spawning something other than a pawn?

[Acecutter69]

trying to force a gametype to spawn vehicles rather than pawn's. tried replacing the pawn class with a vehicle class but nothing happened, other than I couldnt join the game and not even move.

So i figured I could mutate the add inventory function to spawn a vehicle and force the player to enter it. I am having some sysntax issues I havent been to find a function to spawn the vehicle class, the closest thing I got is a SpawnVehicle(); but it gives me bad or missing expression in UTDeathMatch.

Anyone have any ideas on this?

[Blaaguuu]

I'm sure it would be possible to directly spawn and possess a vehicle, but it would require a lot of changes to the vehicles, so I too decided to just spawn the player as normal, and the vehicle, and force the player into it, and keep them from leaving.

here is essentially what I had to do within my gametypes RestartPlayer function:
-spawn the player as usual
-give the pawn no collision, or do that in the defaults of a new pawn class for your mod
-spawn the vehicle at the player's location
-be sure to set the vehicles team and/or unlock it
-YourVehicle.mesh.WakeRigidBody()
-YourVehicle.DriverEnter(YourPawn)

You would also need to edit a few things to make it so the player can't leave the vehicle.

[Malachor]

Someone from UnrealDemolition, I forget their name, posted this up ages ago.

function RestartPlayer( Controller aPlayer )
{
    Super.RestartPlayer( aPlayer );

    if (aPlayer.Pawn == NONE)
    {
        `log("NULL Player pawn.");
        return;
    }

    SpawnUDVehicle( aPlayer.Pawn );
}

unreliable server function SpawnUDVehicle( Pawn P )
{
    local Vehicle V;
    local vector loc;

    `log("LOG - SpawnVehicle");
      
    if (P == NONE) //NULL safety check
    {
        `log("Null pawn SpawnVehicle");
        return;
    }

    loc = P.Location;
    
    loc += vect(100,100,100);//need to shift the vehicle so it doesn't crush people
    V = spawn(class'YourPackage.YourClass',,,loc, P.Rotation);

    if (V != NONE)
    {
        if ( V != NONE && V.TryToDrive(P))
        {
            //UDVehicle(V).InitUDVehicle();
            return;
        }
        V.AttachDriver(P);
    }
 
}

That's obviously just getting into it of course.

[Xyx]

I think there's something about vehicles that makes them require a driver pawn in addition to just a controller. I tried spawning AIControllers on empty Mantas, but they'd just hop up and down on the spot.

[wanderer120]

Hi all,
I too faced the same issue when i tried change the DefaultPawnClass in extended gameInfo class from UTPawn to UTVehicle_Scorpion.
anyone have any updates on how to get it done?