Difference between revisions of "Legacy:Mover Topics"

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This is the main page for anything about movers.

Reference

• The Mover class and its properties
• Custom Movers – making these for UT2003
• Types of Mover – Summary of the types of mover in UT and what they are used for

Topics

There's a ton of stuff to cover here. Here's a rough list of things to cover. Feel free to add to it, or start a topic, or re-arrange stuff here.

Basic Tutorial

This tutorial should be able to guide a beginner through the steps involved in making a mover. If it doesn't, please improve it.

1. Create A Mover – Making the mover shape and adding it
2. Keyframe – Setting keyframes for a mover
3. Activating a mover – Triggering, movement types and move times

Moving On

• Making Doors
• Rotating And Swinging Doors
• Doors and Gates, Lifts and Elevators
• How to make Elevators with Doors That follow the Lift
• Special Effects
• How to make Mover interpolate through an ObjectPath
• Using movers that move instantly to make stuff appear or disappear
• ExplodingWall and glass
• Glass and masked textures in movers
• Proximity Doors

Specifics like using the ElevatorMover can maybe go under the class definition?

Multi-Component Stuff

• Making Complex Doors – Multi-part doors with the 2D editor (UT)
• Attaching Actors to movers
• Compound Movers – Using slave movers and attaching movers to movers
• Movers with more than 8 keys
• Fancy stuff like locks and keys
• Making Multi-Story Elevators
• Proximity- and damage-triggered Doors – Quake3-style doors in UT2004
• Moving Power Cores - Without Breaking Bot Support.

Custom Movers

• Scripting Movers – Making your own mover
• VariableTimedMover – Allows variable timing with any number of keys and any Mover State.

Bots and Movers

• Pathing Lifts
• Doors with triggers
• Bot Support – Other bot-related topics

Related Topics

• Triggering Sounds – Using hidden movers to trigger sounds
• Dynamics topic page

External Links

• Lode's All About Movers Tutorial

Discussion

LionsPhil: Mention should probably be made somewhere that, for things like fans, setting Movement.bFixedRotationDir to true, Object.IntialState to None, and setting up a Movement.RotationRate (Unreal rotation units per second, so try powers of two in the thousands) is a lot easier than keyframe-based movement. Especially as it avoids the "rewinding" you'll get from ConstantLoop.

Spinal: I think it's worth mentioning that a mover is added at the center of the red brush, not in the center of the current viewport or something. This caused me a few minutes of thinking "why doesn't my mover show up?"

Seditious: Thanks LionsPhil, that just cured my frustration. I wonder why ConstantLoop acts more like Triggerpound than LoopMove. All I wanted first is a rotating decoration, so I haven't tried the triggered states yet, but UDN's doc is vague about this...

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