Which came first? Player controller or Pawn

[Cody Lavery]

im looking to find which spawns which. i need to make a new player controller that doesnt spawn the pawn until a certain event in the games progression.

but i havent been able to find where the pawn is created, so i dont know if the player controller spawns the pawn or if the pawn spawns the player controller.

if any one knows where to look, please tell me. thats all i need.

[meowcat]

The playercontroller comes first (GameInfo class, Login function). The new player controller is sent to one of two states (spectating or attract). The 'Restart' function then handles spawning a pawn for the player controller. Of course you can disassociate a pawn from its player controller at anytime as well though...

[Cody Lavery]

hey thanx...

is there a place that manages the player controllers movement, i really want to have the camera move like how it does when spectating... but where is the movement calculated .. or is it in one of those c++ src files?

i assume your class based gameplay has a gui page

how do you make a gui page open up on the screen, do you have any pointers or some magic functions you know about?

[meowcat]

The player BaseSpectating state has the info for how it moves (kind of like flying but with less instantaneous direction change). The main difference being that once in control of a pawn, the native code actually calls the move/movesmooth etc function based on the pawn's physics type etc.

I do have a GUI screen that comes up upon button press, and actually I had originally gotten help on it from EvilDrWong over on the WoD Mod Pod forums at BU since he had one for his Half Cocked mod. Basically I just have a player bind a key to a 'mutate showMyMenu' function which my mutator then interprets and opens up the menu on the controller sender's screen like this:

function Mutate(string MutateString, PlayerController Sender){
	if(MutateString~="ShowYarmPSelect"){
		Sender.ClientOpenMenu("yarm.MenuMidGame_yarmClass");
	}
	if ( NextMutator != None )
		NextMutator.Mutate(mutatestring, sender);
}

and then just bind a key to 'mutate ShowYarmPSelect'

[Cody Lavery]

hey thanx for your help man, i didnt know where to look exactly so youve really helped by pointing me in the right direction. with some luck i wont have to ask any questions for a while.

[meowcat]

If you do have any other questions feel free to ask. UT2k4 (and some UT99) is about all I can help with now, no UT3 for me.