Kismet and Unrealscript

[Tsepeche]

Say, I'm currently working on a color modifier and as usual I'm probably just over-thinking a really simple solution here probably, but is there some way to edit a material instance with kismet and save it as the new instance that way when my car uses the instance it instances the new color instead of the old one? So far I can change the color just can't get it to save it...
or would I have to find some way to do this in Uscript?

[Tsepeche]

*bump* anyone? I've found code of the custom character from ut3, and currently looking through it atm, but suggestions or an idea are welcome. Thx in advance if anyone has one.

[IrishKilter]

Why not just create multiple colors, save it in the package, and then use Unreal Script/Kismet to randomly assign that color varation VIA the different materials?

[Tsepeche]

Well yea, that's come across my mind as well, but I'd have to do this for every single vehicle that I planned on implementing. It just seems like there's an easier way to do this, but the main problem is, saving that information to a custom class... But since I have the source to ut3's custom character data and preview code, I won't be as clueless =)

[unusualbob]

Take a look at how UT did their team colors. They use a material instance and set the color depending on the team you are on. I think they do have separate materials for each team though.

[Tsepeche]

/* Color
Yea they do have separate MIC's for each team. If I can modify the MIC in kismet and somehow save that to the custom character data, it'd be good.
*/

/* Saving changes
I have no idea how epic did it with their custom character in UT3. The only thing I saw with kismet in their frontend level was just matinee sequences that just controlled the camera.. Nor could I get a straight answer out of their preview or data source code for the custom character. Anybody who's looken through that code and knows what happens or knows how they save the changed meshes, could you share your knowledge on this matter to help me and any others wanting to know how to get custom characters made. A hint, or anything will suffice for me. Thx in advance
*/

[Blade[UG]]

UT3 had a lot of custom native code for dealing with the character stuff.

There's really not much of a way to save data for individual objects, besides using the config() stuff.

[Tsepeche]

Yea so I've noticed, I just found two resources on the UDN website, one for the config files and the other for a save system which uses config files since it directed me there first if I wasn't familiar with it. So I'm sure I'll get this down for saving items if they're changed.