How to disable a mutator?

[UTX]

I'm working on a weapon that is a child class of a Nali Weapon, and Nali Weapons automatically add the Bloody Mess mutator most commonly known as the Ultra Gore mutator. I made my own version of the Bloody Mess mutator which I use on this new weapon I am making, but I don't want the old Bloody Mess mutator to be added to the game, so instead of modifying each Nali Weapon to get rid of that line of code, can I make a mutator that takes the Bloody Mess mutator out of the base mutator list?

[MrLoathsome]

It would probably be better for you to extend NaliWeapons itself to something new, and take out or modify the
gore mutator at that point, and then have your new weapon be a child of that class.

(Take out anything else your new weapon doesn't need also....)

Could be better ways to do it, but that is how I would approach it I think.

[UTX]

I understand what you're saying, but the thing is, my weapon works, it does not need to be made as "new".
The thing is, the other Nali Weapons will still add the old Bloody Mess mutator to the game, that's what I need to avoid, but I don't want to subclass every Nali Weapon just to stop them from adding the mutator to the game, I would rather fix this in a single class to keep it short and sweet, and so people can still use their other Nali Weapons along with mine without any issues or extra work.

[-=SoP=-axewound]

You could extend the core source and create your own NWBloodyMess class, or maybe you already did this in your own version?

Did you try turning everything off under the [NWCoreVIII_SRC.NWBloodyMess] settings in NWConfig.ini?

[EvilGrins]

Find an earlier version of NW3. The UltraGore effect wasn't added to the weapons until the final version.

[Chris]

Oh yeah, the great "modify a weapon story" lol.
So your idea is basically to let NaliWeapons add a mutator, and after that you want to remove it again right away in a hackish way? Not a great model but that's your choice for taking the lazy road.

You could just iterate through all mutators, destroy the one you want and then weld the chain back together.
Or do as EvilGrins suggested and base it on an earlier version.

[Mar]

You just need to set enableHeadshotFX and enableBodyshotFX to false in your NWConfig.ini
It is under [NWCoreVIII.NWBloodyMess] as axewound already said.

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class NWBloodyMess expands Mutator config(NWConfig);
[...]
static function bool isEnabled()
{
	return (default.enableHeadshotFX || default.enableBodyshotFX);
}
[...]

[UTX]

Did ANY of you actually read what I wrote?
Nali Weapons 3 By Default adds the BloodyMess mutator to the game, I am not doing that, FeraliDragon coded them that way. Now, I made my own version of BloodyMess that adds new blood colors, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow, because I need them for the Nyan Cat Launcher I am making, I want everything with colors, even the blood.
Now, I want the Nali Weapons to be able to be used along with the Nyan Cat Launcher, but I need to remove the old BloodyMess mutator that the Nali Weapons add from the game so that my own version works properly.
I don't want to downgrade Nali Weapons because it should be able to work with the latest version.

Can I do this? Or do I really need to subclass every single Nali Weapon to remove that line of code that adds the BloodyMess mutator to the game?

[-=SoP=-axewound]

Did ANY of you actually read what I wrote?

Yes, everyone that replied was legitimately trying to help you, however none of us are mind readers (I am not, maybe one or more of the others are ), the answers are in the details as provided by the person asking the question.

If you've extended the NWBloodyMess class to make your own, also extend the NaliWeapons class and change the reference to NWBloodyMess to your own version:

Change

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if (Class'NWBloodyMess'.static.isEnabled())
		AddAuxMutator(Class'NWBloodyMess');

to

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if (Class'NWBloodyMess'.static.isEnabled())
		AddAuxMutator(Class'UTXBloodyMess');

Regardless, Feralidragon made this so it was extensible... no need to re-invent the wheel. I thought you got it when you did the crossbow mutator.

Edit: I didn't check your code, I just assumed you extended the chaos and nw3 classes...

[MrLoathsome]

I am a dumb guy.

[Gustavo6046]

I am a dumb guy.

THIS!

[UTX]

"... Instead of modifying each Nali Weapon to get rid of that line of code...

... Also extend the NaliWeapons class and change the reference to NWBloodyMess to your own version...

Like I said already, that's exactly what I am trying to avoid, I don't want to subclass anything and I don't want to subclass every single Nali Weapon.
Anyway, I dropped the idea since this was not helpful and I don't know how to do this yet, perhaps I can do this another time.

[-=SoP=-axewound]

You might want to read again... you only have 2 options; extend the ONE (not all of the weapon classes) class mentioned or turn off the settings in the ini as clearly described in the posts.

I only offered to help as I have done a few modifications with NW3 already, no worries though I won't make that mistake again