unable to spawn myself in...

[ZodiaK]

I made a level that works nicely, the botpaths work well and all...the problem is i just can't play it myself. I always spawn as a spectator (no, 'play as spectator' is not checked), although if i start a team dm i'm able to give orders to the bots on my team. Please help me out, I've tried everything I can think of but can't figure this one out (although it's probably something really simple). thanks.

[Silencermvm]

Did you assign yourself a team color in the player setup screen? That might be why if your unassigned.

[ZodiaK]

c'mon this can't be this complicated, my first post here and no one answers...

[ZodiaK]

Yea, this is certainly an event related to the specific level. Any other level plays normally. Could there be a setting I could have accidentally changed that would force any player characters to spectate (or something)? Is there a 'botsonly' option that could be switched on for the level (as compared to the 'playersonly' tag)?

[Wanderer]

I'ld just delete all the PlayerStarts and replace them.

[ZodiaK]

I'll give it a try...thanks.

[ZodiaK]

Ok, it didn't work. I removed all PlayerStart actors and made new ones. No effect. However, I found a bit strange line in the log after opening the level in UT; I don't remember it exactly, but it was something like

possessed playerpawn: commander0 (and something)

while openinganother level (dm-brutality][) produced something like this:

possessed playerpawn: TMale1.blahblah

could this have something to do with the problem?

[ZodiaK]

Ok, I finally got it working...

I've been using the bot models under Pawn:PlayerPawn:TournamentPlayer (not sure if that was right) as a measure of the size of things; it's nice to see how big or small a location looks when you place a human model somewhere.

well at some point I had accidentally placed in a 'commander' (probably thought it was the boss model),and that's when the hell broke loose... /~unreal/ubb/html/wink.gif

adding the Commander pawn doesn't seem to do anything (only a 'actor successfully added' message), and it shows up nowhere, but it's there. It took me quite a while to figure this out, but I finally got it removed with a ACTOR DELETE OFCLASS CLASS=Commander cmd.

a word of warning: don't add in a Commander.