Spawn Point help

#1 I suggest checking out the aiPlayer.cs script in the starter.fps example.

The function AIManager::spawn(%this) should point you in the right direction.
It allows you to spawn an AI player on a named path.

#2 Hey Bill. How would i go about getting this function executed when the game starts? This is the problem im having, i cant get that function to execute unless i type it in the console. Do i put it somewhere in game.cs?

#3 maybe i could set a marker and point the spawn to the marker, and place it in the on level loaded fnction in game.cs

#4 Look for

// Start the AIManager
   new ScriptObject(AIManager) {};
   MissionCleanup.add(AIManager);
   AIManager.think();

It should be located in TGE_1_5_2\example\starter.fps\server\scripts\game.cs in function startGame().

If it is not there then added it to the end of that function and make sure

exec("./aiPlayer.cs");

is in the onServerCreated() function.

If you step through the AIManager code starting at AIManager.think you should get an idea of how a Aiplayer is created.

AIManager has only 2 functions. AIManager.think and AIManager.spawn.

AIManager.think simple checks to see if the aiplayer is an object in the game. If not, it uses AIManager.spawn to crates a new AIplayer with

%player = AIPlayer::spawnOnPath("Kork","MissionGroup/Paths/Path1");

Which takes 2 arguments, "Kork" and "MissionGroup/Paths/Path1". The first one assigns the name to the AIplayer and the second tells it which path to spawn on and then start to follow that path.
It also mount a weapon and adds some ammo to the AIplayer.

If the AIplayer exist it schedules another AIManager.think to run in about 1/2 a second.
So if you wanted to put some logic to your AIplayer AIManager.think would be a good place to start.


Sorry it took so long to reply. My real life keeps getting in the way of my fun.

#5 wow thanks for the reply :) I cant get anything to spawn though. Here what i have set for the path function

function AIManager::spawn(%this)
{
%player = AIPlayer::spawnOnPath("Kork","path");
%player.followPath("path",-1);
%player.mountImage(CrossbowImage,0);
%player.setInventory(CrossbowAmmo,1000);
return %player;
}

#6 well i can get him to spawn in console with
%player = AIPlayer::spawnOnPath("Kork",path);

#7 http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/15961

that resourced work good for me. Sets up spawn points. Im gonna build upon it