Displaying messages.

[Sabresire]

New to unreal script and I just want to learn how to test my code in game. Is there any way of commanding the game to print current varibles that I define in the HUD? I guess I can settle for the console screen right now, but I'd like to learn how to display messages in the hud anyway that are from the system.

Even pointing me to a good tutorial on how to give a command in the game or hud and get it to return something in the HUD or even do something in the game would be great.

 

[Brood_of_Evil]

Well, I dunno of any tutorial, but messages in the HUD are handled by the LocalMessage class, which is child of the Info class. As children of that class you'll find all the messages used in the game, like pickup messages, killing spree mesages, specific game type messages likt CTF's, DOM's etc (Yes even console messages). The function to call those messages is (as defined in Actor):

event BroadcastLocalizedMessage( class<LocalMessage> Message, optional int Switch, optional PlayerReplicationInfo RelatedPRI_1, optional PlayerReplicationInfo RelatedPRI_2, optional Object OptionalObject )
{
	local Pawn P;

	for ( P=Level.PawnList; P != None; P=P.nextPawn )
		if ( P.bIsPlayer || P.IsA('MessagingSpectator') )
		{
			if ( (Level.Game != None) && (Level.Game.MessageMutator != None) )
			{
				if ( Level.Game.MessageMutator.MutatorBroadcastLocalizedMessage(Self, P, Message, Switch, RelatedPRI_1, RelatedPRI_2, OptionalObject) )
					P.ReceiveLocalizedMessage( Message, Switch, RelatedPRI_1, RelatedPRI_2, OptionalObject );
			} else
				P.ReceiveLocalizedMessage( Message, Switch, RelatedPRI_1, RelatedPRI_2, OptionalObject );
		}
}

 

[2COOL4-U]

Yeps take a look at the localmessage code Actor -> Info -> LocalMessage -> LocalMessagePlus. There are a lot of local messages there

 

[RestInPieces]

visit www.unrealscript.com for a cool hud tutorial.

 

[Wormbo]

If you just want to print out the current value of variables you should use:

BroadcastMessage("YourVariable ="@YourVariable);

This displays "YourVariable = 12,345678" in the chat window.

 

[ZitherMan]

a good way of displaying all the variables and even editing them are to write
editactor class=yourpackage.yourclass
in the console when in windowed mode (alt+enter). This will bring up a window with all the variables used in that class.