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How can I make the "goto next map" logo visible?

Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 8:55 pm
by Aldebaran
I have a map which has many of these "goto next map" teleporters in. The problem is these teleporters work but the logos are not visible for players.
I don't want to touch the map itself, I want to make the logos visible with a mutator I have already.

I use the CheckReplacement function for other reasons, to change the destination-URL:

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local Teleporter TELE;
TELE = Teleporter(Other);
if (string(TELE) ~= "Mapname.Teleporter2" )
{
    TELE.Url="MapName2#entree?peer";
}
Is there a value I can set to make these teleporter-logos visible with my mutator?

Re: How can I make the "goto next map" logo visible?

Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 6:32 am
by Chamberly
Have you checked in the properties of it in the unreal editor, marking the bHidden=False? Was wanting to check on this.

Re: How can I make the "goto next map" logo visible?

Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 10:49 am
by Aldebaran
I looked into the map with the editor, there is no difference of Teleporters that can be seen and those you can't. bHidden is set to True in both cases.
Also I tried setting bHidden=False with my mutator, it changes nothing...

EDIT: Ooohhhh sorry, I found the reason for my problem. Another mutator spawns these logos, I have overseen that.

Re: How can I make the "goto next map" logo visible?

Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 6:50 pm
by esnesi
That is exactly how all my COOP and MH maps looks like.
I did not knew better and assumed it's designed like that..

All though i saw portals earlier in coop maps, which show the next level in the portal (preview-ish)

Re: How can I make the "goto next map" logo visible?

Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 7:04 pm
by Aldebaran
I assumed too that these logos are build in maps but as far as I can see the coop mod adds them.
So if you add a teleporter as in my situation AFTER the coop mod has started you have to add the logo for it by yourself.

Re: How can I make the "goto next map" logo visible?

Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 11:21 pm
by PrinceOfFunky
The problem is that you cannot distinguish between a teleport that brings you to another teleport or to a map, even if for this last one the teleport URL may have a hashtag to specify the teleport from which to spawn in the next map, but indeed it "may". So, just if you're confident that all the teleporters in coop maps bring to a map instead of another teleport within the same map then you can make a mutator that checks for every teleport and sets tp.bHidden=True; tp.DrawScale=<tp_size>; and then you can turn the teleports to rotate continuously etc...
Another solution would be to create a mutator that checks just for the teleporters specified in an .int file with a format like this:

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[<map_name>]
url_1=<url1>
url_2=<url2>
url_n=<url_n>

Re: How can I make the "goto next map" logo visible?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 5:38 pm
by Barbie
PrinceOfFunky wrote:The problem is that you cannot distinguish between a teleport that brings you to another teleport or to a map, even if for this last one the teleport URL may have a hashtag to specify the teleport from which to spawn in the next map, but indeed it "may".
Objection here. See stock source code of Engine.Teleporter:
Spoiler

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// Teleporter was touched by an actor.
simulated function Touch( actor Other ) {
...
	if ( !bEnabled )
		return;

	if( Other.bCanTeleport && Other.PreTeleport(Self)==false ) {
		if( (InStr( URL, "/" ) >= 0) || (InStr( URL, "#" ) >= 0) ) {
			// Teleport to a level on the net.
			if( (Role == ROLE_Authority) && (PlayerPawn(Other) != None) )
				Level.Game.SendPlayer(PlayerPawn(Other), URL);
		}
		else {
			// Teleport to a random teleporter in this local level, if more than one pick random.
...
PrinceOfFunky wrote:you can turn the teleports to rotate continuously
Engine.Teleporter has bStatic=True. So I guess rotation is not possible.
Aldebaran wrote:Is there a value I can set to make these teleporter-logos visible with my mutator?
If changing bVisible to TRUE does not work, spawn an special visible Actor on the same location.
BTW: why do SHOWALL does not show Teleporters and Triggers on clients in net play?

Re: How can I make the "goto next map" logo visible?

Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 6:14 am
by sektor2111
Also when teleporters are DT_Sprites I wish you luck at rotating these... :lol2:
If you are talking about a custom texture with multiple frames (simulating rotation) that's another story - and NOT A Stock thing.