How do I add a simple weapon for iOS?

[Kuda]

Using the default camera set up, how would I bulid a simple gun?

All I want to do is test damage on a fracture mesh with in UDK Mobile.

[Toxicgas1]

I was also looking for this on the forums. The default camera set up is perfect, but I tried a mesh with a camera glued to it head, and coding another to spawn on it's own. I just can't get the coding side of it, the controls either don't work (or go the complete wrong way) or I can't find where to put the code from tutorials. The gun I'm presuming would require a large change from the default to a first person, would it require a mesh with a camera attached?

[Kuda]

Yeah, the more I look into this the more complected its gets.

[Solid Snake]

Fractured meshes are not working on mobile platforms from my current tests.

[Kuda]

You're right Solid, fractured meshes don't seem to work. You can test this adding a fractured mesh to the Jazz mini game.

[Kuda]

Well it seems I may have something,

I found a simple solution.


So, here we have what we're looking for, a gun in the player's hands.



This is what Kismet would look like, it's very simple.


Here are the cords to get the gun aligned correctly.




Now, the only problem I'm having is keeping the angle of the gun to aligned with the Stick Look Zone. Left - Right works, just not Up - Down

[Kuda]

Ok so we've got the gun to fire! Now I just need to work on getting the gun to stay with the cam when the player look up or down

[Antoxa2584]

How you made it? I mean fire

[Kuda]

[DeathsSilkyMist]

If you want to do it in code you can still extend from the base classes within Unreal (i.e. the base weapon class).

[Blakeanator]

Did you ever get the gun to move up and down with the player?

Also, stupid question but how did you get the gun imported. I gotten it to work 1000 times before in UDK but Mobile UDK isn't working for me.

Thx

[Toxicgas1]

The screenshots are awesome, thanks for the help.

I've got the weapon attached and moving when I move but I have a few questions.

I'm new to scripting, so how exactly do I attach the weapon to the sequence actor?

Also, this may sound silly, but Kuda what do you mean by Archetype set to "MobilePorjectile..._01." I just attached it to the weapon its self. Could that be why I cannot see the properties for the sequence actor?

Thanks in advance, and sorry if these are 'noob' questions or anything along those lines

[Kuda]

Honestly, I was a complete noob when I made this tread, and this is a very faulty way to put a weapon in the player's hands, to make it look like an FPS.

I'll post a full tut on the correct way in a few days.


Sorry about that.

[Hangman057]

Bump... I just decided to make something else after 2000 pages of reading and 200+ hours of vid tutorials.

[Toxicgas1]

Thanks Kuda, that would be perfect

Hangman057, I'm not sure what you mean?

[RobyLP]

Honestly, I was a complete noob when I made this tread, and this is a very faulty way to put a weapon in the player's hands, to make it look like an FPS.

I'll post a full tut on the correct way in a few days.


Sorry about that.

Could you post the "corrrect way"?.
That would be of great help.
I've been reading and searching, but found no answer.
Thanks in advance.

[Solid Snake]

UT3's weapons now work on iOS. I'd recommend using one of the weapons as a starting base now.

[RobyLP]

UT3's weapons now work on iOS. I'd recommend using one of the weapons as a starting base now.

Yes, i did that, i even modded shock rifle with custom weapon, but game crashes on Ipad, when damage is taken by player(falling, UTPawn shot hits player and so on), it crashes the same way on custom weapon or standard UT3.

Maybe I shall not use UTGame as gametype?. Wich should I use?.
If I use SimpleGame or Framework game, should I code everything from scratch? Could not find many info on UDK Mobile UnrealScript, searched the forum, Goggle, youtube, only the Rabbit Tutorial....
Thanks Solid Snake for your help...

[Solid Snake]

From memory, I fixed this by disabling post processing within UTHUD. My best advice there is to not use UTHUD and use your own HUD extended from HUD.

[Hangman057]

Watch Lexluthor's vids. He got it working a month ago. You have to create a player class in the ini. I tried every kismet workaround myself but it looks like like you have to dig in to the guts of UDK and make her scream.

[OmegaBlue36]

Do you know the name of this video you are talking about?

[Lexluthor1]

Using the default camera set up, how would I bulid a simple gun?

All I want to do is test damage on a fracture mesh with in UDK Mobile.

Its really simple..Fractured meshes aren't supported on iOS though...........
Examine how they did it in the Jazz game,(the gun that is)..
That's what I did and my character has a Glock 26 and an UZI now! The projectile is spawned via the kismet...



Seek And Destroy Games
Tutorials for UDK PC and iOS
http://www.youtube.com/user/lexluthornumber1

[Iritus]

If you're using unrealscript you can add a weapon to the player pawn without a lot of hassle, although getting all the weapon functionality will take a bit more effort.

