Rpg Respawning Monsters! Help Plz

07-28-2004, 07:50 PM	#1
HomerTheDragoon	I Can Not Figure It Out I Think I Have Most Of It Can Some Just Lay It Out To Me? :(

07-28-2004, 07:53 PM	#2
HomerTheDragoon	sry i didnt mean to doouble post i didnt relize it posted the first time cuz i was still in the new thread screen

07-28-2004, 08:18 PM

bur

Say you have an area that spawns goblins create a region over the area and create this trigger:

Code:

Event: Every 60 seconds (or however long you want respawn interval)
Condition: (Number of units in (units in (*Your Region))) Equal to 0
Action: Create 6 Goblins for Neutral Hostile

this will prevent monsters to respawn when hero is in the region also. And it won't let monsters get stacked up and keep respawning.

07-28-2004, 08:52 PM

HomerTheDragoon

Quote:

Originally Posted by bur

Say you have an area that spawns goblins create a region over the area and create this trigger:

Code:

Event: Every 60 seconds (or however long you want respawn interval)
Condition: (Number of units in (units in (*Your Region))) Equal to 0
Action: Create 6 Goblins for Neutral Hostile

this will prevent monsters to respawn when hero is in the region also. And it won't let monsters get stacked up and keep respawning.

i dont want it like that i want it so once a guy dies in a unit group (mayb) then wait depending on how high level he is then create 1 Spawn_unit its a array i was trying somtin wit looping and integer A but i dont think i got it right I want it ot be like dark lineage that respawning type

but if i cant figure this wat out i will do it that way...

07-28-2004, 11:46 PM

Milkman

Your answer is a monster array, paired with a few variables and some loops.

Here's an example:
First the Array for the monsters:

Code:

Initialize Monster Spawners
    Events
    Conditions
    Actions
        Set NumSpawners = 5
        -------- Note that 'frequency' controls how often the monster spawns. --------
        -------- 1 frequency is 0.5 seconds.  4 frequency is 2 seconds.  8 frequency is 
        -------- 4 seconds 
        -------- By default it is 4 (2 seconds)  --------
        For each (Integer A) from 0 to NumSpawners, do (Set Frequencies[(Integer A)] = 8)
        For each (Integer A) from 0 to NumSpawners, do (Set MaxMonsters[(Integer A)] = 7)
        For each (Integer A) from 0 to NumSpawners, do (Set EnableSpawners[(Integer A)] = True)
        Set MonsterSpawners[0] = Gnoll Hut 0050 <gen>
        Set SpawnTypes[0] = Murloc Tiderunner
        Set EnableSpawners[0] = False
        Set MonsterSpawners[1] = Gnoll Hut 2 0046 <gen>
        Set SpawnTypes[1] = Murloc Tiderunner
        Set EnableSpawners[1] = False
        Set MonsterSpawners[2] = High Elven Farm 0053 <gen>
        Set SpawnTypes[2] = Gnoll Poacher
        Set EnableSpawners[2] = False
        Set MonsterSpawners[3] = High Elven Farm 0051 <gen>
        Set SpawnTypes[3] = Gnoll Poacher
        Set EnableSpawners[3] = False
        Set MonsterSpawners[4] = Forest Troll Hut 0041 <gen>
        Set SpawnTypes[4] = Satyr
        Set EnableSpawners[4] = False
        Set MonsterSpawners[5] = Nerubian Ziggurat 0080 <gen>
        Set SpawnTypes[5] = Ghoul
        Set EnableSpawners[5] = False
                -------- Set initial frequencies --------
        For each (Integer A) from 0 to NumSpawners, do (Set InitialFrequencies[(Integer A)] = Frequencies[(Integer A)])
        Trigger - Run Initialise Monster Groups <gen> (ignoring conditions)
        Trigger - Turn on Monster Spawn Sweep <gen>
        Trigger - Turn on Monster Spawn Death <gen>

Numspawners is the total amount of spawningpoints. Maxmonsters is the maximum amount of monsters on one spot simultanioulsy.
This next trigger makes it so that all the triggers won't have to check all the time:

Code:

Enable Spawn Set 1
    Events
        Unit - A unit enters StartMonsterSpawners1 <gen>
    Conditions
        ((Owner of (Entering unit)) is in Playersgroup) Equal to True
    Actions
        Set EnableSpawners[0] = True
        Set EnableSpawners[1] = True
        Set EnableSpawners[2] = True
        Set EnableSpawners[3] = True

For each section, of spawnpoints you can have a region that enables this when a unit enters, or several regions since for events, only one has to be true.

