Need help with "Look" animation

[Silverprad]

Hi all. I've been trying and failing to achieve what could be a simple thing. When bots are waiting, it plays a animation seq. One is 'CockGun'/'CockGunL' animation and the other is 'Look'/'LookL' animation which are present in most mesh like commandos and soldiers. The human player, however, only plays the CockGun animation when the player is idle but not Look animation. So, I figured the code on the class TournamentPlayer from PlayerPawn class has not included that Look animation as given below:

if ( FRand() < 0.1 )
{
if ( (Weapon == None) || (Weapon.Mass < 20) )
PlayAnim('CockGun', 0.5 + 0.5 * FRand(), 0.3);
else
PlayAnim('CockGunL', 0.5 + 0.5 * FRand(), 0.3);
}


All I'm trying to do is include this 'Look' animation but failing. I can't edit the code directly using UnrealEd 2.0. It is not saving. I took help from chatGPT/Grok to write mutators to add it manually. It didn't either compile because of errors or compile but still doesn't activate that animation in-game.

Can somebody help?

[sektor2111]

I can't edit the code directly using UnrealEd 2.0. It is not saving.

First of all it is NOT advisable to modify stock files in client unless you want to be rejected in servers with a "mismatch version" error.
If everyone is adjusting files how wants, some dudes might implement "helpers" in their files - cheats more specific.

Depending on your needs you might use a new "child class" game-type having other specific player - I used this way to solve missing animations from some player models spamming log. To be more clear I'm not using original CTF/DM games. Players in these matches might do what Bot does - finding an enemy based on Paths-Net from map - and also other various fixes because in that time it was no 469 UT patch available.

Welcome aboard !

[Silverprad]

Thanks for the reply, Sektor. So, basically I'm playing only single player games for time-pass. Not worried about version mis-match in servers and all. I just thought that the animation would look cool to see in-game with behindview on and in the process learn some codding. But in vain.

I even tried to create a separate mutator mod by binding a specific key to that animation. So that when i press the assigned button, the animation would play but didn't happened.