udk split screen

[Gildor]

I think you'll need to attach secondary camera to the PlayerController of 2nd character in some way (I don't know how). It is uncommon task to create 2 playable PlayerControllers on single client, I think this will be your major task. Attaching the camera will not be so hard.

[double-o-kid]

I did some looking around, not too many people are doing what i'm trying to do. for the few I have come across that have something similar, they are no answers.
I did make two seperate pawn and player controller classes (from a tutorial I found). I don't have much in them, it looks pretty bare I know.

My Pawn (2nd pawn has same info)
class MBPawn1 extends Pawn;

DefaultProperties
{
GroundSpeed=440.0
JumpZ=322.0
}

My PlayerController (2nd player controller same info)
class MBPlayerController1 extends PlayerController;

Defaultproperties
{
Name="MBPlayerController1"
CameraClass=class'MBCamera'
}

and a Viewport code I found for splitscreen. I don't know yet how to change it to vertical split yet.

class MBViewportClient extends GameViewportClient;

 exec function DebugCreatePlayer(int ControllerId)
{
   local string Error;

   if(GamePlayers.Length < 2)
   CreatePlayer(ControllerId, Error, TRUE);
}

I still have to look more into the camera when it comes to coding it. I'm going for a isometric view but i'm not having much luck with that. I used the one on the udn page but it didn't work. setting the camera up in kismet was pretty easy! too bad the coding for it isn't 

If I make anymore "break threws" before i go to sleep, I will post  i've been up for hours reading udn documents and uscript to the point that i'm seeing numbers and letters
oh, and thank you again for a point in the right direction gildor, i appreciate it.

[double-o-kid]

the kind of split screen type i'm looking to do is similar to the dynasty warrior series. where on the character selection screen 2nd player can choose to join first player, before each battle. if 2nd player decides to join, then the map will load as split screen. if the 2nd player chooses not to join, then the map will be single player.(hopefully that can be coded in, somehow)

here's a picture of the character select screen (2nd player has not joined yet)



here's the picture where 2nd player has chosen to join



here's the split screen I want to do except the vertical version



here's a picture of single player (2nd player chose not to join)




i think the one your talking about is kind of similar to resident evil 4 where you are able to switch between leon and ashley during different parts of the game.

[double-o-kid]

I was reading around on the forum, trying to find someone that had a standard split screen code and a guy mentioned dungeon defenders. he said to look at the split screen code in the game viewport. so I downloaded the files and looked in the viewport. I seen some code with split screen in it, but I don't know which part i'm suppose to use for my game

 here's the pieces of code I found with split screen in it...

/** Static array of all of our cursor particles, up to a max num */
var CursorParticle CursorParticles[NUM_CURSOR_PARTICLES];
/** The Material that our cursor particles will use */
var Material CursorParticleMat;
/** The most recent canvas width */
var int LastCanvasWidth;
/** The most recent canvas height */
var int LastCanvasHeight;
/** Whether the game will currently allow split-screen (may be toggled off, for example, during a full-screen cinematic) */
var bool WantSplitScreen;
var float LastResetCursorParticleTime;

/** Updates the split-screen mode, forcing split-screen to be disabled when we don't want it (i.e. during a cinematic) */
function UpdateActiveSplitscreenType()
{
   if(!WantSplitScreen)
   {
      ActiveSplitscreenType = eSST_NONE;
      return;
   }

   super.UpdateActiveSplitscreenType();
}


/** Sets whether we currently want split-screen support, and updates accordingly for the new value to take effect */
function DunDefSetSplitScreen(bool splitScreen)
{
   WantSplitScreen = splitScreen && main(GetCurrentWorldInfo().Game).IsGameplayLevel();
   UpdateActiveSplitscreenType();
}

event bool Init(out string OutError)
{
   local bool returnVal;

   local PlayerManagerInteraction PlayerInteraction;

   ActiveSplitscreenType = DesiredSplitscreenType;

DefaultProperties
{
   UIControllerClass=class'UDKGame.DunDefUIController'
   WantSplitScreen=true
   LastCanvasWidth=1024
   LastCanvasHeight=768
   CursorParticleMat=Material'DunDefMisc.CursorParticle'
   bUseConsole=true
}

[freezerburn]

Hi double-o-kid,

Hmm... I'm not familiar with the splitscreen method myself. Actually I didn't know it existed in UDK. Now i'm interested in trying to do this. I looked up Dungeon Defenders source file and downloaded it. Wow, the splitscreen codes look rather confusing in the gameviewportclient.uc. :O (Especially since i'm no programmer.)

Gildor, which part of the code in gameviewportclient will she need? All of it?

[double-o-kid]

thanks for the replies 
i'll get the code and fine tune it. hopefully i'll get right 
if i have an errors or succeed when I compile I'll post it.

[Gildor]

There is no useful information in that post. He says obvious things (which you know already, I think).