Custom Ball in Death Ball

[EvilTwin1]

A few custom balls have been around, and when I wanted to make one, it was hard to find info.

So after I finally got the hook up from Blaagguuu, I decided to spend a little time, and do an in depth tutorial.

Sorry for posting it here but, if anyone wants to see it, check it out at ET1 Ball Tut

That is all

[Rens2Sea]

No need to replace the ball, just use this in your mutator instead of the CheckReplacement function:

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function PostBeginPlay()
{
        Class'xGame.xBombFlag'.Default.StaticMesh=StaticMesh'ET1BallS.ET1Ball';

Super.PostBeginPlay();
}

[Kyllian]

One thing I've noticed is that some custom balls alter the physical "size" of the ball
More than once I saw a ball bounce off the post when it shouldn't have
Even did some testing on and offline and once in a while, the ball actually seems to have changed 'size'

[DaJero]

Rens2sea's code only alters the mesh of the ball. If you want to add some other behaviour as well you need to subclass DB_BombFlag and you can replace the current ball with your ball using a mutator.

This is the code from DB_Mutator:

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function bool CheckReplacement(Actor Other, out byte bSuperRelevant)
{
	if ( Other.IsA('xBombSpawn') )
	{
		xBombSpawn(Other).FlagType = class'Deathball.DB_BombFlag';
	}
	// there is other code here but it's not relevant to your question
}

See how DeathBall uses a normal xBombSpawn for their own ball?

Good luck!

[Rens2Sea]

You can change almost every default value in Postbeginplay including drawscale and the collisionsizes :p

[DaJero]

You can change almost every default value in Postbeginplay including drawscale and the collisionsizes :p

yeah, but to get REALLY different behaviour you need to subclass DB_BombFlag. Changing default properties are just minor adjustments.

[Rens2Sea]

I know :p

[JODECI]

So in English does that mean leave the ball alone?