How do you change the walk speed of your character ?

[Landisama]

Hello community, this is my first topic on the forum.

I'm working on a project for architectural visualization and as the player is a robot in UDK, I need to slow him down a bit to accommodate his walk to the environment.

Does anybody know how should I proceed via Kismet for example.

Thank you.

[Xendance]

console command "setspeed *number*".

[Max Power]

and here's a pic of what that looks like in Kismet, change ToggleHUD to SetSpeed. I like 0.3 It's a nice slow, walking pace. Good for realistic proportioned interiors.

[Jack Ryan]

It works using the following Kismet sequence set up:



I tried it with a level loaded event which would of been more efficient but for some reason wasn't working. If you want to experiment with that feel free (if you manage to get it to work please respond here annotating your success).

Just incase:

Add a trigger to your level
Go into Kismet and right click > New Event Using Trigger_# > Touch
Right Click > New Action > Console Command
Put Touched into In of the Console Command action
Right Click > New Variable > Player > Player
Plug the Player var. into the Target of your Console Command action
Ensure you spawn in the triggers radius (can be adjusted in it's properties) by placing the spawn point within it


EDIT

See above for a better, more efficient way. I'm still learning UDK & Kismet so excuse me ^_^

[ambershee]

It won't work with a level loaded event because the player hasn't spawned yet.

[Landisama]

Thank you everybody, your help is greatly appreciated.
I used the following, it works with New Action > Player > Player spawned as well as Level loaded linking the Level reset as shown bellow.



Thank you

[Zach Lehman]

Another way that should be mentioned is through editing the UTPawn.uc file.

In your UDK folder, go to ..\Development\Src\UTGame\Classes\UTPawn.uc

After opening, do a control+F and in the find box type "GroundSpeed"

There should be 4 occurrences of the word if you're using default UT code, but it's somewhere around line 5460. This is what's surrounding that line:

WalkingPct=+0.4
CrouchedPct=+0.4
BaseEyeHeight=38.0
EyeHeight=50.0
GroundSpeed=300.0
AirSpeed=325.0
WaterSpeed=220.0
DodgeSpeed=600.0
DodgeSpeedZ=295.0
AccelRate=2048.0
JumpZ=450.0
CrouchHeight=29.0
CrouchRadius=21.0
WalkableFloorZ=0.78

GroundSpeed controls the speed of your character movement. Lower that number to slow him down. This is also important to mention because as you can see, it's easy to edit a lot of other properties surrounding the player. All without trying to figure out which kismet nodes and sequences and console commands need tied together.

Note for clarification: after editing this file you have to close your UDK and restart it. It will ask you to rebuild scripts - click Yes. After it finishes, restart the editor a 2nd time to load it up with the changes.

[horoxhoro]

awesome! nice info ...learn something new today..

thanks guys

[Jack Ryan]

Another way that should be mentioned is through editing the UTPawn.uc file.

In your UDK folder, go to ..\Development\Src\UTGame\Classes\UTPawn.uc

After opening, do a control+F and in the find box type "GroundSpeed"

There should be 4 occurrences of the word if you're using default UT code, but it's somewhere around line 5460. This is what's surrounding that line:



GroundSpeed controls the speed of your character movement. Lower that number to slow him down. This is also important to mention because as you can see, it's easy to edit a lot of other properties surrounding the player. All without trying to figure out which kismet nodes and sequences and console commands need tied together.

Note for clarification: after editing this file you have to close your UDK and restart it. It will ask you to rebuild scripts - click Yes. After it finishes, restart the editor a 2nd time to load it up with the changes.

Very good information thank you.

[Landisama]

Thank you Zach

[Alexotronic]

I believe the June update has broken this!

I had the Kismet->ConsoleCommand solution set up.

It seems that the console command does not work (even in game) anymore.

I know they removed the "ut3" movement (running at maniac speeds, double jump etc)

Anyone else experiencing this?!

[Alexotronic]

Also it seems that "Play Announcement" is not functioning either.

I had it set up to where you could enter a trigger volume and text would appear on-screen.

Considering making a bug report.

[taz1004]

I believe the June update has broken this!

I had the Kismet->ConsoleCommand solution set up.

It seems that the console command does not work (even in game) anymore.

I know they removed the "ut3" movement (running at maniac speeds, double jump etc)

Anyone else experiencing this?!

Console commands still work fine for me.

[thepuddleboy]

Not working for me either, editing the values in UTPawn.uc doesn't make a difference either, any progress here?

[JessieG]

Also it seems that "Play Announcement" is not functioning either.

