monster_spawn function?

[ceriux]

yes im making a wave based mod for my own use, but the problem iv come across is this. i cant get it to work! i tried doing if (wave == x) {monster_army} this obviously doesn't work. so iv been trying to use e = spawn(); and in monster_army i set entity = soldier; . but i think this just gave me an error when trying to call soldier = spawn(); from my monster_spawn function. what am i doing wrong? what do i need to do to fix it?

[Baker]

DMSP is a mod that spawns monsters in deathmatch maps, which is why it is called DMSP. (Deathmatch single player). http://strlen.com/maps/dmsp/index.html

Back story done, continuing ... this mod spawns monsters out of thin air.

1) dmsp.qc thread: viewtopic.php?t=2587 where hondobondo shares dmsp.qc which I guess he got from Aardappel.
2) This .qc file is in the download here: http://www.moddb.com/members/hondobondo ... collection

[andrewj]

[Ace12GA]

I wrote some code that semi randomizes the monster spawns for soldiers, dogs, and enforcers, in single player maps. Its in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4776

Essentially I used some logic to determine where near an existing spawn I could spawn a monster, and randomly picked how many to spawn. It is straight forward enough, and effective.

[ceriux]

thanks for the info guys ill be sure to look into it all.

[ceriux]

so basically i have to make a selectspawnpoint for my monsters. similar to the one for the player. then dependent on the wave tell it to spawn one? thats okay, but what if i wanted to spawn 3 or 4 of one monster or 2 of one and 3 of another?

[Ace12GA]

[ceriux]

so, creating a wave based monster spawner is seriously this indepth? it seems like it should be easier... ugh my qc is rusty again..

also im not sure if iv seen qc that uses while? and why do you need a random number?

also found , going to look through it as i try to understand your code. just to see if its any similar so i can compare and learn something.

and does anyone think it would be easier to adapt something like this to my purpose? instead of spawning a bot that acts like a monster actually use it to spawn my monsters? http://quakewiki.net/archives/aicafe/tu ... tutor9.htm

[Ace12GA]

I used random just to create a certain degree of randomness to how many of each monster is spawned. It was purely an example. Yes, qc can use while loops. The id code does it, I do it, and it works quite nicely. It would be insanely hard to do a lot of things without a looping structure or two.

[ajay]

My current mod, which is basically a wave gametype, cunningly hidden in a story, has avoided all this spawning malarky while I've been testing and just used teleporting monsters. It can't really stay like that, as it gets bigger and more complicated. This code is properly helpful, though, being a control freak with a 'story' to tell, I'll not be randomising

[frag.machine]

[ceriux]

well, when i get my code bug free. ill post the src up.

[ceriux]

[ceriux]

okay in attempting to make my wave coding easier, i tried setting soldiers back to 0 at the beginning of a new round, which causes a problem like the one above where craploads of monsters keep spawn and continuously explode... how can i do this with out this problem?

[goldenboy]