I extended SimpleGame for my game class, but my PlayerPawn extends UTPawn. This gives you access to the inventory system built in to UT games (your could alternately extend SimplePawn and add the inventory class yourself, but that'll take more time to write, it would however reduce a lot of unnecessary overhead. Your call). Then add a default weapon in the PlayerPawn defaultproperties block. The gun should attack to the player's pawn and move with the camera as you would expect. Tapping somewhere on the screen should activate FireModeNum 0 (left click), you'll have to manually tweak the user interface in order to add FireModeNum 1 (right click) functionality. Additionally, you'll lose most/all of the weapon's animations, as they are called in higher level event functions that don't get called by default in a SimpleGame, but they aren't necessary to actually get the gun firing.

Using this method eliminates the need for any kismet to make the gun work or spawn projectiles. This is great if you plan on using the same pawn in multiple levels, as kismet is mostly level specific.

[Lexluthor1]

If you're using unrealscript you can add a weapon to the player pawn without a lot of hassle, although getting all the weapon functionality will take a bit more effort.

I extended SimpleGame for my game class, but my PlayerPawn extends UTPawn. This gives you access to the inventory system built in to UT games (your could alternately extend SimplePawn and add the inventory class yourself, but that'll take more time to write, it would however reduce a lot of unnecessary overhead. Your call). Then add a default weapon in the PlayerPawn defaultproperties block. The gun should attack to the player's pawn and move with the camera as you would expect. Tapping somewhere on the screen should activate FireModeNum 0 (left click), you'll have to manually tweak the user interface in order to add FireModeNum 1 (right click) functionality. Additionally, you'll lose most/all of the weapon's animations, as they are called in higher level event functions that don't get called by default in a SimpleGame, but they aren't necessary to actually get the gun firing.

Using this method eliminates the need for any kismet to make the gun work or spawn projectiles. This is great if you plan on using the same pawn in multiple levels, as kismet is mostly level specific.

I have done that already that with a custom pawn extending UTPawn ,(but in third and first person) but found it to be too cumbersome with the additional buttons...The one advantage is the true third person view though with no limit on rotation of the player..I added a button for jump too so it looked almost like the 'Real McCoy' UTPawn...

I had all the buttons hidden on start and then one single button you'd press to un-hide the control buttons because I also had a switch camera button for camera modes,(3 person,1 st person, and over the shoulder 3 rd person) plus a pause and top up health button so the screen became too cluttered with buttons...This way it was almost like an inventory and I suppose you could have a switch weapon button linked into give inventory action in the kismet....

In the end I opted for the what I mentioned above because of time scale and the end user not really caring about the lack of look up and down rotation!

I still have the button Inventory though!



Seek And Destroy Games
Tutorials for UDK PC and iOS
http://www.youtube.com/user/lexluthornumber1

[OmegaBlue36]

In my mind, a third person shooter like gears of war would not fare well on the Iphone because of the controls. Its tricky to move and aim then shoot, then aim again and shoot. I actually don't even like first person shooters on the iphone because its got the same weird configuration.

But the reason i want the third person is for a puzzle game with the gun. Almost like the gravity gun from half life. but with a GoW over the shoulder cam.

@LexLutho1: For your mobile placeable pawn, do you have jump?

[Lexluthor1]

In my mind, a third person shooter like gears of war would not fare well on the Iphone because of the controls. Its tricky to move and aim then shoot, then aim again and shoot. I actually don't even like first person shooters on the iphone because its got the same weird configuration.

But the reason i want the third person is for a puzzle game with the gun. Almost like the gravity gun from half life. but with a GoW over the shoulder cam.

@LexLutho1: For your mobile placeable pawn, do you have jump?

"For your mobile placeable pawn, do you have jump?"

Yes, but I don't use it on the placeable pawn!
The above was for my UTPawn which was fired up by a console command button...The principle would work for my placeable pawn too because I have set the animtree up exactly the same as a UTPawn.....





Seek And Destroy Games
Tutorials for UDK PC and iOS
http://www.youtube.com/user/lexluthornumber1

[OmegaBlue36]

Ahhhhhh.....nice. I didn't even think about that. Thats a genius idea!

BTW, your tutorials are awesome.

[Lexluthor1]

Ahhhhhh.....nice. I didn't even think about that. Thats a genius idea!

BTW, your tutorials are awesome.

Thanks mate and I'm always available for advice if you need it

Sometimes my advice is useless though




Seek And Destroy Games
Tutorials for UDK PC and iOS
http://www.youtube.com/user/lexluthornumber1