Fangame How-to:SonicGDK/Tips and tricks
From Sonic Retro
(Original guide by Xaklse)
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A list of tips & tricks worth mentioning for those who want to use SonicGDK.
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Editor tooltips
All the objects you place in a map with the Unreal Editor have properties; if you double-click on any of them, or select one of them and press F4, the Object Properties window appears with a list of properties and their values. When you mouse over the name of a property, the editor usually displays tooltips, which are very important if you want to know the effects of modifying a property.
Attachment of objects
Follow this little guide. It's also useful when you want a property of an object to point to another.
Sonic Physics mode
The "Sonic Physics mode" that you enable by placing SGDKStaticMeshActors or SonicPhysicsVolumes in a map, must be used only for loopings and walkable walls/steep slopes (greater than 45deg). "Sonic Physics mode" gets easily affected by little extrusions on the ground, so the meshes used with this mode need to be as smooth as possible.
"?pawn=" command switch
[...] how to change the playable pawn class easily [...]
Console commands
Console commands are string-based commands that you can run in the game. Cheats are also console commands; to use them, bring up the console by pressing Tab or Tilde (~), type them in and press Enter.
- fly: Lets the player fly.
- ghost: Lets the player fly through walls.
- walk: Cancels fly and ghost cheat commands.
- god: Grants permanent invencibility until you type the command again.
- slomo [number]: Alters the speed of the game to the value specified. 1.0 is 100%.
- stat fps: Toggles display of frames per second (fps) statistics.
- show collision: Toggles display of collision primitives.
- nxvis collision: Shows most of collision shapes.