rujuro on 27/2/2005 at 23:27

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So I have attached a light to a junk object, and garret can pick it up and carry it/throw it. When thrown it lights up the environment quite nicely, however while it is in Garret's possession it seems that it leaves the world, and the light turns off until it is dropped or thrown.

I was wondering if anyone can think of a way to link the light to Garret's position while he holds it, so you could potentially carry a torch though a dark environment. I'm trying to create an attachment link between the light and garret's hand bone when the object is frobbed, but so far this doesn't seem to be working. Anyone thiink this is possible? Or am I crazy.

Tch on 27/2/2005 at 23:38

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I never needed a flare in T3 -- If you have a fire arrow, all you have to do is prepare to fire it, and it lights up your area the same way a flare would. Then I hit the space bar to put it away. :)

jay pettitt on 27/2/2005 at 23:58

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Do you get access to the weapon scripts in t3ed. If so, I'd check out the fire arrows.


edit - well look at me being slow typing person :rolleyes: -

Zillameth on 10/3/2005 at 00:56

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I have found a partially working solution to this problem. It's not fully functional, but it's a good start.

1. Add Lighting properties to Garrett's archetype. This is neccessary, because we are literally going to turn Garrett into a lamp. It seems that properties cannot be added dynamically, when they are needed during mission. Therefore, we need to have them available on startup. Don't forget to add bLightOn and set it to False.

2. Prepare a light source actor. I chose an OilHandheldLamp, but I guess it can be a torch, too. Change its properties, so that it becomes moveable and can be picked up as junk.

3. Create a script:
Conditions:
- logical AND operator
- when I am frobbed by player
- Querry if [bLightOn] if [Equal To] [TRUE] on any linked object(s)
//When lamp or torch is extinguished, it shouldn't give light after being picked up by Garrett.
[MYSELF]
Actions:
- Set [Property] to [Value] on linked objects of [PLAYER]
// Use several instances of this action to set Garrett's Lighting properties to match those of your light source. It would be better to use an action that copies properties from one object to another, but I couldn't find anything like that.
- Set [bLightOn] to [TRUE] on linked objects of [PLAYER]
- Reset script contidions and actions
//Without this action script would only work once.

4. Create another script. This one is shorter, but more tricky, because there is apparently no condition that detects object being dropped by player (or maybe I just can't find it, which is quite possible). Fortunately, when object travels between world and inventory, there is a change in one of its properties, and that can be detected easily.

Conditions:
- On the event [bOutOfWorld] is [Equal To] [FALSE] on any linked objects [MYSELF]
// this condition fires only when bOutOfWorld CHANGES to False, which is exactly what we want. This property's value apparently changes to True on pickup, and to False on drop.

Actions:
- Set [bLightOn] to [FALSE] on linked objects of [PLAYER]
//This is sufficient. When lamp is off, it doesn't matter, what kind of light it gives, because it doesn't give any.
- Reset script conditions and actions

5. Add both scripts to the light source actor.

There are several drawbacks and todos. Garrett's model's hands are empty, which is particularly irritating in 3rd person mode. On the other hand, both Garrett's hands are full, but that's fairly reasonable (besides, he can drop that lamp anytime). Guards don't notice sudden rise of lighting level. And I don't know what would happen if player carried light to another map.

dracflamloc on 10/3/2005 at 07:05

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I tried attaching a torch but I couldnt get it to go, then again I dont know anything about UnrealEd so you may have better mileage