Addon adjustment: Custom Celebration Lines

[Jrubzjeknf]

The celebration lines that show up in the celebration screen, are fun to look at, but after a few games on the net, I sometimes get a little tired of the "That guy says don't do the crime if you can't do the time". My suggestion is that there should be an option and a textbar in the Celebration Addon screen, where you can type your own celebration line (burn, Burn, BURN!!!!) and the option for whether or not using it (Turn custom celebration lines on)

What do you think of it?

 

[The_Head]

I like it. Great Idea. For people who can't be bothered to type you could have some built in taunts.

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

those taunts are already in there.....(%P thightened security on the red team). Bots will use those, not the custom ones. Those are for the human players only

 

[tarquin]

Yeah, nice idea

 

[The_Head]

Nova^ I didn't say it was a bad idea mate. Its a sweet idea. I'm just saying having some more built in ones would also be nice.

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

I think the built in ones are good as they are, you shouldn't have 'burn, Burn, BURN!!!' or something like that as a default. If you want something else, you gotta make up your own. Only dunno whether you should have one field or three, but one field has the advantage that it's easier to use (it doesn't have to randomize) and it identifies you more as a human player

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

*bump

 

[RabidZombie]

What whould happen if you kill yourself? Who would make the messege? Maybie the peeson with the most points on the other team

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

no, then it just shows up as default (Player didn't read the 'aim away from the face'-label). I'd just insert 1 textbox in the addon where you can type your celebration message and one checkbox to check whether or not you wanna use it. Bots will use defaults.

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

Is there a way to decompile the .u files using UCC? Or is there another way? I'd really like to take a look at the code of JBAddonCelebrationScreen, and see what I can do with it...

**EDIT**(ucc batchexport?)

 

[Mychaeel]

Open the .u file in UnrealEd and use the actor browser to browse to the class whose source code you want to view; double-click the class to open a source code window.

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

tried that before, nothing was added to the actor browser. But I'll try again and let you know whether it worked or not. Thanks anyway

 

[Mychaeel]

You'll have to uncheck both the "Use 'Actor' as parent?" and "Placeable classes Only?" checkboxes to have the classes show up.

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

o....ok ^^ TY!!

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

Nope, it doesn't work. I opened UEd, opened actor classes, deselected both checkboxes, clicked on the foldericon to open JBaddoncelebration and NOTHING HAPPENED. Nothing was added at all. I tried to open AngelItenPhysics as well, and again, nothing happened. When I try to open it, I first have to unfold the Object thingy (I'm dutch ) and when I scroll down, there are four things that start with JB, it mainly has to do with the cameras that can follow a player. But I cannot open any other actor class that doesn't show up in the actor browser by default for some reason. Any ideas?

 

[TheSpoonDog]

Uncheck "Placeable classes only" but leave "use actor as parent" checked, then go down and expand info > mutator > JBAddon > JBAddonCelebration, right click > edit script

 

[TheForgotten]

Is there a way to decompile the .u files using UCC? Or is there another way? I'd really like to take a look at the code of JBAddonCelebrationScreen, and see what I can do with it...

**EDIT**(ucc batchexport?)

ucc batchexport JBAddonCelebrationScreen.u class .uc MyDirectory

unreal wiki has a good discription of batchexport

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

Spoon: TY!

Forgotten: TY also! But already figured that out by typing UCC HELP in command

 

[Mychaeel]

Nope, it doesn't work. I opened UEd, opened actor classes, deselected both checkboxes, clicked on the foldericon to open JBaddoncelebration and NOTHING HAPPENED. Nothing was added at all. I tried to open AngelItenPhysics as well, and again, nothing happened.

From what you're writing it seems that you expect the loaded classes to show up somewhere on the top level of the class tree; but that, of course, isn't the case -- loaded classes are added below their parent classes in the class tree. See Unreal Wiki: OOP if you're new to object-oriented programming and class hierarchies.

The JBCamControllerX classes only are listed immediately below Object because they're directly derived from it. JBAddonCelebration, on the other hand, is derived from JBAddon which is a subclass of Mutator which is a subclass of Info which is a subclass of Actor, so you'll have to look for it in Actor -> Info -> Mutator -> JBAddon, not directly below Object.

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

thx mychaeel. Indeed new to coding with Unreal Engine (have done lotsa coding in VB). I'll check out what you said asap