How to Set a String in One Function to a String in Another?

[legacy-starfury2004]

Yet another n00b question...

Next step in my project is to pass a string from a ScriptedSequence to an xPawn. Only problem is, I'm not quite sure what the syntax is. Here's what I tried... (a is referencing the xPawn from previous code).

        a.LipAnimationString = AnimationString;

Now, the thought behind this was setting the string LipAnimationString (in the targeted xPawn) to equal the string AnimationString (in the ScriptedSequence). However, I'm getting a compiler error dealing with an actor problem so I'm guessing there's some additional bit of code between the a. and the variable you want to change telling the compiler what you want to do.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I'll post if I find it first.

[legacy-Mr Evil]

a is an xPawn is it? Then it will fail because there is no LipAnimationString variable in xPawn. If you have defined such a variable in a custom pawn then you need to typecast a to your pawn class.

[legacy-starfury2004]

Evil,

Thanks for your comments... I probably should have put more information. Here's the complete chunk of code...

ACTION_StartLipping

function bool InitActionFor(ScriptedController C)
{//start function

    local Actor a;

    if(Target != 'None')
	{//start if
		//Find all xPawns with the name specified in 'Target'
        ForEach C.AllActors(class'Actor', a, Target)
        {//start ForEach


        //Currently bugged, we'll fix this later
        //a.LipAnimationString = AnimationString;
        //a.LipSyncSpeed = LipSyncSpeed;

        a.GotoState('SwappingSkins');

        }//close ForEach

    }//close if

    return false;
}//close function

And here's the pertinent script of the object it is referencing... I subclassed a new xPawn called xSyncPawn and applied the variable.

xSyncPawn

Class xSyncPawn extends xPawn;

//Currently gotta load the texture file where the skins reside... eventually
//the texture file/directory will be set the same as the Skin1 (Head) on the
//xPawn being targeted, so this can then go away.
#exec OBJ LOAD FILE=LipSyncTextures.utx

var(AI) string LipAnimationString;
var(AI) int LipSyncSpeed;
var float HowManySwaps;
var int SwapNum;
var string Phoneme;
var int SwapTime;

state SwappingSkins
{//Begin state

Begin:

state code snipped

}//End state

defaultproperties
{
    LipAnimationString="a";
    LipSyncSpeed=(0.3);
}

So I'm referencing an xSyncPawn I added to the editor and I have defined the string LipAnimationString in the code for the xSyncPawn, however, I'm still getting a compiler error stating that it can't find 'LipAnimationString'.

[legacy-starfury2004]

If you have defined such a variable in a custom pawn then you need to typecast a to your pawn class.

Should have read this closer... I'm not sure EXACTLY what this means (typcasting to the pawn class) but I'll do some research. Thanks.

[legacy-starfury2004]

Did some research (thank you Wiki!)... so I'd be wanting to do something like this?

        //Currently bugged, we'll fix this later
        local xSyncPawn (xPawn);
        MyPawn = xSyncPawn(xPawn);
        if ( MyPawn != None )
        {
        MyPawn.LipAnimationString = AnimationString;
        MyPawn.LipSyncSpeed = SyncSpeed;
        }
        else
        {
        log("Owner is not a Pawn!");        
        }

[legacy-Mr Evil]

Ok, you're getting there. The last problem is what pawn are yo usetting the variables for? In the first bit of code you posetd, the foreach goes through every actor in the level, not just your pawns. In the second bit of code you are declaring a local variable but not setting it to anything in particular (so it will be none).

Since you are doing this in a scripted action I presume that you want the pawn belonging to the scipted controller to be the one affected, in which case you want something like this:

function bool InitActionFor(ScriptedController C)
{
	local xSyncPawn P;

	P = xSyncPawn(C.Pawn);

	//Do stuff with P here.
}

[legacy-starfury2004]

YES! That did it. Here's the final version of the pertinent function (just basically copied your code in).

function bool InitActionFor(ScriptedController C)
{//start function

    local Actor a;
    local xSyncPawn MyPawn;

    if(Target != 'None')
	{//start if
		//Find all xPawns with the name specified in 'Target'
        ForEach C.AllActors(class'Actor', a, Target)
        {//start ForEach

        MyPawn = xSyncPawn(C.Pawn);
        MyPawn.LipAnimationString = AnimationString;
        MyPawn.LipSyncSpeed = SyncSpeed;

        a.GotoState('SwappingSkins');

        }//close ForEach

    }//close if

    return false;
}//close function

That may be just about the last hurdle I have to jump to get scriptable texture-based lipsyncing working. Thanks a ton.