Melee Weapons and KActors

smokeringhalo1 · Post by **smokeringhalo1** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:43 am

Making a Duel map and cannot get Melee weapons to register hits on Karma actors. Projectile Weapons work as usual but melee weapons travel right through the mesh of the Kactor
However the melee weapons do hit the mesh when used as a normal static mesh and not a KActor.
I've been trying everything I can think of for hours to no avail.
Any ideas or information on how to get this working would be appreciated.
Thanks.

jb · Post by jb » Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:54 am

Hmmm will have to look into that. The melee weapons use a modifed trace system to do hit detection. They have "bones" placed in the 3rd model of the weapon and while the weapon is being swung, the code traces between the "bones" during the swing. If something crosses the trace path then it should be detected. My guess is that the Kactors are not being picked up by the trace...will have to double check. Thanks!

smokeringhalo1 · Post by **smokeringhalo1** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 12:10 pm

Please let me know the results and any solution you may come up with.
I gotta get this cage swinging!!!

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Weapon travels right through KActor

Post by **R.Flagg** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 12:45 pm

Even if you did, wouldn't that be the kind of thing that we would not see swinging online? (like the lamps in ChaosDM1)

Or would this be different?

Bananasalat · Post by **Bananasalat** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 4:06 pm

i have the same problem

smokeringhalo1 · Post by **smokeringhalo1** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 12:55 am

R.Flagg wrote:Even if you did, wouldn't that be the kind of thing that we would not see swinging online? (like the lamps in ChaosDM1)

Or would this be different?

Without additional coding yes, you are correct.
However there is code posted on the Wiki that replicates Karma on the server as well as the client.
Duel would be the perfect gametype to implement this IMO because of the low # of players at one time keeping the CPU overhead to a minimum.

EDIT: Here is the link to the code on the Wiki
http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/KActor_Replication

Post by **R.Flagg** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 1:03 am

Sounds interesting. (well, the concept, not the link...I don't speak 'wiki'

).

Maybe Chaos Jailbreak Melee Team Duel, and the 'jails' are cages swinging over some big fire pit or something. hehe...sorry, just funnin

TKATK · Post by **TKATK** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 1:11 am

melle JB,now that would be nice

,too bad theres the thing about getting permission to edit the gametype