Zombies at boltons

[gaz661]

* a couple of the zombies appeared to spawn from thin air, and some of the animations meant the zombies animated through the wire mesh windows, which broke the realism a bit.

I literally have only spent a couple of hours bringing the genesis map up to current standards and putting zombies in.of coarse that zombie wont spawn in front of you,and a couple of times you see them change shirt when shot with the shotgun,its all easily fixed and just requires a bit of time-that most precious resource.

there are several ways to stop the anims from penetrating the meshes,most likely I will add a blocking volume to the doors,they currently use per poly collision so you can shoot throught the wire mesh windows.im just about to see if using the phys asset for collision on the pawn will work as its much less work and I find no performance loss when doing so.

[gaz661]

no luck,looks like blocking volumes it is.

[Snipe34]

Every time I look you make good progress on your improvements

AI pushing through doors/walls is a problem I've noticed on UT2004 mods and hasn't improved much from what you're pointing out there. I would suggest doubling/trebling door thickness unless you can fix that collision.

[majic12]

Realy cant add much comment as everyone said what i was going to.I dont have experience with ai but maybe a part solution coud be if they start to consider walls as covers.I saw this tutorial http://www.digitaltutors.com/lesson/31658 all in kismet that makes cover ai for bots.I supose a cover thing coud be used for the zombies to switch to idle animation or something when close to walls.

Looks great.Can you explain only the principle behind the flamethrower with a few words?And another quick question.Is the laser sight a 3d cylinder attached to the ak47 or is it some particle effect?

[gaz661]

laser sight is a ribbon particle system attached to the weapon.

with the flame thrower I guess you mean how the zombies catch fire when running through the flames.

class fire_Volume extends DynamicPhysicsVolume
placeable;

var	CylinderComponent		CylinderComponent;
var Pawn P;
var() int DamageAmount;

simulated event PostBeginPlay()
{
	Super.PostBeginPlay();
        SetTimer(5.0f,false,nameof(destroy1));
	SetCollision(bEnabled, bBlockActors);
}


simulated event Touch(Actor Other, PrimitiveComponent OtherComp, Vector HitLocation, Vector HitNormal)
{
	super.Touch(Other, OtherComp, HitLocation, HitNormal);
	`log("Volume: hot hot hot");
	///WorldInfo.Game.Broadcast(self, "hot hot hot" ); ///sends console message
	///P.Health -= DamageAmount;
	///HurtRadius(1.0, 50.0, class'UTDmgType_Barrel', 50.0, Location,,, True);
	SetTimer(7.0f,false,nameof(destroy1));
}

simulated function destroy1()
{
       destroy();
}

defaultproperties
{
        bStatic=false
	bNoDelete=false
	bCollideActors=true
	bCollideAsEncroacher=false
	Physics=PHYS_None
	bNoEncroachCheck=false
	CollisionType=COLLIDE_TouchAll


        Begin Object Class=RB_RadialImpulseComponent Name=CollisionSphere
		AlwaysCheckCollision=true
		CollideActors=true
		ImpulseRadius=300
		ImpulseStrength=0
	End Object

	Components.Add(CollisionSphere)
	///CollisionComponent=CollisionSphere


	begin object class=DrawSphereComponent name=DrawSphere
		SphereRadius=25
		bDrawWireSphere=true
		HiddenGame=false
		HiddenEditor=false
		bIgnoreOwnerHidden=true
	end object
	///Components.Add(DrawSphere)
	
	Begin Object Class=CylinderComponent Name=CollisionCylinder
		CollisionRadius=+0054.000000
		CollisionHeight=+0078.000000
		BlockNonZeroExtent=true
		BlockZeroExtent=true
		BlockActors=true
		CollideActors=true
	End Object
	CollisionComponent=CollisionCylinder
	CylinderComponent=CollisionCylinder
	Components.Add(CollisionCylinder)
	
	
	DamageAmount=25
}

and the in the projectile class

var UTAvoidMarker FearSpot;

simulated event Destroyed()
{
	Super.Destroyed();

	if (FearSpot != None)
	{
		FearSpot.Destroy();
		Spawn(class'fire_volume',,,);
	}
}

simulated function ProcessTouch(Actor Other, Vector HitLocation, Vector HitNormal)
{
	if (DamageRadius > 0.0)
	{
		Explode( HitLocation, HitNormal );
		Spawn(class'fire_volume',,,);
		///Spawn(class'UTEmit_ShockCombo',,,);
	}
	else
	{       Spawn(class'fire_volume',,,);
		Other.TakeDamage(Damage,InstigatorController,HitLocation,MomentumTransfer * Normal(Velocity), MyDamageType,, self);
		Shutdown();
	}
}

when the projectile hits the floor or wall it spawns a fire_volume which then in turn destroys itself after a set time,the same time that the projectile explosion(or flame in this case)lasts.

then you need to tell the pawn to react to the fire_volume.

in your pawn.uc

event Touch (Actor Other, PrimitiveComponent OtherComp, Object.Vector HitLocation, Object.Vector HitNormal)
  {
     

      if(fire_volume(Other) != None && canburn ==true)
        {
            PlaySound(burning, true);
            Mesh.SetMaterial(0, Material'CH_boltons_workers.Materials.boltons_zombie_m1_burnt');
            customtimedilation=1.3;
            bodysmoke.activateSystem();
            SetTimer(5.0f,false,nameof(burntodeath));
            FullBodyAnimSlot.SetActorAnimEndNotification(true);
            FullBodyAnimSlot.PlayCustomAnim('rage', 1.0, 0.05, 0.05, true, false);
            boltonspc.displaycremated();
            canburn=false;
        }


    }

obviously this is what my zombies do but you just replace the stuff in the pawn with yours.

[majic12]

Thanks for the info Gaz

[gaz661]

no problem,there are so few of us left might as well share the wealth.

[gaz661]

thread has moved to the new forums.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/show...ltons-incident

see you all there and thanks for the support.

[frankit]

Thanks for all the help and encouragement dude. Good luck with Boltons and see you on the other side...