Animated Trader, fire emmiter, smoke, sound, ammo / weapon spawns and more.


Animated Trader : Actor Classes tab - Actor - *WeaponLocker

Ambient Sound : Actor - *Keypoint - *AmbientSound

Fire : Actor - Emitter - ROLevelEmitters - *Fire...

Smoke : Actor - Emitter - ROLevelEmitters - *Smoke...

Ammo Spawn : Actor - Pickup - Ammo - *KFAmmoPickup (there is an error when you build, ignore it, it's fine!)

Random Weapon Spawn - Actor - *xPickUpBase - *KFRandomSpawn - *KFRandomItemSpawn <edited 4/4/14>

Normal door mover trigger - Actor - *Triggers - *UseTrigger - *KFUseTrigger <must be in door to work, settings in another section>

Trigger for movers that are proximity triggered : Actors - *Triggers - *Trigger

Teleports <to kick players out of closed traders> : Actor - NavigationPoint - SmallNaviagionPoint - Teleporter <place outside trader, settings in next section>

Jump Pad : Actor - NavigationPoint - JumpPad - *UTJumpPad

Path Node : Right-click, select path node.

Zone Info : Actor - Info - *ZoneInfo

Skybox Zone info : Actor - Info - *SkyZoneInfo

Trader room - on left under Volumes - ShopVolume

Blocking Volume - Blocks zeds and players but not shots

ZombieZoneVolume - Blocks players only

Anything can be used for a door or mover. The only reason I started using money for a trader door was because it was basically door shaped... but with the name GunsForBucks it turned into a kind of signature thing quite by chance.
You select in the:

Static Meshes tab and find a statc mesh you want to use for a door / mover, it can be anything and select it in the browser... then get your build cube... the door will appear in the middle of it.
Right click movers and choose mover ... I use Trader doors and door mover, all other movers like elevators I just use the top generic mover one.
Bring "door" to opening and resize it for the opeining in the DrawScale boxes at the bottom.

To set movement positions
Put door in closed position, right-click and select:

Mover - Key0
Right-click again
Mover - Key1

Move door to open position
Right-click
Mover - Key0
It should then snap into the closed position, door movement is set. If you make a mistake it is easier to just make a new door, unless another door is on the same wall and moves the same way it can act funny if copied. Normally, before I make the movement settings, I will make a duplicate of it so if I mess up I can just delete it and start over with the door already sized and ready to go.

Now that you can find the parts, this section will help you put them together. The proper weld door message I just sort of stumbled on by accident, spent a lot of time trying to find a tutorial that had that. For these settings Right-click on it and select Properites.

Trader

ShopVolume : Event - Event set to "Trader_X_Doors" X being the name of that trader.

Shop Volume - URL set to "Trader_X"

Trader Door : Must not be in contact with shop volume or will be able to trade through door when trader is closed.
Event - Tag set to "Trader_X_Doors"
Any number of trader doors can be set up to move when this tag activates, all doors with this tag will respond when that trader opens.

Teleport : Place outside trader for kick out.
Event - Tag set to "Trader_X" to match shop volume URL
The teleports guide the wisp trail so make sure teleports point to door and lined up if possible.

Weldable Doors

Door Mover : Event - Tag set to "Door_Y"
Must have individual names or all doors with same name will move at same time.

KF Use Trigger : Event - Event set to "Door_Y"
Use trigger must be moved inside of door, must be touching it, placement also seems to effect weld gauge indicator, on larger doors go to collision and make radius larger.

To make the proper message come up as it does in the game, go to the bottom of the properties and type "USE or WELD" in for the message. You have to capitalize it exactly as shown or it just comes up with white text of what you typed instead of the standard game message.
To add sounds you must first find the sound in the browser and select it, then when you go to the sound tab on the door and hit "use" it will use the sound you have selected for that operation. The sound pitch can then be modified to fit the door movement in the doors settings.

Terrain - Place Zone info and set it for bTerrain - True

On the left side click on the terrain button and a new window comes up. In the lower left side there is a paper icon, click it.
New box myLevel
XX_whateve_XX
XX_blahblah_XX
Then you must highlight the top section in the first window that opened selecting a layer... then on the right click "New"
New box myLevel
XX_whateve_XX
XY_Blah_XY
THEN ... Build All
You will now have the tools to play with terrain, you won't get them unless it is all configued and built once, then you're set.

<added from crondog8 > - Build Terrain early to avoid being buggy.


Ambient Sound

Place ambient sound actor, pick sound you want in browser. In properties:
Sound - Ambient Sound - new - use
bFullVolume - set to True
Increase radius as needed. Ambient sound is very muted so put it to max volume 255 and lower it as needed.

Standard Mover

Things that will move when you get close or an automatic elevator etc.
This is not the KFUseTrigger for weldable doors, this one works by proximity.

Mover : Event - Tag "Mover_X"
Object - Initial State - set to "TriggerOpenTime" from drop down box

Trigger : Event - Event "Mover_X"
Set the radius in the trigger to make sure it covers the path you want it to be triggerd from. The trigger can be any place you want the mover to trigger from. -edit June2014.
<added from crondog8 > - To see the radius of an Actor, right-click the thin bar above the 3-D view Actors - Radii View

Jump Pads

For helping bots pathing and access, normally needs to be blocked properly to keep players from using, cannot be set for zeds only.

Path Node : Object - Name = PathNodeXX

UT Jump Pad : NavigationPoint - ForcedPaths - [0] - set to PathNodeXX

Basics

It crashes easily if miss-clicks are made, undo is limited and unstable if you go too far, SAVE OFTEN. Sometimes issues come up that have easy work arounds, I noticed in a comment board thread about an issue that I had figured out but had not put in the guide. That is what this section will be used for.

Loss of view, SDK opens to white page

At top, click on:
View - Viewports - Configure... Then click "OK"

Your previously selected viewport configuration should be back to normal.




Terrain editor zoomed in:

Go to your KF/System folder and open your User.ini in there.
Search for the [WindowPositions] section and delete it completely, save afterwards.
Load up the SDK and everything should be in place as usually. <from Mutant in a discussion>



Often when placing a random item spawn it will, by default, place it too low to see. It will spawn but not be able to be seen on the map or picked up. The default placement for the KFRandomItemSpawn is a little low... make sure you use the correct actor .. *XPickupBase - *KFRandomSpawn - *KFRandomItemSpawn then place it. Check the placement by... the item shows on the map as a gun, there is a dot on the gun grip and a pointy bit sticking out back on the grip.. line the ground up so the ground cuts the dot in half and is a hair below the point sticking out back of the grip. Many times the default placement is too low, and serious problems happen when placing on rocks and such. If need be you can place them a little high and ignore the build error. All gun placements need to be checked, I just play the maps on beginner until I am sure they are all working.