Changing HUD at runtime based on actor type?

Development Programming & Scripting UI
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So this is a similar to a question I asked recently, but different enough that I deemed it okay to be a separate question.

Link to my other question

I was wondering, if I have a playercontroller jump from possessing actorA (ground unit) that has a certain HUD to actorB (air unit) that has a different HUD, how do I go about destroying actorA’s HUD and instantiating actorB’s HUD? How do I know what type of HUD to instantiate? Should each actor have a static CreateHUD function? Do I just not understand how HUDs work!?

Thanks a lot all, I hope someone can help :slight_smile:

-Austin

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I’d have a base class called UnitBase. UnitBase has a property that holds the class of the hud to spawn when possessed. Then you call OldHud->DestroyActor() and SpawnActor() for your new hud.

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So when possession happens, the controller will destroy the old hud and spawn the new by grabbing the hud class from the actor it’s possessing?

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Not automatically. You’ll need to hook that part up. I was talking about how I’d do it :slight_smile:

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haha, yeah… I know. I was just making sure my logic was correct. But somewhere inside the Possess(inActor) function I could do this… ???

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You could override the posses function, call the base version, and then do your code.