I had it set up to where you could enter a trigger volume and text would appear on-screen.

Considering making a bug report.

Are you using the default gametype the newer versions of UDK start you in? You have to go to view>world properties and change the gametype to one that has a HUD. Without a HUD you won't see those announcements.

[Stealth3k]

Another way that should be mentioned is through editing the UTPawn.uc file.

In your UDK folder, go to ..\Development\Src\UTGame\Classes\UTPawn.uc

After opening, do a control+F and in the find box type "GroundSpeed"

There should be 4 occurrences of the word if you're using default UT code, but it's somewhere around line 5460. This is what's surrounding that line:



GroundSpeed controls the speed of your character movement. Lower that number to slow him down. This is also important to mention because as you can see, it's easy to edit a lot of other properties surrounding the player. All without trying to figure out which kismet nodes and sequences and console commands need tied together.

Note for clarification: after editing this file you have to close your UDK and restart it. It will ask you to rebuild scripts - click Yes. After it finishes, restart the editor a 2nd time to load it up with the changes.

Look everywhere for this information thx zach!

[DevDale]

The console command doesn't work for me. My speed doesn't change no matter what I set it as.

[]Innuendo[]

I think it must be a problem with orthography. Write god instead of setspeed : it's the God Mod and it works easily

[Rapscallion]

I will post this, maybe it's not the problem or maybe it is I noticed that if you use any console command with number like e.g. this - setspeed 0.3 - it won't work. But if you write setspeed 0.30 - it will. Maybe it'll help you. [edit] also may sure you connected player variable to console command node (hold P and click LMB on "Target")

[DevDale]

I will post this, maybe it's not the problem or maybe it is I noticed that if you use any console command with number like e.g. this - setspeed 0.3 - it won't work. But if you write setspeed 0.30 - it will. Maybe it'll help you. [edit] also may sure you connected player variable to console command node (hold P and click LMB on "Target")

Tried that to no avail. It seems to only have a problem with setspeed. I've tried setsensetivity and it works fine and FOV aswell.

[Jamie_h88]

Hi, I tying to change the walking speed for a university project running may 2012. I have tried the ways shown in this thread but non seem to work the player moves at exactly the same way. Anybody got any Ideas?

[Jacky]

If you are using the default game type that comes up when you open the UDK, you can't change walking speed of that one. However, even the console command setspeed works with UTGame.

[Jamie_h88]

If you are using the default game type that comes up when you open the UDK, you can't change walking speed of that one. However, even the console command setspeed works with UTGame.

Thanks that did it. I have also managed to get rid of the gun and the HUD. Bit off thread subject but once the player is walking slower how do I change the sound?

[Jesterofthesky]

Hey guys, this seems to be a recurring problem so i thought i'd post my solution

If you still want to use the SimpleGame mode for your map (under World Properties), you can edit the player move speed my changing the SimplePawn.uc class found in UDK\(version)\Development\Src\UDKBase\classes.

In that file there should be some lines about 1/3rd of the way through that read:

// Set ground speed
GroundSpeed = CastlePawnSpeed;
AccelRate = CastlePawnAccel;

You can replace "CastlePawnSpeed" with your own value, the default speed seems to be around 290, so go higher or lower as you see fit. I assume this variable is set and controlled in another part of the class (or another class) but I haven't been able to find it yet. But hard coding the value here should work

[goncalofsilva.25]

Hey guys, this seems to be a recurring problem so i thought i'd post my solution

If you still want to use the SimpleGame mode for your map (under World Properties), you can edit the player move speed my changing the SimplePawn.uc class found in UDK\(version)\Development\Src\UDKBase\classes.

In that file there should be some lines about 1/3rd of the way through that read:

// Set ground speed
GroundSpeed = CastlePawnSpeed;
AccelRate = CastlePawnAccel;

You can replace "CastlePawnSpeed" with your own value, the default speed seems to be around 290, so go higher or lower as you see fit. I assume this variable is set and controlled in another part of the class (or another class) but I haven't been able to find it yet. But hard coding the value here should work

Another suggestion: if you're aiming for something that can be controlled through Kismet (switch from running to walking and vice-versa, or using a custom value) you can create a custom Kismet node that acts over the Player's Pawn. Basically, just add the name of your Walk/Run function to the "HandlerName" property in your new Kismet node, and in your Pawn class you set GroundSpeed to the values you want.

Note that you can also achieve this by setting the GroundSpeed directly in Kismet (Actor -> Set Property), but this will give you a warning in the Map errors since it's only meant for prototyping...