Pawns That walk through walls.

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:55 pm

I have search the forums for references to pawns walking through walls. It seems that no one has done this before.

How would I make a pawn follow a path that would take it right through a wall. Im sure that it has sometihing to do with the collision. I also want to make the pawn so that it can be effected by gunfire.

I know this sounds really hard. I tried several methods but none of them worked.

darksmaster923 · Post by **darksmaster923** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:15 am

make the wall empty so u can see it but walk thru it.

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:22 am

The player isn't the one that I want to walk through the wall. The pawn is.

Post by **steven8** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:44 am

I don't see why it wouldn't work, though. I can't think of another way to do it, myself.

darksmaster923 · Post by **darksmaster923** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:07 am

put a pawn there so if a player goes near it it wont let him. a bit of scripting.

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:06 am

That sort of scripting is way beyond me. I might just have to settle for ghosts that dont walk throuh walls.

Oh well, can't have everything.

Post by **steven8** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:56 am

Alan Troup had a 'ghost' that came through a wall in Telepath. I'll write and ask him how he did it.

Post by **steven8** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:13 am

Alan just used the image of a ghost on a brush and animated it moving through the wall. Brushes can pass through each other. He suggested pretty much the same we did for an actor, use an empty (water) brush.

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:11 pm

I also wanted the ghost to attack. Oh well, they don't have to walk throu walls I suppose.

Post by **paradoxnj** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:20 pm

Genesis has a feature where you can turn off collisions for actors. Maybe someone can expose that feature to RF?

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:48 pm

How would one go about getting that feature introduced to RF though?

Post by **Jay** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:05 pm

When the pawn comes near the wall, use

SetNoCollision();
Gravity(false); //if the pawn even requires gravity

Then afterwards set them back via

SetCollision();
Gravity(true); //if the pawn even requires gravity

Provided you use LowLevel you could do it this way:

if(GetCollideDistance(BONENAME, 0, 1, 15 )<10) //BONENAME must be the root bone of the pawn
{
SetNoCollision();
Gravity(false);
}
else
{
SetCollision();
Gravity(true);
}

Now you should be able to let the ghost move through thinghs, the ghost can move through basically everything, poeple, walls, wardrobes, chairs... I am not too sure if this works. Try it out and tell us if it does...

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:19 pm

That looks like it should work.

Now if I could only remember how to use it.

I don't script much.

fps · Post by **fps** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:51 pm

you could use animations that move off the origin. i had all my pawns up to their waist in the ground by accident but i also had pawns who could crouch down and hide in the ground, like zombies, then when you walked by them the got up and attacked. you could probably get them to jump up through the ceiling and calculate the distance from walls and face them, then jump through them. then the animation would just wait a while before returning through the origin.
Try it.

incenseman2003 · Post by **incenseman2003** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:51 pm

fps: that sounds like it would work for certain things. What I really wanted the pawn to do is walk a path through several rooms through the walls.