Custom pet pawn & Custom game objective event

[DaveTheBlaze]

Me again, yay.
On behalf of the other problems on my map I open up another thread.

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Problem #1:
I've found a nice mesh on another map and decided to implement it as a pawn on my own map.
I created this subclass for xPawn -> Monster:

//=============================================================================
// DogPet.
//=============================================================================
class DogPet extends Monster
placeable;

I placed the actor inside my map and changed the default mesh to the mesh I wanted.
It looks like this:

DogPet_Pawn.jpg

When the pawn is close by it will start to follow the player around (like a Monster class would do).
Now the problem: The orientation is wrong. This means the pawn constantly looks to the side while walking towards you.
How can I fix this? Do I have to add a function which will control the pawns orientation/direction or is something wrong in the Movement settings of the actor itself (maybe an offset in rotation or something)?

Those are the actor properties:

DogPet_Actor_1of2.jpg

DogPet_Actor_2of2.jpg

PS: I don't own the model of the actor (e.g. in Maya). Thats why I can't just render the model in a different direction.
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Problem #2:
I've found a custom game objective on another map, which involves picking up and delivering a certain objective found on the map.
The objective itself works fine.
This is the code for the delivery actor:

//=============================================================================
// MyProximityObjective.
//=============================================================================
class MyProximityObjectiveBLUE_TEST extends ProximityObjective
placeable;

#exec OBJ LOAD FILE=AnnouncerAssault.uax

var GameObject_EnergyCore EC;


function bool IsRelevant( Pawn Instigator, bool bAliveCheck )
{
Local PlayerReplicationInfo PRI;

PRI = Instigator.PlayerReplicationInfo;
if ( IsRelevant2( Instigator, bAliveCheck )
&& (PRI != None) && (PRI.HasFlag != None) && PRI.HasFlag.IsA('GameObject_EnergyCore') )
return true;

return false;
}

function bool IsRelevant2( Pawn P, bool bAliveCheck )
{
if ( !IsActive() || !UnrealMPGameInfo(Level.Game).CanDisableObjective( Self ) )
return false;

if ( !ClassIsChildOf(P.Class, ConstraintPawnClass) )
return false;

Instigator = FindInstigator( P );
if ( (Instigator.GetTeam() == None) || (Instigator.GetTeam().TeamIndex != DefenderTeamIndex) )
return false;

if ( bAliveCheck )
{
if ( Instigator.Health < 1 || Instigator.bDeleteMe || !Instigator.IsPlayerPawn() )
return false;
}

if ( bBotOnlyObjective && (PlayerController(Instigator.Controller) != None) )
return false;

return true;
}

function DisableObjective(Pawn Instigator)
{
local PlayerReplicationInfo PRI;
local GameObject_EnergyCore EnergyCore;

PRI = Instigator.PlayerReplicationInfo;

if ( !IsActive() || PRI == None || PRI.HasFlag == None || !PRI.HasFlag.IsA('GameObject_EnergyCore') )
return;

PRI.Team.Score += 1.0;
EnergyCore = GameObject_EnergyCore(PRI.HasFlag);
EnergyCore.ClearHolder();
EnergyCore.GotoState('Home');
EnergyCore.SendHome();
EnergyCore.HomeBase.bDisabled = false;
EnergyCore.HomeBase.SetActive(true);
//AnnounceScore(PRI.Team.TeamIndex);
//ASGameInfo(Level.Game).RespawnPlayer( Instigator.Controller, false );
}

And its actor properties:

ProximityObj_Actor_1of2.jpg

ProximityObj_Actor_2of2.jpg

Normally an announcer would announce the score after delivering the objective but as you can see at the end of the code I commented that part out because I wanted to put another sound for after delivering the object.
I then tried to set my custom sound inside the actor properties ('Announcer_DisabledObjective').
As it turns out the sound is not played when delivering the object. I did some further tests and it looks like that the custom objective isn't triggering an event at all. But why? I don't see a problem in the actor code, so why is the objective not triggering an event or any sounds?

PS: the sound works fine, it was coded like the rest of my sound files which work perfectly fine.


As always, thanks in advance for helping me out.
Greets, Dave

[DaveTheBlaze]

Update:

I solved my first problem by exporting the static mesh out of the editor and import it to Blender, rotating it and importing it back to the editor.
I didn't even know there was a way to export meshes out of the editor into a readable format.

I'm still struggling with my 2nd problem.
Does anyone know why the objective doesn't trigger an event when achieving it?

Or can anyone tell me how to script a code to trigger an event manually from inside the code itself?

Greets, Dave