UnrealShare.ShieldBelt.TeamNum

[Barbie]

Is there any explanation why UnrealShare.ShieldBelt.TeamNum is set to 3 when Level.Game.bTeamGame==false?

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class ShieldBelt extends Pickup;
...
function PickupFunction(Pawn Other)
{
	MyEffect = Spawn(class'ShieldBeltEffect', Owner,,Owner.Location, Owner.Rotation); 
	MyEffect.Mesh = Owner.Mesh;
	MyEffect.DrawScale = Owner.Drawscale;

	if ( Level.Game.bTeamGame && (Other.PlayerReplicationInfo != None) )
		TeamNum = Other.PlayerReplicationInfo.Team;
	else
		TeamNum = 3;
	SetEffectTexture();
}

function SetEffectTexture()
{
	if ( TeamNum != 3 )
		MyEffect.ScaleGlow = 0.5;
	else
		MyEffect.ScaleGlow = 1.0;
	MyEffect.Texture = TeamFireTextures[TeamNum];
	MyEffect.LowDetailTexture = TeamTextures[TeamNum];
}

[Buggie]

Yes. If game not team game, shieldbelt must be gold color. 3 team is gold team.

[Barbie]

So, reason is just the color?

[Buggie]

Yes. It happen in some other places as well I guess.

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

Indeed. The ShieldBelt was made with gold color in mind though originally the effect looked a bit different. And before the gold effect it had actually an animated effect of when the player would get hit (in late 1997 beta versions), the shieldbelt would spawn an effect of a globe encompassing the player made of small particles. This effect I reused for the ImplantGun implementation for Unreal PSX Rework. The altfire of the gun, when it creates that pushing away effect...that what is spawned is actually a smaller version of the old shieldbelt effect. This thing would play each time player took damage.

In earlier even released versions of Unreal, like the Vanilla 200 version, it even lacked teamcolor skins which was complained about so Epic changed it. Because if someone had a shieldbelt you had no idea what team he was on.