Next Trigger:

Code:

Initialise Monster Groups
    Events
    Conditions
    Actions
        -------- I only trust 'set variable' to initialise an Array type --------
        For each (Integer A) from 0 to NumSpawners, do (Trigger - Run Set Up One Monster Group <gen> (ignoring conditions))

Another trigger, theese tow can be combined however, blizzard thinks that this way is better, don't know why.

Code:

Set Up One Monster Group
    Events
    Conditions
    Actions
        Unit - Create 1 SpawnTypes[(Integer A)] for Player 12 (Brown) at (Position of MonsterSpawners[(Integer A)]) facing Default building facing (270.0) degrees
        Set MonsterGroups[(Integer A)] = (Last created unit group)

What theese two does is that they create the initial monsters. If you preplace all the units, the map can become quite laggy when editing.

The initialize respsawn trigger:

Code:

Monster Spawn Sweep
    Events
        Time - Every 0.50 seconds of game time
    Conditions
    Actions
        For each (Integer A) from 0 to NumSpawners, do (If (((MonsterSpawners[(Integer A)] is alive) Equal to True) and ((Number of units in MonsterGroups[(Integer A)]) Less than MaxMonsters[(Integer A)])) then do (Trigger - Run Spawn One Monster <gen> (ignoring conditions)) else do (Do nothing))

Here's the trigger for respawning:

Code:

Spawn One Monster
    Events
    Conditions
    Actions
        -------- Addition for turning them on and off --------
        If (EnableSpawners[(Integer A)] Equal to False) then do (Skip remaining actions) else do (Do nothing)
        -------- I spawn one monster every time 'frequency' gets to zero --------
        Set Frequencies[(Integer A)] = (Frequencies[(Integer A)] - 1)
        If (Frequencies[(Integer A)] Not equal to 0) then do (Skip remaining actions) else do (Do nothing)
        -------- I restore the frequency --------
        Set Frequencies[(Integer A)] = InitialFrequencies[(Integer A)]
        Unit - Create 1 SpawnTypes[(Integer A)] for Player 12 (Brown) at (Position of MonsterSpawners[(Integer A)]) facing (Random real number between 0.00 and 360.00) degrees
        Unit Group - Add all units of (Last created unit group) to MonsterGroups[(Integer A)]
        -------- We could even play a special effect, here. --------
        Special Effect - Create a special effect attached to the origin of (Last created unit) using Abilities\Spells\Undead\AnimateDead\AnimateDeadTarget.mdl

This trigger just removes the units that die from the unit group.

Code:

Monster Spawn Death
    Events
        Unit - A unit owned by Player 12 (Brown) Dies
    Conditions
    Actions
        For each (Integer A) from 0 to NumSpawners, do (If (((Dying unit) is in MonsterGroups[(Integer A)]) Equal to True) then do (Unit Group - Remove (Dying unit) from MonsterGroups[(Integer A)]) else do (Do nothing))

That would work fine, note, all thees triggers come from the blizzard rpg Warchasers. It's always a good idea to look in there if you have a problem.
I wont give you variable types and so on as you can just CnP this from Warchasersm i've done enough writing for some time.

Hope i helped you out.

07-29-2004, 01:35 AM	#6
HomerTheDragoon	THX MAN UMM 1 question is this like dynamic spawning?

07-29-2004, 01:59 PM	#7
Milkman	What do you mean by Dynamic? If theres 10 monsters, no more monsters will spawn, if that's whay you mean.

07-29-2004, 07:02 PM

HomerTheDragoon

Quote:

Originally Posted by Milkman

What do you mean by Dynamic? If theres 10 monsters, no more monsters will spawn, if that's whay you mean.

i mean like i want the guys to be there the whole time not if i enter a location they start spawning i want em to spawn always like dark lineage

u know wat that is?

07-29-2004, 10:01 PM	#9
horusrogue	For a great example, proabably the base for the responses here, look at the Warchasers mpoa that came in the scneario folder of the original ROC, i still use roc, not tft, so it may not have been shipped with tft..but if it was, then look throuhg the triggers in it: a great way to learn most low lever and mid level triggering solutions -Fellow mapper/triggerer -Horus