Disable/Hide/Destroy/Move Purchase terminals

[DoctorAnubis]

I am having an issue. In my map I have placed a purchase terminal (Rx_BuildingAttachment_PT_GDI). I need it to be accessible only at certain times. However, after 3 hours of trying everything I could think of I still cannot get this to work when testing on a server.

You can modify the property of this actor, (such as TeamNum) only in the first 2 seconds of the game, after 2 seconds have passed no properties appear to be modifiable.

A solution using Matinee to move the PT looked promising, but I couldn't get the matinee to reverse on a server.

Any ideas on a solution?

[Fffreak9999]

Follow what Ruud did on crash site. 

The abandoned wf changes the allowable team to purchase vehicles based on capture of a MCT.

[DoctorAnubis]

I did look into that some time ago, but I believe it's a different type of PT, which kismet can manipulate no problem. the issue with it is that it does not function as a normal purchase terminal. I need to manipulate a terminal which functions as if it were in a team's building.

[j0g32]

Isn't there a property "bEnabled" ?

Without spoiling anything - may I ask what you are trying to achieve, i.e. why should the PT only be accesible at times?

[DoctorAnubis]

There is "bAccessable", which works fine until testing on a server, where it does nothing.

The goal is, capturing the communications centre grants 2 additional purchase terminals in the tunnels.

 

Edit

If I could get Matinee to reverse on a server then it would be fine. Everything works when testing in the UDK.

Edited April 29, 2017 by DoctorAnubis

[j0g32]

Okay cool !

Hm... so, everything works if you test it with "play in editor" or start a local game like skirmish.

But as soon as you have it on a server it does not "replicate" the change in properties for the clients?

Maybe you have to adapt some kismet node settings for multiplayer?

I am no expert in this though... ^^

Pergaps it helps if you have a look at how the EMP cannon was done in Kismet on Arctic Stronghold?

Good luck with this!

[DoctorAnubis]

@j0g32 I fixed it! It turns out Kismet reverses fine on servers, but for some reason Purchase Terminals do not like matinees. I discovered 'attachments', oh they are wonderful. So I set up a Mover (just an invisible box) where the PT needed to go, then simply attached the PTs to the Mover.

[j0g32]

  On 5/1/2017 at 4:16 AM, DoctorAnubis said:

@j0g32 I fixed it! It turns out Kismet reverses fine on servers, but for some reason Purchase Terminals do not like matinees. I discovered 'attachments', oh they are wonderful. So I set up a Mover (just an invisible box) where the PT needed to go, then simply attached the PTs to the Mover.

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that is great news!

So instead of changing teams or anything, the PTs physically move in and out of walls or something  ?

[DoctorAnubis]

  On 5/1/2017 at 7:29 AM, j0g32 said:

that is great news!

So instead of changing teams or anything, the PTs physically move in and out of walls or something  ?

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Yes 

[j0g32]

Haha, good to know - I did the same with PTs on an early version of Hammerfest, though I never tested it on a multiplayer server.