Error in code (I know what it is, but need help)

[music monkey]

This is what I have:

This is in my projectile class and notice the line that checks to see if the object hit is a vehicle and if so it spawns a EMPTime who's owner is the hit actor.

function SuperExplosion()
{
	local actor HitActor;
	local vector HitLocation, HitNormal;
	local int Time;

	HurtRadius(ComboDamage, ComboRadius, class'DamTypeShockTankShockBall', ComboMomentumTransfer, Location );

	Spawn(class'EMPExplosion');
	Time=(Level.TimeSeconds - 1);
	//Time=/*(class'EMPTime'.default.StopTime)-*/(class'EMPTime'.default.StartTime);
	//VehicleMessage
	//VehicleMessage=VehicleMessage$(StopTime-TimeStopped)$" Sec Left.";
	VehicleMessage=VehicleMessage$(Time)$" Sec Left.";
	//endVehicleMessage
	//Spawn(class'ONSShockTankShockExplosion');
	if ( (Level.NetMode != NM_DedicatedServer) && EffectIsRelevant(Location,false) )
	{
		HitActor = Trace(HitLocation, HitNormal,Location - Vect(0,0,120), Location,false);
		if(HitActor.IsA('Vehicle'))
                {
                 Pawn(HitActor).spawn(class'EMPTime',HitActor);
                }
                class'EMPMessage'.default.string0 = VehicleMessage;
		BroadcastLocalizedMessage(class'EMPMessage',0,,,HitActor);
		if ( HitActor != None )
			Spawn(class'ComboDecal',self,,HitLocation, rotator(vect(0,0,-1)));
	}
	PlaySound(ComboSound, SLOT_None,1.0,,800);
        DestroyTrails();
        Destroy();
}

Then in my EMPTime class there is an error:

simulated event Trigger( Actor Other, Pawn EventInstagator )
{
  SetTimer(StopTime , false);
  Owner.bStalled = true; //Error
  log("Got Trigger");
}

It doesn't know that Owner is a vehicle and does have the variable bStalled, so it says Unrecognized member 'bStalled' in class 'Actor.

How would I get around this?

 

[Wormbo]

Use typecasting to tell the compiler that the actor can only be a Vehicle. But make sure you first check that it really is a vehicle.

 

[_Lynx]

To do that you make a construction like that:

Vehicle(Owner).bStalled

That will tell the engine that the owner in this case is object of class Vehicle. Note that there are of course certain rules: The class before brackets must be a child class of the one inside brackets.

If you need to address a class defined as a variable in some other calls the construction will look like that:

TeamPlayerReplicationInfo(Controller.PlayerReplicationInfo).bFirstBlood

P.S. I was typing for too long, Wormbo did it before me. =)

 

[music monkey]

Thank you

I figured it would be typecasting, but I wasn't sure about that. Thank you a bunch.