Scaleform HUD not working

[Airrow]

I have been attempting to get a custom scaleform HUD with health tracking working over the past few days, and have had no luck so far. . . I've followed the http://noexp.wordpress.com/scaleform-hud-tutorial/ tutorials, and via various other finds, have fixed the script for use in the October version of UDK so that I get no compile errors or warnings, yet my HUD does not show up ingame, nor does the original HUD get removed. I can get the flash file to show up via kismet, so I know the flash file itself is fine, I just can't get it to work via script.

I'm just unsure of what I'm doing wrong with my script for it to not be working. Scripting is something I am not very good at, so I'm sure I've missed something, just unsure as to what. I've got 4 script files, as per the tutorial, all of which are in the MyMod/Classes folder at the moment. . .any ideas?


class SFGameInfo extends UTDeathmatch;

DefaultProperties
{
//The class for your playerController (created later)
PlayerControllerClass=class'MyMod.SFPlayerControll er'

//The class for your GFx HUD Wrapper (created later)
HUDType=class'MyMod.SFHUD'

bUseClassicHUD=True


//Required values
bDelayedStart=false
bRestartLevel=false
Name="Default_SFGameInfo"

}

class SFPlayerController extends UTPlayerController;

DefaultProperties
{
bForceBehindView=false

Name="Default__SFPlayerController"
}

class SFHUD extends UTHUDBase;

//Reference the actual SWF container (STGFxHUD created later)
var SFGFxHUD HudMovie;

//Called when this is destroyed
singular event Destroyed() {
if (HudMovie != none) {
//Get rid of the memory usage of HudMovie
HudMovie.Close(true);
HudMovie = none;
}
}

//Called after game loaded - initialise things
simulated function PostBeginPlay() {
super.PostBeginPlay();

//Create a STGFxHUD for HudMovie
HudMovie = new class'SFGFxHUD';
//Set the timing mode to TM_Real - otherwide things get paused in menus
HudMovie.SetTimingMode(TM_Real);
//Call HudMovie's Initialise function
HudMovie.Init();
}

//Called every tick the HUD should be updated
event PostRender() {
HudMovie.TickHUD();
}

DefaultProperties
{
}

class SFGFxHUD extends GFxMoviePlayer;

//Create a Health Cache variable
var float LastHealthpc;



//Create variables to hold references to the Flash MovieClips and Text Fields that will be modified
var GFxObject HealthMC, HealthBarMC;

// Function to round a float value to an int
function int roundNum(float NumIn)
{
local int iNum;
local float fNum;

fNum = NumIn;
iNum = int( fNum );
fNum -= iNum;
if ( fNum >= 0.5f )
return ( iNum + 1 );
else
return iNum;
}

// Function to return a percentage from a value and a maximum
function int GetPercentage( int Value, int MaxValue )
{
return roundNum( ( float( Value ) / float( MaxValue ) ) * 100.0f);
}

//Called from STHUD'd PostBeginPlay()
function Init( optional LocalPlayer LocPlay )
{
Super.Init( LocPlay );

//Set the cahce value so that it will get updated on the first Tick
LastHealthpc = -1337;

//Load the references with pointers to the movieClips and text fields in the .swf
HealthMC = GetVariableObject( "_root.healthbar_mc" );
HealthBarMC = GetVariableObject( "_root.healthbar_mc.bar_mc" );
}


//Called every update Tick
function TickHUD()
{

local PlayerController PC;
local UTPawn UTP;

PC = GetPC();
//We need to talk to the Pawn, so create a reference and check the Pawn exists
UTP = UTPawn(PC.Pawn);
if( UTP == None )
return;

//If the cached value for Health percentage isn't equal to the current...
if ( LastHealthpc != GetPercentage( UTP.Health, UTP.HealthMax ) )
{
//...Make it so...
LastHealthpc = GetPercentage( UTP.Health, UTP.HealthMax );
//...Update the bar's xscale (but don't let it go over 100)...
HealthBarMC.SetFloat( "_xscale", (LastHealthpc > 100) ? 100.0f : LastHealthpc );
//...and update the text field
}
}

DefaultProperties
{

MovieInfo=SwfMovie'FinalHUD.HUD.FinalHUD2'


bDisplayWithHudOff=true
bAllowInput=FALSE;
bAllowFocus=FALSE;
bAutoPlay=True;
}

[Matt Doyle]

I can't support the user created HUD tutorial you've followed, but have you watched video 2 - setting up config files, etc.?

Could be a problem there.

Also, I cannot verify if his tutorial works in later builds of UDK.

[Je'karta]

I have been attempting to get a custom scaleform HUD with health tracking working over the past few days, and have had no luck so far. . . I've followed the http://noexp.wordpress.com/scaleform-hud-tutorial/ tutorials, and via various other finds, have fixed the script for use in the October version of UDK so that I get no compile errors or warnings, yet my HUD does not show up ingame, nor does the original HUD get removed. I can get the flash file to show up via kismet, so I know the flash file itself is fine, I just can't get it to work via script.

