Spawning Pawn / Bot and Forcing it into Turret

[Captain Salty]

Hello there,

I have been tasked with making a single player esque level in UED for a University assignment and I have a turret that I'm trying to force a bot to control as a player runs over a trigger.

I've tried using Assign Controller in Kismet, and I've also tried just spawning a bot and having it run to a path node near the turrets position, as well as just teleporting it directly onto the turrets position, but theres nothing that seems to work.

Any help is appreciated, thank you.

[Vailias]

Does the bot know how to use turrets?
As in: Is there an AI routine in the bot controller that tells the bot that it can use the turret object, and also when it should, and how?

[Captain Salty]

Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

I would assume so, as these are not custom bots that I am using. I am simply using the bots that come with Unreal. This may be in the wrong part of the forum then, but I am using UED, not UDK.

[Vailias]

Ah ok. Well then turrets from UT3 and UT2k4 are a type of vehicle. So you'll need to tell the bot to board the vehicle it is closest to. Its been a while, so I don't remember the actual script command there, but look through UT_Bot.uc to and or the script for the turret and its parents to see about a function setting the bot to want to drive a vehicle, or forcing it to board the nearest one. Then you'll be on the right path.

[Captain Salty]

How would I go about doing that exactly? Looking at the script of UT_Bot, I mean.

Sorry, new to this part of Unreal, never touched script before.

[Vailias]

ooh gotcha. :) for ut3 you'll want to export the scripts.. just search that on google. "UT3 Export scripts" and you'll find the tutorials you need.

[Captain Salty]

Thank you, that helped! :)

I've gone through UT_Bot, UTPawn and UTVehicle_TrackTurretBase (closest thing I could find to something resembling script for the turret vehicle), and well, quite frankly I don't know what I'm looking for, and even if I'd of found something I wouldn't of known what to do with it.

Further guidance is appreciated!