Pawn Subclass is spawning Mesh on top of Parent Class's Mesh

[tholmes3d]

This is probably a silly scripting error but here it goes. I have a class called ScientistClass. It spawns a scientist. I also have a subclass of ScientistClass called ScientistDesk. This should spawn a scientist sitting at a desk. Instead it spawns a scientist sitting at a desk, which sits on top of a scientist. Basically it calls both mesh's, animations and all, instead of modifying ScientistClass into ScientistDesk. My first guess is the SMesh variable, because I don't really understand it and I just modified it into SMeshDesk. I didn't write all of this because I'm not that good but I'm tasked with troubleshooting it. Thanks in advance for any help.

This is the ScientistClass

class ScientistClass extends Pawn
placeable;
var DynamicLightEnvironmentComponent LightEnvironment;

DefaultProperties
{
Begin Object Class=DynamicLightEnvironmentComponent Name=MyLightEnvironment
bSynthesizeSHLight=TRUE
bIsCharacterLightEnvironment=TRUE
bUseBooleanEnvironmentShadowing=FALSE
End Object
Components.Add(MyLightEnvironment)
LightEnvironment=MyLightEnvironment

Begin Object class=SkeletalMeshComponent Name=SMesh
SkeletalMesh=SkeletalMesh'Scientist.SkeletalMesh.S cientist_Mesh'
AnimTreeTemplate=AnimTree'Scientist.Scientist_Tree '
AnimSets(0)=AnimSet'Scientist.Scientist_Idles'
bAcceptsLights=true
Translation=(Z=-58);
LightEnvironment=MyLightEnvironment

CastShadow=true
CollideActors=true;

End Object
Mesh=SMesh
Components.Add(SMesh)
groundspeed=150
DrawScale=1.4
}


And this is the ScientistDesk

class ScientistDesk extends ScientistClass
placeable;

DefaultProperties
{
Begin Object class=SkeletalMeshComponent Name=SMeshDesk
SkeletalMesh=SkeletalMesh'Scientist.SkeletalMesh.S cientistDesk_Mesh'
AnimTreeTemplate=AnimTree'Scientist.ScientistDesk_ AnmTree'
AnimSets(0)=AnimSet'Scientist.ScientistDesk_AnmSet '
LightEnvironment=MyLightEnvironment1
End Object
Mesh=SMeshDesk
Components.Add(SMeshDesk)
DrawScale=1.4
}

[klasodeth]

Since your ScientistDesk subclass uses a different object class name (SMeshDesk) than the one in ScientistClass (SMesh), there's no way for UDK to know that it has to replace the base object class. Perhaps changing the object class name from SMeshDesk to SMesh will fix the problem. But maybe it's a better idea to not declare any meshes or animations in ScientistClass. How about making an additional subclass (ScientistStanding perhaps?) and place your SMesh object class in there, similar to what you did for the object class in ScientistDesk. That way, you don't have to worry about either subclass inheriting unwanted meshes or animation.

[ankangronto]

"Begin Object class=SkeletalMeshComponent Name=SMeshDesk"

"Begin Object class=SkeletalMeshComponent Name=SMesh"

You basically having two meshes.

What you should do is:

class ScientistDesk extends ScientistClass
placeable;

DefaultProperties
{
Begin Object SkeletalMeshComponent Name=SMesh

[tholmes3d]

Thanks for the help guys. This is what I ended up with so others can see. They both use SMesh, but I just change what SMesh represents for the subclass.
klasodeth has a good point about having each character be a separate subclass. That seems way better for organization and I'll do that in the future.
I will copy both scripts so others can see.

This is the parent class,

class ScientistClass extends Pawn
placeable;
var DynamicLightEnvironmentComponent LightEnvironment;

DefaultProperties
{
Begin Object Class=DynamicLightEnvironmentComponent Name=MyLightEnvironment
bSynthesizeSHLight=TRUE
bIsCharacterLightEnvironment=TRUE
bUseBooleanEnvironmentShadowing=FALSE
End Object
Components.Add(MyLightEnvironment)
LightEnvironment=MyLightEnvironment

Begin Object class=SkeletalMeshComponent Name=SMesh
SkeletalMesh=SkeletalMesh'Scientist.SkeletalMesh.S cientist_Mesh'
AnimTreeTemplate=AnimTree'Scientist.Scientist_Tree '
AnimSets(0)=AnimSet'Scientist.Scientist_Idles'
bAcceptsLights=true
Translation=(Z=-58);
LightEnvironment=MyLightEnvironment

CastShadow=true
CollideActors=true;

End Object
Mesh=SMesh
Components.Add(SMesh)
groundspeed=150
DrawScale=1.4
}


And here is the sub class,

class Scientist_Notes extends ScientistClass
placeable;

DefaultProperties
{
Begin Object Name=SMesh
SkeletalMesh=SkeletalMesh'Scientist.SkeletalMesh.S cientist_Mesh'
AnimTreeTemplate=AnimTree'Scientist.Scientist_Note s'
AnimSets(0)=AnimSet'Scientist.Scientist_Idles'
bAcceptsLights=true
LightEnvironment=MyLightEnvironment

CastShadow=true
CollideActors=true;
End Object
Mesh=SMesh
Components.Add(SMesh)
}