I'm just unsure of what I'm doing wrong with my script for it to not be working. Scripting is something I am not very good at, so I'm sure I've missed something, just unsure as to what. I've got 4 script files, as per the tutorial, all of which are in the MyMod/Classes folder at the moment. . .any ideas?


class SFGameInfo extends UTDeathmatch;

DefaultProperties
{
//The class for your playerController (created later)
PlayerControllerClass=class'MyMod.SFPlayerControll er'

//The class for your GFx HUD Wrapper (created later)
HUDType=class'MyMod.SFHUD'

bUseClassicHUD=True


//Required values
bDelayedStart=false
bRestartLevel=false
Name="Default_SFGameInfo"

}

class SFPlayerController extends UTPlayerController;

DefaultProperties
{
bForceBehindView=false

Name="Default__SFPlayerController"
}

class SFHUD extends UTHUDBase;

//Reference the actual SWF container (STGFxHUD created later)
var SFGFxHUD HudMovie;

//Called when this is destroyed
singular event Destroyed() {
if (HudMovie != none) {
//Get rid of the memory usage of HudMovie
HudMovie.Close(true);
HudMovie = none;
}
}

//Called after game loaded - initialise things
simulated function PostBeginPlay() {
super.PostBeginPlay();

//Create a STGFxHUD for HudMovie
HudMovie = new class'SFGFxHUD';
//Set the timing mode to TM_Real - otherwide things get paused in menus
HudMovie.SetTimingMode(TM_Real);
//Call HudMovie's Initialise function
HudMovie.Init();
}

//Called every tick the HUD should be updated
event PostRender() {
HudMovie.TickHUD();
}

DefaultProperties
{
}

class SFGFxHUD extends GFxMoviePlayer;

//Create a Health Cache variable
var float LastHealthpc;



//Create variables to hold references to the Flash MovieClips and Text Fields that will be modified
var GFxObject HealthMC, HealthBarMC;

// Function to round a float value to an int
function int roundNum(float NumIn)
{
local int iNum;
local float fNum;

fNum = NumIn;
iNum = int( fNum );
fNum -= iNum;
if ( fNum >= 0.5f )
return ( iNum + 1 );
else
return iNum;
}

// Function to return a percentage from a value and a maximum
function int GetPercentage( int Value, int MaxValue )
{
return roundNum( ( float( Value ) / float( MaxValue ) ) * 100.0f);
}

//Called from STHUD'd PostBeginPlay()
function Init( optional LocalPlayer LocPlay )
{
Super.Init( LocPlay );

//Set the cahce value so that it will get updated on the first Tick
LastHealthpc = -1337;

//Load the references with pointers to the movieClips and text fields in the .swf
HealthMC = GetVariableObject( "_root.healthbar_mc" );
HealthBarMC = GetVariableObject( "_root.healthbar_mc.bar_mc" );
}


//Called every update Tick
function TickHUD()
{

local PlayerController PC;
local UTPawn UTP;

PC = GetPC();
//We need to talk to the Pawn, so create a reference and check the Pawn exists
UTP = UTPawn(PC.Pawn);
if( UTP == None )
return;

//If the cached value for Health percentage isn't equal to the current...
if ( LastHealthpc != GetPercentage( UTP.Health, UTP.HealthMax ) )
{
//...Make it so...
LastHealthpc = GetPercentage( UTP.Health, UTP.HealthMax );
//...Update the bar's xscale (but don't let it go over 100)...
HealthBarMC.SetFloat( "_xscale", (LastHealthpc > 100) ? 100.0f : LastHealthpc );
//...and update the text field
}
}

DefaultProperties
{

MovieInfo=SwfMovie'FinalHUD.HUD.FinalHUD2'


bDisplayWithHudOff=true
bAllowInput=FALSE;
bAllowFocus=FALSE;
bAutoPlay=True;
}

Ok there are a couple things i'm noticing that you're missing from the code that he provided... dunno if these produce errors or not but....

his code in STGFxHUD


//Called from STHUD'd PostBeginPlay()
function Init(PlayerController PC) {
//Start and load the SWF Movie
Start();
Advance(0.f);


yours


//Called from STHUD'd PostBeginPlay()
function Init( optional LocalPlayer LocPlay )
{
Super.Init( LocPlay );

That part is pretty different, might be causing issues, another thing i noticed was up in STHUD

His code:


//Create a STGFxHUD for HudMovie
HudMovie = new class'STGFxHUD';
//Set the HudMovie's PlayerOwner
HudMovie.PlayerOwner = PlayerOwner;
//Set the timing mode to TM_Real - otherwide things get paused in menus
HudMovie.SetTimingMode(TM_Real);
//Call HudMovie's Initialise function
HudMovie.Init(HudMovie.PlayerOwner);


yours


//Create a STGFxHUD for HudMovie
HudMovie = new class'SFGFxHUD';
//Set the timing mode to TM_Real - otherwide things get paused in menus
HudMovie.SetTimingMode(TM_Real);
//Call HudMovie's Initialise function
HudMovie.Init();


Looks like you're missing the HudMovie.PlayerOwner = PlayerOwner; code.

From my skim over it just looks like you're missing some code in certain areas, a friend of mine just did this tutorial (or one that was almost exactly the same) and the only thing that needed to be changed was all references of getpc changed to getpercentage which i see that you've done.

So it might be that you're missing some lines of code. If you were looking at the video it was hard to read so just in case you were goin off of that here's the link to his code (in case you didn't notice it)

http://noexp.wordpress.com/copypasta-uscript-actionscript/

***EDIT*** One way you could do it is go into the link i gave you and copy and paste it, changing the getpc's to getpercentage, and then since it looked like you were using SFHUD instead of STHUD just change all the instances of ST to SF

[SpacepiG]

Have you added anything else so you can verify that it is actually using your code at all?