreal]

lol you know what funny ,
i tried to make this for him last night on my own ,
and couldnt get it  to work at all and gave up ,
it wouldnt even log the class names , yet it looks exactly like yours except it has config options.

class lazyhealth expands Mutator;
var () int newhealth;
function bool CheckReplacement(Actor Other, out byte bSuperRelevant)
{
log ("nope "$ string(other.name));

              if (other.isa('PlayerPawn') )
              {
              log ("yes "$ string(other.name));
              playerpawn(other).health= newhealth;
            
              }

return true;

}

also in your script , there are brackets missing in the if ( statment) that fail at compile time.

[MEMOTRON]

Thank you everyone, gonna try tonight

[GreatEmerald]

Hmm, perhaps players are not part of the CheckReplacement routine. Perhaps then one could use Level.PawnList to iterate through the pawns.

[BobIsUnreal]

assuming  your not attempting to only change the defualts , witch woulnt effect the already spawned player , if you illiterated tho the pawns ,
wouldn't it be difficult to determine whether or not the player just spawned vs just lost health. you would have to have some sort of referece table that saved that it has been set , then how to detect when the player respawns somehow there is no real way to differentiate in my eyes...

another method would be to use a  actor  to detect there spawn ,
prehaps placed on any playerstarts so they would set the players health as soon as they spawned.. even that it sort of flawwed.( the player can go back and reset there health)

also if you gametype supported giving items , you could have a pickup set the health and delete itself.