New to this and need a question answered

[justin_s]

Hi,

Could someone explain to me how you get values of config set variables? I am unsure as to how to do it and can't really find out how =/, Any help will be appreciated.

 

[Benjamin]

Could you elaborate or give an example of what values you want to access? I'm not sure what it is that you want.

 

[justin_s]

I am trying to read and write variables like "bWeaponStay" under Engine.Gameinfo in the Killingfloor.ini file.


EDIT: Sorry just realised it uses the variables in [KFMod.KFGameType] but i still want to know how to edit these vars with a mutator .

 

[Benjamin]

It depends where the variable is declared. That particular variable is declared in GameInfo, and can be accessed like this:

Level.Game.bWeaponStay = true;

 

[justin_s]

What about ones like "MaxPlayers" ?

 

[Benjamin]

Same place:

Level.Game.MaxPlayers = NewMaxPlayers;

I'd recommend using Windows Grep for finding where variables are declared (and referenced) in files.

 

[justin_s]

Is there a limit as to what i can set? I tried setting the starting cash and even the maxplayers. Neither of them worked so i tried setting a timer just out of curiosity incase it would work, that failed also.

class KFSettingsTest extends Mutator;

function PostBeginPlay()
{
    Level.Game.StartingCash = 500;  

}

defaultproperties
{
    GroupName="KFSettingTest"
    FriendlyName="Setting Test"
    Description="Mutator to handle the settings"
}

 

[Benjamin]

It seems the StartingCash variable gets set depending on the level of difficulty. Thus:

class KFSettingsTest extends Mutator;

function PostBeginPlay()
{
	KFGameType(Level.Game).StartingCashNormal = 9999;
	KFGameType(Level.Game).MinRespawnCashNormal = 9999;
	
	Level.Game.MaxPlayers = 7; // Doesn't work
	
	SetTimer(1, false);
}

function Timer()
{
	Level.Game.MaxPlayers = 7; // Does
}

defaultproperties
{
    GroupName="KFSettingTest"
    FriendlyName="Setting Test"
    Description="Mutator to handle the settings"
}

I'm not sure why but you must delay the setting of MaxPlayers.

 

[justin_s]

Thanks, i understand it now. Sadly i noticed that perks were completely disabled :S and that perk replacement mod is good but i'd still prefer the standard perk choosing.

 

[Benjamin]

Yeah, it's a shame but it seems that at the moment there's no known way to securely allow perks to be used when non-whitelisted mutators are running (since technically speaking you could write a mutator that modifies your perks). When testing I use this mutator for perks.