Location and rotation?

[Cozmo]

Yeah, it's me again.

There's two things I need, if anyone knows about them.

1. ) Location variable - Is there such a thing? I'm sure I've seen it in the .ini file for MultiDX at one point. I need my class to have a location for a place to teleport to and to remember where it spawned.

2.) Change Rotation - I need this for my class too; I know how to change the rotation in UnrealEd. But as it's under another variable, I'm not quite sure how I'd set it.

I need both of these for a helicopter class I'm making. Not just any helicopter, but it lets you do missions.

I've been coding it most of the morning. 315 lines of code, so I'm gonna go for a nap or play Halo3 or something away from the computer.

Thanks in advance!

[Dae]

Location is above Rotation in "Movement" in UED. It's a vector variable, so if you want to alter it (e.g. add 5 to Y),

Something.Location += vect(0,5,0);

You can set location via SetLocation(vect(x,y,z));

absolutely the same with rotation... function for setting it is SetRotation

[Cozmo]

Ah, I should've worded that better. What I meant was the variable that makes something rotate constantly, like the DXLogo. But I've just thought about how I could do that anyway.

And I know how to SetLocation, I just wanted to know if there's such thing as a variable to store a location on, like on MultiDX you can set the location of the bomb in the .ini through some var.

Thanks for the effort though.

[Dae]

how does the variable in ini of multidx look like?

[Cozmo]

how does the variable in ini of multidx look like?

I would've copied the var type, but he protected it.

Here's one combination I see from the ini.

MapName[0]=DXMP_Smuggler
BombLocation[0]=(X=306.587524,Y=33.631599,Z=239.800003)

[Dae]

the var type is "vector", obviously

like
var vector MyRotation config(Mymod);

Self.SetRotation(MyRotation);

[Cozmo]

the var type is "vector", obviously

like
var vector MyRotation config(Mymod);

Self.SetRotation(MyRotation);

Ok, thanks for that Dae.

[Allan]

I thought rotation has it's own type of variable - Rotator.

[Dae]

I checked Unreal Wiki — Allan is right.

[MainMan]

What I meant was the variable that makes something rotate constantly, like the DXLogo.

SetPhysics(PHYS_Rotating);

[Ayleth]

What I meant was the variable that makes something rotate constantly, like the DXLogo.

SetPhysics(PHYS_Rotating);

i believe you need another var too, bFixedRotationDir=true. or something like that.

[~ô¿ô~Nobody~]

Location is above Rotation in "Movement" in UED. It's a vector variable, so if you want to alter it (e.g. add 5 to Y),

Something.Location += vect(0,5,0);

You can set location via SetLocation(vect(x,y,z));

absolutely the same with rotation... function for setting it is SetRotation

Something.Location += vect(0,5,0);
wouldn't work already.

You needed to do it like
something.Setlocation(vect(something.location.x,something.location.y+5,something.location.z));

[MainMan]

A better way would be:


local vector loc;
loc = Something.location;

loc.Y += 5;

Something.SetLocation(loc);

[~ô¿ô~Nobody~]

Yes, of course. I just wanted to make it look difficult

[Allan]

Wouldn't

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Something.SetLocation(Something.Location+vect(0,0,5));

work too?