UDK and SimplePawn, groundspeed has no effect?

[Graylord]

So I started using UDK about 2 years ago now, then changing the pawn speed was simply to set the groundspeed.

However, now no change is present when I set the groundspeed to something else if I'm extending from either UDKPawn or SimplePawn.
How do you set their speed now?

[reinrag]

in default properties then it's

GroundSpeed=number

but in function i don't know if it works for UDKPawn but for UTPawn i would do it this way it works for me

UTPawn(Owner).GroundSpeed *= number ;

anyway i don't know if it will work for you but it does for me and i use an old version of UDK so perhaps they changed a little bit i'm not sure anyway

[Graylord]

As I said, groundspeed does absolutely nothing.

[reinrag]

That's weird it should work already extended UDK and i could set the groundspeed on the default properties what version of UDK you using ?

[Graylord]

07 2011, and 09 2011

[reinrag]

Alright can't test on this pc right now as i use 2011-05; i've got the 2012-01 on my other pc (which is far away) i ain't home, so tonight i'll test it and bump on here if it works or not
in the meantime someone that tests it before me will hopefully post here

[ADF86]

Are you changing AccelRate as well, or just GroundSpeed?

[Derp]

I seem to be having the same problem as well! I extend from GamePawn though, and I see a GroundSpeed variable being declared all the way up in the Pawn class. I have no idea why it wouldn't be working

[Blade[UG]]

Are you sure your classes are being used? Groundspeed is technically the -maximum- speed that you can move at in phys_walking, but the default code also allows you to quite quickly get up to groundspeed

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[reinrag]

Tested it right now ... Didn't know you are right i extend UDK and in my pawn i wrote Groundspeed=500 then i wrote Groundspeed=+500 still didn't do any effect even if i wrote GroundSpeed=000.000020 or GroundSpeed =+000.000020 it would do no effect, is GroundSpeed broken in UDK, ? in UT it works i tried it a few months ago and it worked with the same version than i have 01-2012, weird thing to do be honest,

[sbetween]

I used to have this problem too, but it disappeared after I created a collision cylinder, not sure if its related but thats what I did. Or it could be that I forgot to define the Pawn class in my GameInfo or something.

Anyway, it works for me, I didn't even defined ground speed in default properties, I just have a sprint function that makes it groundspeed *= 3 when sprint button is held. It works on 2011-12, 2012-02 and 2012-03.

Here's the all code I have related to groundspeed

exec function runToggle()
{
	bRunToggle = !bRunToggle;

	if (bRunToggle)
	{
		Pawn.GroundSpeed *= 3;
	}
	else if (!bRunToggle)
	{
		Pawn.GroundSpeed /= 3;
	}
}

exec function sprint()
{
	Pawn.GroundSpeed *= 3;
}

exec function stopSprint()
{
	Pawn.GroundSpeed /= 3;
}

This is inside my player controller and it works just fine.

[rquester]

Graylord
Search trough your code: maybe somewhere in Tick etc. GroundSpeed is changed. For example, in function with out parameter...

[Graylord]

GroundSpeed is only set once in my case, and that's in the default properties.
And my classes are definitely being used.

[gironecna]

Have you tried doing a full recompile of the scripts using the front end, "UnrealFrontend.exe"?
A couple months ago an install of UDK was giving me similar trouble, and using the front end to force rebuild all scripts worked.

It's still a very odd issue you've been having. Does setting GroundSpeed using the console do anything for you?

[Graylord]

It does not.

Compiling is not the issue, as other changes in the same classes are working properly.

A colleague of mine who is using pretty much a fresh install (really just some levels and models added) of UDK 09, 2011 and is having the exact same issue.