Time for action – Adding a Component to an Actor

For these experiments, we'll go back to our AwesomeGame classes, specifically our AwesomeActor. We'll take a look at how to add and remove Components and how to manipulate them through our functions.

1. We'll need a blank map for our experiments, so open AwesomeTestMap in the editor and delete all of the Kismet, AwesomeEnemySpawners, the look target, and the weapon spawner. All that should be left is the ground, the player start, and the lights.

2. Save the map and close the editor.

3. Open AwesomeActor.uc in ConTEXT.

4. Components are found under Object in the class tree. The one we're most concerned with for this is ActorComponents, which is the one that will be used most when working with UnrealScript. We'll start by adding a SpriteComponent to a new class we'll create, AwesomeComponentActor . SpriteComponents are most commonly used to give the Actor a physical representation in the editor. First let's create a new file called AwesomeComponentActor...