Time for action – Experiments with Actors as variables

For this experiment we're going to bring back our old friend the AwesomeActor. We'll use him as a variable in our AwesomePlayerController .

1. For this experiment we'll need AwesomeActor to be visible, so let's make sure our default properties are set up for that. Our AwesomeActor class should look like this:

   class AwesomeActor extends Actor;
   
   defaultproperties
   {
       Begin Object Class=SpriteComponent Name=Sprite
           Sprite=Texture2D'EditorResources.S_NavP'
       End Object
       Components.Add(Sprite)
   }

   Since we'll be spawning AwesomeActor during gameplay we don't need it to be placeable, and we're not going to do anything more with it once it's spawned so we don't need the PostBeginPlay function for now.

2. In our AwesomePlayerController, we're going to use the function that's called when we click the left mouse button to fire, called StartFire . Let's add that to our class:

   exec function StartFire( optional byte FireModeNum )
   {
       super.StartFire...