states

[Cooban]

Hello, does anyone know if there is a function which will return character back to their previous state. For example if a character is in scout state and then suddenly changes to attack state I need a function or way of returning to the scout state again therefore having virtual memory (sort of).

Thanks

[SuperApe]

A function to do this? I don't know of one.
There is a Actor -> bBadStateCode which should cause an Event called RecoverFromBadStateCode(). I don't know how reliable that is.
But, it seems you could use the Event EndState() to set a BACKUP_State var so you can switch it back with your own function.

[omegabyte]

You could try creating an enumeration that contains IDs for each state you have, then have a variable lastState. Then you could create your own GotoState function like this:

enum StateList
{
     STATE_ATTACK,
     STATE_SCOUT,
     STATE_WHATEVER
}

var StateList lastState;
var StateList currentState;

function MyGotoState( StateList newState )
{
     switch newState
     { 
          case STATE_ATTACK:
               lastState = currentState;
               currentState = STATE_ATTACK;
               gotostate("Attack");

          case STATE_SCOUT:
               lastState = currentState;
               currentState = STATE_SCOUT;
               gotostate("Scout");

          case STATE_WHATEVER:
               lastState = currentState;
               currentState = STATE_WHATEVER;
               gotostate("Whatever");
     }
}

Then, after you've switched to attack mode, when you're ready to switch back to whatever the previous state was, just go MyGotoState( lastState );

I don't think there's any explicit function built into UT that keeps track of the last state entered. You'll probably have to keep track of the state changes yourself.