VCTF - which vehicles to what team? (and some more mapping questions)

haslo · 01-21-2008, 01:08 PM

Not a level design question, but rather - how do I set what team a vehicle belongs to once it spawns? I haven't found that setting anywhere, and the only way I can enter the vehicles when I'm testing the level in the editor is when I set them to neutral, but there must be a way to assign them to the teams

Another problem I'm having: Is there an easy way to blend to materials on a BSP or mesh surface, like, having one softly blend into the other? Or should I make a material with two opacity maps, both for one texture each, and then multiply that map with the respective texture (if that works, haven't tried)? Specificially, I have a canal that opens up into the open sea. I have a canal water texture, and an open sea texture, and would like the canal texture to transition smoothly into the sea texture.

Lastly, when I want my bots to use lifts, I have to put lift center nodes and lift exit nodes, and then I assign the exits to the center. My question: Are the lift exit nodes on the lift when it stops, or just outside?

Whew, so many questions at once

haslo · 01-21-2008, 01:17 PM

Oups, the VCTF question fixed itself - once there's 2 flags, it assigns them automatically

Is there a way to override that automatic assignment then? Not a problem in my current map, but I'm wondering

JoystickMonkey · 01-21-2008, 05:31 PM

There must be some way to set it to neutral. Open up suspense and see what they did with the manta under the bridge.

share_the_pain · 01-21-2008, 05:54 PM

UTVehicleFactory > bStartNeutral = true

num-finger · 01-21-2008, 09:53 PM

how do i get the surf board to work, i dont see it as a vehicle , and i allways have the trans locator, im missing something somewhere, i havent seen any tut's for it either, thanks in advanced ..

haslo · 01-21-2008, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by share_the_pain

UTVehicleFactory > bStartNeutral = true

Aye, I found that one, but can you move them to the other team, so it's locked for the one the game auto-assigns it to?

Quote:

Originally Posted by num-finger

how do i get the surf board to work, i dont see it as a vehicle , and i allways have the trans locator, im missing something somewhere, i havent seen any tut's for it either, thanks in advanced ..

Haven't seen a hoverboard without a mutator in CTF yet. You can just prefix your vehicle-less CTF map with VCTF though, like VCTF-MyMapName.ut3, that'll automatically give you a hoverboard...

DeadMeatGF · 01-22-2008, 02:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by num-finger

how do i get the surf board to work, i dont see it as a vehicle , and i allways have the trans locator, im missing something somewhere, i havent seen any tut's for it either, thanks in advanced ..

As far as I know the Hoverboard is assigned in VCTF and WAR maps, and the xLoc in CTF.

num-finger · 01-25-2008, 08:33 PM

hehe im such a noob , i had a space in the name of anouther map, caused stuff not to work right ,an i allways loaded that one up first, so when i renamed that one, restarted everything , i went to the VCTF-Map and WalLa,i have a surf board , weird how the space in the name causes many problems, thanks for all your help folks

01-21-2008, 01:08 PM	#1
haslo Moar Pie! Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 86 Downloads: 4	VCTF - which vehicles to what team? (and some more mapping questions) Not a level design question, but rather - how do I set what team a vehicle belongs to once it spawns? I haven't found that setting anywhere, and the only way I can enter the vehicles when I'm testing the level in the editor is when I set them to neutral, but there must be a way to assign them to the teams Another problem I'm having: Is there an easy way to blend to materials on a BSP or mesh surface, like, having one softly blend into the other? Or should I make a material with two opacity maps, both for one texture each, and then multiply that map with the respective texture (if that works, haven't tried)? Specificially, I have a canal that opens up into the open sea. I have a canal water texture, and an open sea texture, and would like the canal texture to transition smoothly into the sea texture. Lastly, when I want my bots to use lifts, I have to put lift center nodes and lift exit nodes, and then I assign the exits to the center. My question: Are the lift exit nodes on the lift when it stops, or just outside? Whew, so many questions at once

01-21-2008, 05:31 PM	#3
JoystickMonkey UP Regular Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Far away from the sun. Posts: 2,174 Downloads: 3 My Files: 2	There must be some way to set it to neutral. Open up suspense and see what they did with the manta under the bridge. __________________ Shoot to kill, aim to please. First to join Club Mathlete!

01-21-2008, 09:53 PM	#5
num-finger Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 4	surf board how do i get the surf board to work, i dont see it as a vehicle , and i allways have the trans locator, im missing something somewhere, i havent seen any tut's for it either, thanks in advanced ..

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01-21-2008, 01:17 PM	#2
haslo Moar Pie! Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 86 Downloads: 4	Oups, the VCTF question fixed itself - once there's 2 flags, it assigns them automatically Is there a way to override that automatic assignment then? Not a problem in my current map, but I'm wondering

01-21-2008, 05:54 PM	#4
share_the_pain 120dB Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,133 Downloads: 20 My Files: 2	UTVehicleFactory > bStartNeutral = true

01-25-2008, 08:33 PM	#8
num-finger Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 4	hehe im such a noob , i had a space in the name of anouther map, caused stuff not to work right ,an i allways loaded that one up first, so when i renamed that one, restarted everything , i went to the VCTF-Map and WalLa,i have a surf board , weird how the space in the name causes many problems, thanks for all your help folks