FoliageFactory

[[FGS]Kalman]

Hi!
It's my first script, and it works. It summons foliages within it's CollisionRadius. Useful for outdoor maps.
Previews:

[chin.democ.]

So foliage appears in a circle around you? If so this could be very useful.

[[FGS]Kalman]

It's a simple generator, the foliage appears around the FoliageFactory

[~DJ~]

Awesome.

I had a go at the real thing ages ago though, never finished it.. This would be the best illusion.. latest game(s) use these aswell..

This isn't exactly that though, It wouldn't keep repeating if I'm getting you correctly.. It would only summon per map actor you place on the area...

[chin.democ.]

Oh I see, so it's a handy time saver when doing outdoor areas.

[~][FGS][Nobody~]

This is a simple but actually groundbreaking idea.
That way a map wouldn't always have the same look and perhaps it could even effect the gameplay.
Just imagine extending that ideas to decorative elements like crates. One single map would give slighty different conditions on every match.

[[FGS]Kalman]

In the UDK, there is a volume called FoliageFactory. I tried to make that class for Deus Ex.

[chin.democ.]

How does the foliage spawn, is it all at once, is it in random locations?

[[FGS]Kalman]

Yeah, it spawns in random locations and all at once, but it can't spawn more than 1000.

[~[FGS]SaSQuATcH~]

Is it based on the 'spawnmass' command?

[chin.democ.]

So Nobody is right in saying you could have a different looking map every time it loads, now that is cool, I wonder what else it could be used for? crates is interesting, but I'm sure there's more interesting things to spawn too.

[~][FGS][Nobody~]

Well, continuing that thought.. more interesting objects would be a kind of predefined object combinations, like stacked crates.. or stuff like emps behind or below some spawned object!

Apart of all that creative ideas..
A pretty big issue would be the conception of a proper algorithm that defines and also enforces some rules about: where what kind of objects could be placed and where they are misplaced.

[[FGS]Kalman]

Here is the code:
FoliageFactory:

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class FoliageFactory expands Effects;

var(Foliage) int NumberOfFoliage;
var(Foliage) Mesh FoliageMesh;
var(Foliage) Texture FoliageTexture[4];
var FoliageProxy proxy;

function PostBeginPlay()
{
local int i;
local float distance;
local rotator r;
local vector loc;
local int direction;


Super.PostBeginPlay();
	
do
{
 direction=Rand(65535);
 distance=FRand()*CollisionRadius;
 r=RotRand();
 r.Pitch=0;
 r.Roll=0;
loc=Location+(Vector(r)*distance);
proxy = Spawn(Class 'FoliageProxy', Self,,loc, r);
if (proxy != None)
		if (proxy.Mesh != FoliageMesh)
			SetProxyData();
			i=i+1;
} until ( i == NumberOfFoliage );
}
simulated function SetProxyData()
{
local int i;
i = Rand(41);
if (proxy != None)
	{

		if (FoliageMesh != None)
			proxy.Mesh = FoliageMesh;
			if (i== 0 && i<11)
			{
			proxy.MultiSkins[0] = FoliageTexture[0];
			}
			else if (i>10 && i<21)
			{
			proxy.MultiSkins[0] = FoliageTexture[1];
			}
			else if (i>20 && i<31)
			{
			proxy.MultiSkins[0] = FoliageTexture[2];
			}
			else if (i>30 && i<41)
			{
			proxy.MultiSkins[0] = FoliageTexture[3];
			}
		
	}

}

defaultproperties
{
     NumberOfFoliage=1
     bHidden=True
     DrawType=DT_Sprite
     Texture=Texture'Engine.S_Inventory'
     CollisionRadius=256.000000
     CollisionHeight=32.000000
     bCollideActors=True
}

FoliageProxy:

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class FoliageProxy expands ParticleProxy;

defaultproperties
{
     Physics=PHYS_Falling
     DrawType=DT_Mesh
     Style=STY_Normal
     Mesh=LodMesh'DeusExDeco.Basket' <-----LOL, I forgot to change back
     DrawScale=1.000000
     CollisionRadius=22.000000
     CollisionHeight=22.000000
}

It spawns a lot of FoliageProxy, then it changes it's mesh and texture. But I think it can spawns any type of decoration.

[~][FGS][Nobody~]

Yeah, I've already looked at the code within the package you provided.

Just one thing.. for the sake off efficiency, you could replace

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if (i== 0 && i<11)
         {
         proxy.MultiSkins[0] = FoliageTexture[0];
         }
         else if (i>10 && i<21)
         {
         proxy.MultiSkins[0] = FoliageTexture[1];
         }
         else if (i>20 && i<31)
         {
         proxy.MultiSkins[0] = FoliageTexture[2];
         }
         else if (i>30 && i<41)
         {
         proxy.MultiSkins[0] = FoliageTexture[3];
         }

with

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proxy.MultiSkins[0]=FoliageTexture[i % ArrayCount(FoliageTexture)];

[[FGS]Kalman]

Thanks, I'm just a begginer
Edit: I get this error: D:\Játékok\DeusEx\FoliageFactory\Classes\FoliageFactory.uc(49) : Error, Bad or missing expression in array index
Failed due to errors.