UFO:Alien Invasion

Development => Mapping => Topic started by: tilli on June 02, 2011, 11:27:14 am

Title: randomspawn in maps
Post by: tilli on June 02, 2011, 11:27:14 am

as randomspawn now seems to work without problem, I would like to integrate this in several maps.
I already tried it in fightercrash.map and the result in my opinion is very good.
I would like to tackle some other maps with this, e.g. +industrial, +oriental or +ufocrash.
Would that be ok, or is somebody currently doing major work on that?

tilli

Title: Re: randomspawn in maps
Post by: MCR on June 02, 2011, 11:43:30 am

I have no problem with that ;)

Title: Re: randomspawn in maps
Post by: Kildor on June 02, 2011, 03:06:07 pm

can you explain, what «randomspawn» means exactly?

Title: Re: randomspawn in maps
Post by: Mattn on June 02, 2011, 03:38:59 pm

it's fine to activate it imo - if the map is suitable for this at least

Title: Re: randomspawn in maps
Post by: tilli on June 02, 2011, 07:49:12 pm

Quote from: Kildor

can you explain, what «randomspawn» means exactly?

randomspawn is activated on a map under worldspawn and has the effect of randomly assigning the actors to different starting positions. So you put in for example 10 starting positions for the aliens. If the map now starts with 4 aliens, then these 4 aliens will be randomly distributed between the 10 starting positions, resulting in different starting configurations every time you play the map.

tilli

Title: Re: randomspawn in maps
Post by: Kildor on June 03, 2011, 03:56:52 am

nice. And this work only for aliens, or phalanx will be under this flag too?

If aliens only, it will be nice to activate this for the maps.

Title: Re: randomspawn in maps
Post by: tilli on June 03, 2011, 12:33:26 pm

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And this work only for aliens, or phalanx will be under this flag too?

Either both or none.
But for Phalanx that is not much of a problem, it only effects, who is standing on what side of the dropship.
For the aliens that results in being anywhere, if enough spawnpoints are available.  

Title: Re: randomspawn in maps
Post by: Schilcote on July 16, 2011, 01:52:27 pm

It might be interesting to have a sort of "grinder" mode in Skirmish for these randomspawn maps where the aliens keep spawning until all your soldiers are dead.

Title: Re: randomspawn in maps
Post by: geever on July 16, 2011, 10:05:57 pm

Quote from: Schilcote on July 16, 2011, 01:52:27 pm

It might be interesting to have a sort of "grinder" mode in Skirmish for these randomspawn maps where the aliens keep spawning until all your soldiers are dead.

pff... Another child of DOOM && Quake..... :(

-geever