[UT99]DrawText Variable Problem

[ScrollMaster]

Im becoming terribly frustrated because Im getting stuck at such simple coding and I have other example code to look at other mods and I have no idea why it will not work

if I were to put
Canvas.DrawText(Draw this Piece of text");
it will draw it

but when I try something such as draw me the ItemName of your weapon
Canvas.DrawText(PawnOwner.Weapon.default.ItemName);
compiles fine but of no its no there.... why is this... its driving me insane
why is it that when I try to draw variables it doesnt work? am I doing it wrong?

 

[Mychaeel]

Does the log give you any warnings or errors?

 

[ScrollMaster]

no error's no warnings,compiles perfectly but when I runUT nothing shows

and I know the function is drawing to the screen but as soon as I try to get it to draw a varilabe I get nothing... why WHYY!!! wuhuh lol

 

[Ghost3021]

uhh.... u sure dere no errors? hmm....maybe your varialb points to teh wrong area. try dis:

pawnowner.weapon.inventory.itemname

hmmm..leme know if dat wokrs

 

[porkmanii]

pawnowner.weapon.inventory.itemname would be the item name for the next inventory item in the list (after "pawnowner.weapon").

You could try also logging the variable you are trying to draw (to see what it actually contains). Just remember to put in some way of limiting the number of times it logs (otherwise you get a log per tick/frame).

Have you made sure to set the position to draw at before calling DrawText? What about the font (which you shouldn't really need to change) and DrawColor?

 

[Wormbo]

no error's no warnings,compiles perfectly but when I runUT nothing shows

and I know the function is drawing to the screen but as soon as I try to get it to draw a varilabe I get nothing... why WHYY!!! wuhuh lol

Mychaeel doesn't mean compiler errors/warnings. He means log warnings during the game. Check UnrealTournament.log.

 

[Ghost3021]

ok now im stumped. maybe he could show us his code so we could try to compile it and debug it ourselves??

 

[ScrollMaster]

SZ_Compile.Rar
Heres a Compile of my whole file... oh and when you click the link, go Save as
and when you save the name click all files. and save as SZ_Compile.rar because it tries to download with no extention k

 

[ScrollMaster]

uhh so I threw this infront of my postrender. to see if my Pawn has Replication Information..... and and it doesnt? Im guessing this is because my Hud doesnt show up?
Why would it be returing as none? did I remove something estential to replicate infromation to the Pawn?

if ( (PawnOwner == None) || (PlayerOwner.PlayerReplicationInfo == None) )
return;

Anyone have any ideas? I pretty much ripped apart the ChallengeHud