Pawn not used

[vixez]

Hey,
When I play the game outside the editor, my pawn is not used.
How can I fix this?

Edit: I changed this aswell:
DefaultGame=SuperFun.CustomGame
DefaultServerGame=SuperFun.CustomGame
PlayerControllerClassName=SuperFun.CustomPlayerCon troller

But it didn't work.

[MillionsKnives]

I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say. If you mean that you've created your own Pawn class but starting the game still uses the original Pawn class, then you'll have to change the class used in the GameInfo. If you're using all of the UT stuff then you'll want to subclass UTGame, otherwise you'll probably want to subclass GameInfo. Then you're going to want to change the DefaultPawnClass to yours.

For example your GameInfo might look like this:

class MyGameInfo extends GameInfo;//or extends UTGame

defaultproperties
{
	DefaultPawnClass=class'MyGame.MyPawn'
	Name="Default_My_GameInfo"
}

MyGame would be used if your files were in a separate folder in Src called MyGame

[vixez]

My pawn is working fine when I use it in the editor (PIE), but when I play the level outside the editor, it's the standard pawn class.

[Contagion]

Are you running through frontend then pressing the launch button or are you using udk.exe and making it run your game? Unless they changed this in the last updates you need to setup a shortcut that runs your particular game... well that is until you change frontend to point to your game.

www.youtube.com/contagiontutorials

Check out basic game setup... a little outdated since the last April update but still should work.

Also

www.contagionentertainment.com

[vixez]

It's just a test level, but this is my issue.

Cooked / When using Play On PC in the editor



"Play from here" in the editor (this is what it should look like)



So, my pawn doesn't want to load when it's outside the editor.

[McTavish]

Read wehat contagion said, are you using frontend ? Are you setting your defaultgame ?

[vixez]

This is what I've done:

DefaultGame.ini

DefaultGame=SuperFun.CustomGame
DefaultServerGame=SuperFun.CustomGame
PlayerControllerClassName=SuperFun.CustomPlayerController

in my map, I added the game type "CustomGame" to PIE and supported.



I did a Full Recompile.
Now when I cook it I see this (my map is Manor5)

Cooking [Seekfree] Manor5
Failed to find supported game type(s) for Manor5
   Forcing MyGameInterface into Manor5
   Forcing Manor into Manor5
   Forcing AODLara into Manor5
   Forcing NewLara into Manor5
   Forcing UIScene into Manor5

When I start the game that was cooked and packaged I see the default game type, not my pawn.

[McTavish]

In DefaultEngine config do you have ...

[UnrealEd.EditorEngine]
+EditPackages=UTGame
+EditPackages=UTGameContent
+EditPackages=Manor5

Or just the 2 UT lines ?

[vixez]

This is what I had:

+EditPackages=UDKBase
+EditPackages=UTGame
+EditPackages=UTEditor
+EditPackages=UTGameContent
+EditPackages=Superfun

Sicne SuperFun was the pawn
I tried adding Manor5, but it didn't work, as this is the level itself.

[Ultrattacker]

I have a very noob question for u vixez. I have watched a couple HUD tutorials, but none of them covered how to make those little bars you have next to the 100. If you don't mind could you tell me where you learned to do that? Sorry for getting off topic.

[GregC]

I am also having the same problem. In my GameInfo class I have:

defaultproperties
{

	PlayerControllerClass=class'Avalanche.AvaPlayerController'
	DefaultPawnClass=class'Avalanche.AvaPawn'	
	
}

Then in my default game and engine I have

DefaultGame

DefaultGame=Avalanche.AvaGameInfo
DefaultServerGame=Avalanche.AvaGameInfo
PlayerControllerClassName=Avalanche.AvaPlayerController

DefaultEngine

+EditPackages=UDKBase
+EditPackages=UTGame
+EditPackages=UTEditor
+EditPackages=UTGameContent
+EditPackages=Avalanche

I also did what Contagion said to do and made an Exe. which looks like this:

C:\UDK\UDK-2010-03\Binaries\UDK.exe AV-Avalanche?game=Avalanche.AvaGameInfo -log

Now whats weird to in my Playercontroller and pawn class for testing I put this:

simulated function PostBeginPlay()
{
  Super.PostBeginPlay();
 
  `Log("I'm in the controller class");
}

Now my playercontroller class works and prints this out on the script log but not my pawn.

And there is a player start in my level.
Anyone have some other suggestions to try

[McTavish]

Ah sorry I didnt realise manor5 was the map

[McTavish]

Vivex did you move from March to April ?

[Blade[UG]]

If you're extending UTGame, or one of it's subclasses, then have a look at UTGame::SetGameType()

[GregC]

What if you are extending from GameInfo?

[McTavish]

gregC whats exactly your problem ? Are you guys even using frontend at all ? You havnt answered that question ? Does it work launching from frontend or only in editor ?

[GregC]

I have launched front end and it runs my Gameinfo and my playercontroller but it isn't using my pawn

[GregC]

So does anyone have an idea of what I might be doing wrong. I have been trying so many different things and nothing works.

[Blade[UG]]

override the functions that spawn the pawn, and see what they are doing?

[Orindoomhammer]

so what im seeing is that what your doing is starting from the editor and it works fine cause of pie but when playing from an exe file or launching from the front end it does not. there are alot of things you need to set up. first of all your playing on a "DM" map right? or at least one with out a Prefix. which is defaulting to "DM".

GeoDav has made a great tutorial on how to set up so your using your own map prefixes and it defaults to your game. im having the same trouble but i know where its from lol im just to lazy to fix it for now as im not really ready to do so.

[vixez]

Only in the editor, frontend doesn't work.

I also cahnged the DM prefix line to this and did a full recompile:

+DefaultMapPrefixes=(Prefix="DM",bUsesCommonPackage=FALSE,GameType="SuperFun.CustomGame")

Didn't work either, when launching from frontend.

[vixez]

Alright, it now works, but calling my UIScene doesn't.

in the editor, when I press F1 I get a custom UIScene.
after cooking the game, I get the standard UTDeathmatch scene with the bots in it.
This is also the case for Frontend, I get the standard thing aswell.

The UTinput line is this:
Bindings=(Name="F1",Command="PressEscape")


How is this possible?

[McTavish]

Your changing defaultInput and deleting the UTInput yeh ? UTInput is created by Default input and using the UTInput can cause problems, Put a call to log in your "PressEscape" function

`Log("Using Custom Escape Functions");

How did you fix your other problem might I ask ?

[vixez]

I honestly have no idea.

I followed some of GeoDav's tutorials, and suddenly it worked.

It's all working fine now, mysteriously.

[McTavish]

By using default input instead of utinput ?

[vixez]

Yes, that fixed the UIScene

[McTavish]

Not that mysterious then lol, glad its all working now, hope that other chap has been keeping up, you might want to mail him any advice you have on the matter, I think it was similar problems

[vixez]

The mysterious part was the self-fixing pawn.
It's still kinda actnig up tho.

I have two levels
-Manor5
-Ladder

In Manor 5 I first have to click the left mouse button and wait 3 secs before the game starts.
In Ladder, it immediately starts.

dit: that fixed itself now aswell.
I had MAN_Manor5 and Manor5
Only MAN_ did the 3 seconds thing, Manor5 didn't.