Edit Script guide?

[tehmadcap]

When you right click an actor one of the options is Edit Script and i was just wondering what function(s) this serves? I can't find any guides or even a command usage/syntax reference.

What are the capabilities/limitations of a script? Can it be used to interact with other actors? for example, script a weapon pickup to fire a trigger when it's picked up


Edit: I found this http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/UnrealScriptReference.html which is a start.

[ro_sauce]

this is actually an almost completely useless function in the editor, it opens up actors/ objects to view the source code.
however it's much better to work with uncompiled uc files in a directory structure, and besides, you really arent supposed to change any of the code for default objects/actors because you will get mismatch errors when trying to join online.

if you want to start coding stuff, then you should get rachel cordone's programming for unreal book (or ebook) it's very helpful for ppl wanting to learn unrealscript.

if you want a weapon pickup to fire a trigger, then just give it an event to what ever you want to trigger, you dont even have to mess with source code.

[ro_sauce]

if you want to learn how to start modding stuff then head over to generel modding forums and read the tutorials.

[tehmadcap]

Originally Posted by ro_sauce

this is actually an almost completely useless function in the editor, it opens up actors/ objects to view the source code.
however it's much better to work with uncompiled uc files in a directory structure, and besides, you really arent supposed to change any of the code for default objects/actors because you will get mismatch errors when trying to join online.

if you want to start coding stuff, then you should get rachel cordone's programming for unreal book (or ebook) it's very helpful for ppl wanting to learn unrealscript.

if you want a weapon pickup to fire a trigger, then just give it an event to what ever you want to trigger, you dont even have to mess with source code.

Ah ok. It's possible to make custom actors like the ammobox in fal's triggerpack so mismatch errors can be avoided that way.

What i was trying to do is make the ammobox fire an event via script because the pickup event for ammobox is either broken or not used in the game engine.

[tehmadcap]

I figured out the problem. Edit Script doesn't actually make any changes to packages.







It's working now